Today is yet another milestone for The Sustainable Hour team: Our show number 350. We are so grateful to all you listeners and guests who have made this possible, and we look forward to this continuing while we work for a more just, inclusive, healthy and safe climate, each finding our roles in The Climate Revolution.

In The Tunnel on 17 February 2021:

[08:47] Lucy Manne, head of 350 Australia, tells us what’s up front for the organisation this year. They will continue to target our current government’s lack of ambition to take climate seriously, especially focusing on the insanity of their apparent desire to go ahead with their so-called ‘gas-led recovery’ from Covid-19. They will be bringing their 25 local community groups along with them to stop this misguided idea, and replace it with an ambition to fund a just transition to the clean renewable energy powered world to which most of the rest of the world is transitioning.

[26:49] Dr Giselle Wilkinson, co-founder of the Sustainable Living Festival, has recently successfully completely her PhD thesis. This was done under the banner of Therapeutic Arts. Already in 2007, Giselle was a key part of the decision to run Australia’s first Global Climate Emergency Convergence. She freely acknowledges that we currently don’t have enough people who are prepared to stand up to get to where we need to be on climate. She is determined to ensure that her thesis continues to have a life and has strong ideas on how this can be achieved. She will be explaining how this can be achieved at her online book launch on Tuesday night.

[47:20] Mark Spencer, the founder of the podcast Climactic, which we have always had a strong connection with. Mark has just launched an open letter appeal to one of the biggest companies in the world. He is asking all podcasters to support this appeal to make it easier for climate podcasts to reach wider audiences. Mark gives the reasons behind this ambitious appeal and lets us all know how to support it.

[01:38] Colin Mockett‘s Global Outlook starts with an update of two climate related disasters from last year, one from the Russian mining town of Norilsk where you may recall melting permafrost caused a huge tank to topple over and pour thousands of tonnes of diesel oil into arctic waters. Authorities there have managed to contain most of the spill, but the problem is far from solved. The second update is much better news for penguin colonies on South Georgia Island as the gigantic iceberg that was heading directly for them has broken up.Colin then takes us to Europe and specifically their aviation sector with news that they have taken some responsibility for the carbon emissions they are causing by setting ...