Today we are launching the fifth episode of our ‘Show me how’ video series on YouTube – which is about energy. The title of the episode is “Transitioning towards energy freedom”. ⚡️

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 14 August 2019 are:Glen Rodgers, architect and director of Zero C – who is featured in the video and has decades of experience with designing and building houses that are carbon neutral.

Trent McCarthy, councillor for Rucker Ward in Darebin City Council – about the launch of a new alliance of the now 35 Australian councils that have declared a climate emergency, called Climate Emergency Australia. An international platform is on its way too.Alex Houlston from Boom Power, formerly Energy for the People – about their launch of a new solar-battery-community platform on the Internet called BoomPower which is about making it easier for all of us to buy solar and batteries.

Since we are quickly approaching Greta Thunberg‘s anniversary for her extraordinatry entrance on the world stage of climate activism – she started her school strike for climate last year on 20 August – we play quite a few statements of hers in the radio show today – excerpts of speeches she has given where she calls for adults to wake up and join the striking school kids on 20 September.                                

We play Montaigne’s hit song ‘Ready’ which is a call to action on the climate emergency – see more below. And we round the hour off with our Missy Higgins favourite: ‘The Difference’.

“’Crisis’ is throw your hands up. ‘Emergency’ is roll your sleeves up.”~ Rachel Reese, Mayor, Nelson City Council, New Zealand

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