Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 24 April 2019 are:         

Singer, songwriter and musician Andrea Robertson lives on the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria. She is a strong supporter of sustainability and sings her own composition ‘Beautiful World’. Andrea was the recipient of the 2017 Queenscliff Emerging Artists grant, and this has enabled her to complete an album which will launch on 17 May 2019.

Colin Mockett’s Global View this week includes Sir David Attenborough’s recent BBC documentary about climate change, ‘Climate Change – The Facts’, and Colin’s recent trip to the Canberra Folk Festival where he learned about a unique methodology of voting in the upcoming federal election.

As Labor promises to invest – we say waste – $1,500,000,000 of taxpayers money into new gas projects in the north of Australia, professor Melissa Haswell from Queensland University of Technology, who is also a member of Doctors for the Environment Australia, explains why this is such an incredibly bad idea, not only because of the climate implications but also because of the public health impacts, and this can be said about offshore gas processing just as much as the methane- and groundwater-polluting fracking for shale gas on land.

Fatima Kidwai from Climate Leaders explains how a group of young school strikers are supporting independent candidates with climate action policies. We talked with her during the Sustainable Living Festival in February 2019.

Sustainable People: Lene Foghsgaard continues her series on sustainable people she has met in Melbourne and who have started cutting down on meat, or live completely without it. She talks with Tina Zenou, whose family no longer eat meat. “My hope is to inspire us all to eat more green, which can reduce our individual carbon footprints by several tonnes per year,” says Lene.

Brian Paterson from Urban Systems in Vancouver,