Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 28 August 2019 are:

Alex Marshall, who has lead a year-long community campaign to get Surf Coast Shire Council to declare a climate emergency declaration. The petition she had tabled with more than 1,000 signatures was on the agenda of the Council’s 27 August meeting, and there was joy and loud applause in the chamber when the motion for a climate emergency declaration was eventually passed.

Ben Shaw, owner of Ben Shaw Permaculture, who is featured in the seventh episode of ‘Show Me How’, today about food production in the back yard.

Dr Mark Randall, counsellor and psychotherapist who is organising the event World Heart of Connection Day in Geelong’s Botanic Gardens on Wednesday 4 September at 12:30pm.

We play Louis Armstrong’s ‘It’s a Wonderful World’, and Sting’s song ‘Fragile Planet’ from 2007

“Join the revolution. Food is a great connector, and people are coming together.”~ Ben Shaw, permaculture trainer

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The Guardian’s weekly carbon count

How good is Australia?Responding to #ClimateEmergency with #ClimateVandalismAustralia's carbon emissions continue to rise to new seven-year highshttps://t.co/VxQYPMyTtd via @adamlmorton pic.twitter.com/4xpnoSGkSV— Prof Ray Wills (@ProfRayWills) August 31, 2019

Great Barrier Reef outlook very poor, Australia says(In many ways it’s an analogue for our earth. We can see her decline, we know how to save her,