“Yes, I know we need a system change rather than individual change. But you can not have one without the other.”~ Greta Thunberg, Swedish teenager and climate activist

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 4 September 2019 are:

Libby Coker, Labor Member of the Australian Parliament for Corangamite, about why she has published media releases in support of the climate emergency declaration in Surf Coast Shire Council and of the school children who will be going on strike on 20 September. Our question to her is whether she is going to extend that call to the adults, in particular the parents, that they should be joining their kids?

Phil Baulch, Belmont Heights Transition Streets in Geelong, who is starring as one of the 30 members of the Transition Streets movement in Geelong, who are featured in our ‘Show me how’ Youtube-series. Today, we premiere the eight episode, entitled ‘Transitioning the way we consume’

Abbey Sweeney, Chiara Eden and Taylor Sadeghi from Sacred Heart College, who organise the Fight for the Bight paddle out at Cosy Corner in Torquay on Saturday 14 September 2019 at 12pm. 

Mary Stringer, president of Transition Australia, who spruiks the Transition Australia Victorian Convergence which takes place in Melbourne on Sunday 15 September. 

Today’s ‘Sustainable People’ episode by Lene Outzen Foghsgaard is inspired by a study from a Danish university which claimed that not only red meat produces a large carbon footprint, but also coffee, sweets and alcohol. Lene interviews Vibeke Lund, who is a health coach, Ann Kathrine, who spent a year in Melbourne and loves coffee and Anna, who is a teenager, representing a Danish youth that drinks twice as much alcohol as other young people in Europe. What are we ready to say no to for the sake of the climate?   

“Oh no, I thought, this one is a tough one. I have to find out what people think about this. Later it turned out that the study had been strongly influenced by the meat industry, so I only refer to it as an inspiration for the more general discussion about which sacrifises we are willing to make if it would be better for the climate. Because, no matter what, you and me together with billions of others have to cut down on consumption in general. Are we willing to do that?” ~ Lene Outzen Foghsgaard in ‘Sustainable People’

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“Say no to consumerist greed.”~ Pope Francis,