Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 17 April 2019 are:   

Sienna – a Grade 6 student at Ocean Grove Primary School who is doing the Rotary Award 2019. Sienna joins us as part of her environmental segment of the award and for experience on radio. She is inspired by her schools actions on recycling and after attending The Sustainable Show at Queenscliff wants to speak about the actions we can do.

Michael Strickland, project manager at WM Waste, who are doing hard rubbish collection from 17 Councils in Victoria. Listen to the story of how WM Waste achieve a recycling rate of approximately 80 per cent. They are currently trialling the use of electric powered collection trucks, and Michael touches on the use of solar power for industry. This video helps demonstrate the procedure they take to achieve this recovery result from hardwaste.

Fiona Armstrong, founder of the Climate and Health Alliance, informs us about the alliance of health groups banding together to highlight the effects of health with climate breakdown. Their open letter to the federal election candidates can be found below on this page. 

Barry Mud, Irish designer and builder, comments and explains his observation on the typical Australian house.

“We need to let the government know climate change is not just about power prices and mining. It is about people’s fundamental right to good health and well-being and that the health and economic cost of inaction far outweighs the cost of action…”~ Fiona Armstrong, Climate and Health Alliance

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Fiona Armstrong: Climate change is a health concern