Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 29 May 2019 are:

Lorna Martin – Permaculture Geelong co-founderLachlan Gordon – Friends of the Barwon, andCameron Steele – People for A Living Moorabool

We also play a clip from a press meeting in Heathrow Airport, where four members of Extinction Rebellion announced the group is going to block traffic in the airport with drones for a day, a speech held by UN General-Secretary Antonio Guterres, when he visited New Zealand, and thanked the country for its efforts to combat climate change.

“Koalas are the canaries in the coal mine, and we are finding their population is collapsing.”~ Deborah Tabart, Chair of the Australian Koala Foundation

The world needs a climate INTERVENTION.If we do not #GetToTheRoots of the systems of oppression that caused climate change, we will not survive.@ThisIsZeroHour is hosting a summit in Miami tackling these issues.REGISTER FOR THE SUMMIT JULY 12- 14: https://t.co/1gHQ6ggIsK pic.twitter.com/brVC8Rq4q4— Jamie Margolin (@Jamie_Margolin) May 28, 2019

“The next step is: Get out and plant trees.”“Geelong has been talking about greening their city for the past 10 years. Part of the Green Spine has been completed, but nothing else has changed. We have the resources and the people to make it happen, so what is stopping us?”~ Lorna Martin, Geelong permaculturalist

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“I just want the future to be good…”

“2040 should be seen by everyone &ndash it’s a wonderful, inspirational film!”

~ ‎Amanda Jamal‎ posted this comment on The Sustainable Hour’s Facebook page on 29 May at 11:30

A country so vulnerable to drought and wildfire, to floods and tropical storms and sheer heat, voting for coal: that’s turkeys voting for Christmas. https://t.