Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 1 April 2020 are Brad Homewood from Extinction Rebellion, CEO2 Coral Bleach of Billionaires United Mining Services (BUMS) and her attorney, Lignite Pitt QC of Bigend & Town Solicitors, and Tim Buckley who is the Director of Energy Finance Studies, Australasia at the Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

In Denmark, Lene talks with sustainable investment consultant Silja Nyboe Andersen from Merkur Bank in Denmark. And we round the hour off with a beautiful and incredibly popular corona-poem which Riya Sokol has shared with the world from Costa Rica.

A listener, Petra Goerschel, calls in with an idea to start a tree planting project, where a tree will be planted every time a child is born. In Geelong, that would mean 2,500 new trees coming to life to start cleaning the air every year.

Colin Mockett’s World View is high on a new report which highlights the fact that coal is now in decline world-wide and renewable energy has crossed the line becoming the cheapest way to generate electricity.

Till next week, stay tuned in The Tunnel where you can still be the difference.

“This is a time to radically re-think the way we live and function as a society.”~ Friends of the Earth Australia, ‘Covid-19: Blueprint for Climate Justice’

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Acknowledgement

We at The Sustainable Hour would like to pay our respect to the traditional custodians of the land on which we are broadcasting, the Wathaurong People, and pay our respect to their elders, past, present and future.

The traditional owners lived in harmony with the land. They nurtured it and thrived in often harsh conditions for millenia before they were invaded. Their land was then stolen from them – it wasn’t ceeded. It is becoming more and more obvious that, if we are to survive the climate emergency we are facing, we have much to learn from their land management pr...