Guest in the studio: Heinz Dahl, managing director, NexTgen Wind. Pre-recorded interview: Per Bernard, co-founding member of Hepburn Wind. Read more on www.climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour54

In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 26 November 2012 we have a guest from New South Wales: professor and energy expert Mark Diesendorf, author of the book 'Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change'. Mark Diesendorf is one of Australia's leading sustainable energy analysts, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. More info, videos and links on www.climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour53

In the Sustainable Hour studio: Christine Couzens, Labor candidate for Geelong - Doug Mann, independent candidate for Geelong - Sarah Hathway, Socialist Alliance candidate for Geelong - Heinz Dahl, managing director of NexTgen Wind --- Liberal candidate Paula Kontelj and Australian Country Alliance candidate Tony Leen were invited as well, but did not reply our invitation or our questionnaire --- On the phone: Bruce Lindsay, The Greens candidate for Geelong --- Pre-recorded audio interviews with: Lisa Ashdowne, The Greens candidate for South Barwon - Geoff Carr, director of Ecology Australia - Professor Mark Diesendorf, renewable energy analyst --- Speech excerpt: Peter Bakker, president of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

State Election special - Clean Energy Week in Geelong - G20 meeting and how the world sees Australia. More info on http://climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour51

Change will come from the ground up. On 29 November 2014, residents in Victoria will be voting on who should be their leaders in government. In this and the following Sustainable Hours, we look into what this means. Today we talk with two artists about the topic: Colin Mockett who is an actor and entertainer, and Jane Kempe who is a painter and a cartoonist.

"The mainstream candidates are much too busy standing behind their leaders and having the photograph taken, or standing on street corners and giving away things, and having their photograph taken, and they aren't concerned with what I want them to be concerned with, of which the environment is front and centre. I am concerned that the environment is being largely ignored by the mainstream candidates. Instead of just all the feelgood-stuff that they have been saying, if we can get them to address the issue, we have at least done something," says Colin Mockett. He challenged two candidates in his electorate over Facebook. As Number One, he wrote, he would like to see the Anglesea power station shut down, and the anti-wind farm laws repealed. He got a reaction from both candidates.

"Change will come from the ground up. It is not going to come from the top down. Fossil fuels are literally that: they are fossils. They are out of date. So there is a will on the part of the people to take initiatives. Some politicians have misread where the electorate stands on this," says Jane Kempe. She has worked with arts projects around the world where politics meets arts, and where arts is used to create awareness and focus on the environment. "I get a great deal of satisfaction knowing that I can make a difference with my art as well, in things that I feel strongly about," she says. More info on www.climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour50

Climate morals, psychology and engagement. Scientists are telling us that the cost of inaction on climate change keeps rising every day we continue business as usual. To change this dangerous situation, we need to first understand the psychological mechanisms that make so many people shut off entirely from the whole discussion. To help us with this, we have a social psychology researcher, Dr Andrea Bunting, with us in the 49th Sustainable Hour. She is Honorary Research Fellow at Latrobe University, School of Psychological Sciences and explains about her research in the psychology behind moral attitudes to climate change. Andrea Bunting is saying: Let's speak about climate change! More about this, and about the booklet with the same title, below on this page.

We have two special reasons to celebrate in The Sustainable Hour today. First of all, this is 'Day One' in a new and greener City of Greater Geelong council. A council which now has a policy and a strategy on how to manage some of the biggest challenges we are faced with today - climate change being one of them. The 'Environment Management Strategy' was finally approved in Council on 28 October 2014, after having been two years on its way. And around 30 people had come to celebrate that moment together with the councillors. We have a report from the Council meeting, and a short statement from Councillor Andy Richards about the process which created the strategy. The other reason is that on 30 October 2014, The Sustainable Hour is one year old. We broadcasted our first show one year ago, and there are now 49 podcasts out there on the internet to show for it! - Read more: www.climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour49

"There is only one train, and that is the green train. If you are not on that train, you will be left behind on the platform," said Lars Aagard, CEO of the Danish Energy Association recently. The 48th Sustainable Hour on 22 October 2014 on 94.7 The Pulse is about things we can do to save money while at the same time taking personal action on climate change. We introduce you to Heidi Fog from Balanced Sustainability who is an expert in energy audits and who consults families, kindergartens and schools to help them save money and reduce carbon emissions. We ask her for some concrete advice on how we take action on climate change and reduce our carbon footprint. We also talk with Graeme Stockton from Surf Coast Energy Group who is the organiser of the forum 'Growth! Is Bigger Better' and who has assembled a prestigious line-up of guest speakers to talk about the big issues of the 21st century - in Torquay on 16 November 2014. And we talk with one of the Pacific Warriors, Mika, who have been spearheading a busy week of climate campaigning in Australia.

In the 47th Sustainable Hour on 15 October 2014, we report from the meeting on 14 October where Geelong Council unanimously voted to call for a permanent ban on fracking. Our guests in the studio are Mary Constance Black, artist, and Jackray Black, who is a former sustainability teacher at Centre for Sustainable Innovation at The Gordon in Geelong and a busy letter- and opinion-piece writer. More info, links and videos on www.climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour47

How can we effectively reduce our fossil fuel emissions to zero? Will we have to wait for federal politicians and negotiations in the United Nations before we can begin the transistion away from burning coal, gas and oil? Not at all! Many cities, councils, municipalities, shires and boroughs have already started that journey. The first step is to write a strategy, allocate funds, formulate the goals, and then start working on how to get there.

The Borough of Queenscliffe has already done this. And neighbouring City of Greater Geelong Council is in the process of doing it.

In the 46th Sustainable Hour on 8 October 2014 we talk with Queenscliff mayor Helene Cameron about their carbon strategy to learn what it takes to become 'carbon neutral', and we talk with Dr Quentin Farmar-Bowers, a retired researcher from Deakin University, about carbon sequestration and what we are to make of this new technology.

The 45th Sustainable Hour on 1 October 2014 reports from the UN Climate Summit in New York on 23 September 2014 and from the Gasrush Information Night in Geelong on 18 September 2014. One of three speakers at the Gasrush meeting was Ben Courtice from Friends of the Earth and Beyond Zero Emissions. We listen to his speech in full length [14:18 min], and also talk with John Miro who documented the debate for Pulse TV. Speeches from the UN Climate Summit in New York by Leonardo DiCaprio, actor [3:29], Barack Obama, President of the United States [1:15]. More info, videos and links on www.climatesafety.info/thesustainablehour45