Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 16 October 2019 is Mike Lawrence, who co-founded The Sustainable Hour together with Mik in October 2013 …some 289 radio shows and six years ago.We open the hour with a report from the streets of Geelong, where Extinction Rebellion Geelong organised a ‘Die-In’ on Saturday 12 October.

Director Susanna Bevilacqua tells us about what will happen at the Moral Fairground‘s next Ethical Enterprise Conference under the headline ‘Collaboration for Change’ and with the annual Ethical Enterprise Awards – all happening in Melbourne on Monday and Tuesday 28 and 29 October.

Adam Bandt, member of Parliament for The Greens, posted an optimistic video on Facebook on 15 October about how close the Greens were to convince a majority of the Australian Parliament that it should declare a climate emergency – only three more votes were needed for the proposal to go through, which calls for more advocacy work – in particular among members of the Liberal party – in the coming weeks and months.

At almost the same time, Mark Butler, member of Parliament for the Labor party, announced on Twitter that he was also proposing Labor’s own climate emergency declaration motion.

We play an excerpt from The Project‘s significant interview with former Liberal leader Dr John Hewson telling it as it is with the Australian government’s inaction on climate, and former ABC presenter Kerry O’Brien‘s making a similar sharp comment about the media’s role in this on ABC’s Q&A

We also have a listen to Ugandan #FridaysForFuture activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye‘s emotional speech at the C40 World Mayors Summit 2019 in Copenhagen.

“If we were in the business of saving drowning people, sooner or later someone has to go upstream and find out who is throwing them in.”~ Mike Lawrence, guest in The Sustainable Hour

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