In The Sustainable Hour on 12 June 2019, we start with an unusual roar at the city hall, organised by 76-year-old champion climate activist Caroline Danaher.

We take a closer look at the idea that businesses also – not just councils and governments – can declare a climate emergency and take action accordingly. Two UK businesses have done it. We hear from one of the CEOs, Dale Vince, about why and how his company has joined the declaration movement, and we talk with our guests in the studio about it, who all three work to spread the message and methods of the Transition Street movement in Geelong, taking concrete action on the emissions crisis at a personal and very local level:

Monica Winston, co-ordinator of Transition Street Geelong, together with the group’s events manager Janina Lear, and DIY and renewables enthusiast Derek Ryan, who will be speaking at the organisation’s first-coming event, ‘Keeping Warm This Winter – easy ways to a comfortable home and smaller energy bills’.

Over the long-distance phone, we talk with Hanna Doole, 19, who camps at the ‘climate action front line’ near the Adani coal mine in Queensland, and we play an excerpt from the new film ‘ReAct – Climate Code Red’ which features interviews with other #StopAdani activists. We also play a clip from ABC’s Q&A on 10 June 2018, where a good question was asked to and answered by Atlassian co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes.

Colin Mockett is on emissions outlook today, Jackie Matthews is mostly busy behind the buttons and faders of the console, while Anthony Gleeson and Mik Aidt are your hosts of the hour.

“We try to apply logic to the problem.”~ Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, tech leader and clean energy champion

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