Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 13 February 2019 are two first-time councillors of the Greater Geelong City Council: Cr Sarah Mansfield, Chair of the Environment and Sustainability Portfolio, and Cr Stephanie Asher, Chair of the Planning Portfolio. They talk about their achievements in the 15 months since election, and about what happened to the ‘Clever and Creative’ 30-year future vision’ for Geelong. Though they admit climate change is not a top agenda priority at Council meetings, they also give clear direction as to how the community holds the key to change that — if we want to.

Excerpt from the interview with Cr Mansfield and Cr Asher

“The way to make an impact is to be polite, be persistent and be organised.”
~ Stephanie Asher, Councillor, City of Greater Geelong

Colin Mockett‘s World View takes a look at the statistics on natural disasters in Australia: What is the cost?

We play a clip from the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne where Greta Thunberg was opening speaker at the Great Debate event. The songs are Prince Ea‘s ‘Man vs Earth’, and Missy Higgins‘ ‘The Difference’. More info below.
 

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BBC London’s report from the school strike for climate on Friday

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Greta spoke in Melbourne via videolink from Stockholm

Greta’s presentation at the National Sustainable Living Festival

Via a live video link from Stockholm to Melbourne, Greta Thunberg was the opening speaker at a sold-out Great Debate event at the

" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Sustainable Living Festival in Australia on 8 February 2019.

While standing in front of the Parliament in Stockholm, and with a tv-crew from BBC waiting for their turn, she appeared relaxed and smiling on the screens in a hall of a 400-person audi...