On 25 July 2018 – a day where the National Radio News reports Greece is in a state of emergency while extreme weather ravages most of the world, while the Australian Government gladly ignores the carbon-created calamities and wants to invest in more polluting coal power – and where Plastic Free July is coming to an end, our guests in The Sustainable Hour are:

• At 1:40, Colin Mockett shares his Plastic Free Outlook with us today. At 24:00, a bonus question from Q&A about Australians’ War on Waste and government’s role in this.

• At 27:10, Alexx Stuart, founder of Low Tox Life, increases our awareness of which chemicals have been put in the products we buy, and how that awareness is good both for our physical and mental health and for the environment.

• At 35:20, we discuss ABC Radio’s encouraging news story this morning about 23-year-old Mark McVeigh who is suing his superannuation fund for allegedly failing to explain how it intends to protect his life savings from climate change.

• At 39:15, Dr Jonathan Balls, postdoctoral fellow, Australia India Institute at Melbourne University and member of New Generation Network, explains about coal-fired power plants in India currently running at 60 per cent capacity, 10,000 new solar micro-grids, which will be built in India in the next few years, and the huge opportunity for India and Australia to exchange expertise and collaborate around decentralised energy.

“The most prosperous societies of the future will also be the ones that are the most sustainable.”

~ State of Green, ‘Powering our future with sustainable energy’

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“We are all in big trouble when it comes to the subject matter of our future. But the opportunities for reconstruction and renaissance remain huge, if we can collectively wake up and act.”

~ Jeremy Leggett, author, UK solar entrepreneur

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On 23 July 2018 at 08:06, Lisé Blackgrove reviewed The Sustainable Hour to five stars out of five. She wrote:

“I really enjoy listening to this podcast. It is always full of relevant information and interesting people with lots of great ideas and actions to help make a better future. I also like the music these guys come up with at the end of mos...