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http://thesustainablehour.au - Australia's longest-running podcast on the green matters that matter: climate solutions and sustainability

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · Aug 8

#TheClimateRevolution podcast episode 10:
REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS ROOTED IN SERVICE TO LIFE ON EARTH

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Featuring the British sustainability strategist Joseph Gelfer.

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 4d

NEW SONG:
'Prepare For Impact'

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– blending poetic urgency with scientific truth, this song transforms Plummer’s spoken words into a danceable call for decisive, purposeful climate action.

More songs: www.climatesafety.info/music

#PrepareForImpact #ClimateMusic

The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 4d

The federal government’s new risk assessment reveals that by 2050, more than 1.5 million Australians could face sea-level rise and flooding – a number that may double by 2090.

#climateemergency #ClimateRisk #GeelongSustainability #PrepareForImpact #ClimateSafeRooms #resilience #adaptation

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 4d

Neil Plummer is a climatologist, Geelong Sustainability board member, and former head of Climate Services at the Bureau of Meteorology. He speaks about the growing anxiety – especially among young people – and the need for stronger partnerships between sustainability groups and the health sector.

The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 4d

#TheSustainableHour #567:
PREPARE FOR IMPACT – Australia’s climate risk reality check

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Our guest is Neil Plummer, who discusses Australia’s new national climate risk assessment.

#ClimateEmergency

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 9d

'Force of Life (Summer Vibe)'
A song that celebrates life’s wonder, courage, and love while calling us to stand united as a Force of Life

Inspired by the Danish author Tor Nørretranders. Premiered in Force of Life Episode 1

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 9d

#FORCEOFLIFE #1:
The elders’ revolt, awe, and reinventing the world

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with Danish author and science communicator Tor Nørretranders

#ForceofLife #TorNørretranders #senioruprise #awe #commons #ServiceToLife

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 9d

Here's a link to the article itself.

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Why Australia's Climate Crisis Matters to the World

Want to know what global warming has in store for us? Just go to Australia, where rivers are drying up, reefs are dying, and fires and floods are rava

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 9d

14 yrs ago, (Oct 3, 2011) @jeffgoodell.bsky.social 's article "Climate Change and the End of Australia" is published

"Over a few weeks, the continent has been hit by a record heat wave, a crippling drought, bush fires, floods... even a plague of locusts"

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Climate Change and the end of Australia by Jeff Goodell

It’s near midnight, and I’m holed up in a rickety hotel in Proserpine, a whistle-stop town on the northeast coast of Australia. Yasi, a Category 5 hurricane with 200-mile-per-hour winds that’s already been dubbed “The Mother of All Catastrophes” by excitable Aussie tabloids, is just a few hundred miles offshore. When the eye of the storm hits, forecasters predict, it will be the worst ever to batter the east coast of Australia.

I have come to Australia to see what a global-warming future holds for this most vulnerable of nations, and Mother Nature has been happy to oblige: Over the course of just a few weeks, the continent has been hit by a record heat wave, a crippling drought, bush fires, floods that swamped an area the size of France and Germany combined, even a plague of locusts. “In many ways, it is a disaster of biblical proportions,” Andrew Fraser, the Queensland state treasurer, told reporters. He was talking about the floods in his region, but the sense that Australia – which maintains one of the highest per-capita carbon footprints on the planet – has summoned up the wrath of the climate gods is everywhere. “Australia is the canary in the coal mine,” says David Karoly, a top climate researcher at the University of Melbourne. “What is happening in Australia now is similar to what we can expect to see in other places in the future.” (continues)

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 18d

'New Relations'

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– a funky song about weaving fresh connections with Earth and each other, restoring love and life through new relations. Inspired by Ramandeep Sibia from Punjabis for Climate.

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 18d

#TheSustainableHour #566:
NEW RELATIONS: LANGUAGE, LOVE AND THE ROOTS OF OUR CLIMATE CRISIS

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Our guest this week is Ramandeep Sibia from #PunjabisforClimate and #WarmDataLab.

#ClimateLanguage #Community

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BYTESEU @byteseu.bsky.social · 18d

Department of Land and Natural Resources

https://www.byteseu.com/1407077/

9/23/25 – LOCAL ARTISTS SHOWCASE ORIGINAL ARTWORK WITH FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE Posted on Sep 23, 2025 in Hawaii Climate Commission, Main, News Releases, slider JOSH GREEN, M.D.GOVERNOR DAWN CHANGCHAIRPERSON LOCAL ARTISTS …

Department of Land and Natural Resources - Bytes Europe

DAWN CHANGCHAIRPERSON

www.byteseu.com

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Climate & Energy Watch ☀️💨🌻🌡️📈 @energywatch.bsky.social · 18d

#climate #climate change #coal #energy #wind #wind energy

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reneweconomy.com.au

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cowgirl52.bsky.social @cowgirl52.bsky.social · 18d

Climate Change is REAL! 🌀

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Super Typhoon Ragasa: 14 killed in Taiwan and Hong Kong brought to standstill

A lake barrier burst its banks in eastern Taiwan, while Hong Kong airport grounds most flights and shuts schools and businesses.

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Ladybugspicnic @ladybugspicnic.bsky.social · 18d

"Scientists warn that storms are becoming more powerful as the world warms due to the effects of climate change."

Every increment of warming matters.

Climate change isn't the distant future. It's now.

The big question is how much worse are we going to let it get?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18d

Super Typhoon Ragasa: at least 14 killed in Taiwan as Hong Kong and southern China brace for impact

Deadly flood crashes through Taiwan’s Hualien county as barrier lake bursts its banks as typhoon continues its path The bursting of a barrier lake in Taiwan has killed at least 14 people and left dozens missing, officials have announced, after Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded the island with torrential rains, bringing widespread damage to parts of east Asia. The outer rim of Super Typhoon Ragasa has been bearing down on Taiwan since Monday as its path moves down towards the southern Chinese coast. Continue reading...

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Still an Earth Girl 🐬🐳🐨🐋🦘 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 18d

fffs ... the orange buffoon:

"Europe was being 'devastated' by climate change policies and immigration ... You're doing it because you want to be nice ... politically correct ... you're destroying your heritage."

We're protecting our FUTURE, fool.

Why are ANY OF US even listening to him? At all?

'Your countries are going to hell': Trump's complaint-filled UN speech

Donald Trump uses a speech at the UN to criticise US allies' moves to recognise Palestine and chastise the international community over a range of other American grievances.

www.abc.net.au

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 25d

In this week’s #TheSustainableHour, we celebrate the rise of solar energy and look ahead to Geelong’s biggest annual sustainability event – #SustainableHouseDay.

We also listen to statements by António Guterres, Bill McKibben, Malcolm Turnbull and a TEDtalk by Jean Oelwang.

#SunDay

The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 25d

SONG:
'Sustainable House Day'
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An uplifting song that celebrates Sustainable House Day as a community festival of clever design, cost savings, and carbon-free living.

Inspired by Ruth Blackhirst from Geelong Sustainability. Premiered in The Sustainable Hour no 565

The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · 25d

#TheSustainableHour #565:
DAYS OF SUN, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOLUTIONS

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Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 565 is Ruth Blackhirst from Geelong Sustainability, organiser of #SustainableHouseDay

The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · Sep 10

Interview with Andy Greig from Swift Tiny Homes - about community, social equity and purpose

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · Sep 10

Excerpt of the interview with Rochelle Ryan - her personal story about how she got involved with the Australian Tiny House Association

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · Sep 10

'What Makes Us Happy'

- a song of tiny homes and huge hearts, where happiness is found in giving and community. Inspired by Andy Greig from Swift Tiny Homes.

Premiered in The Sustainable Hour no. 564.

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · Sep 10

#TheSustainableHour #564
TINY HOMES, HUGE HEARTS – RESILIENCE AND JOY IN COMMUNITY LIVING

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Our guests are Rochelle Ryan from Australian Tiny House Association and Andy Greig from Swift Tiny Homes.

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The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · Aug 27

NEW SONG: 'We Share the Sun'

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A luminous song of resilience and community, turning crisis into renewal and shared light. Featuring Dale Vince and Bill McKibben.

Premiered in The Sustainable Hour no. 562.

#climatemusic #wesharethesun #togetherness

The Sustainable Hour @thesustainablehour.bsky.social · Aug 27

#TheSustainableHour #562:
GREEN TRANSITION, TRUST AND TOGETHERNESS IN DENMARK

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This episode takes us to Denmark where Mik Aidt is reporting back on what the green transition looks and feels like on the ground.

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · Aug 21

ok so marketing friend wants me to come up with a list of climate pods so he can pitch me to talk about our climate class

Anyone have ideas for me? I have been super into fiction podcasts lately . . . Welcome to Nightvale probs isn't what he wants.

makinghope.lilregie.com

MAKING
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More than just the climate is changing in the world today. Governments are falling one by one to fascism and far-right political parties. With them comes an institutionalisation of doubt, denial, and a turn away from collective solutions to our shared problems.
This class will explore the impacts of that transition and what we can do about it. What can we do to protect our scientists? How can we transform the climate movement into one that can rise to the scale of the needed change? And most of all, what should the climate movement do to fight fascism and ensure a liveable planet for everyone? Join us on Zoom, register at:
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17 SEPT - 12 NOV
WED, 10AM, NZST
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FACILITATOR:
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GUEST SPEAKERS:
Bill Mckibben, Amy Westervelt, James Renwick, Ketan Joshi ... and more!
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