Learning to share the atmosphere
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 596 is futurist and researcher Jose Ramos.
Jun 23, 2026•53 min•Season 13Ep. 596
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Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable
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FROM THE GROUND UP: The connecting link between medicine and farming
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 17 June 2026 are veterinarian Gundula Rhoades and organic farmer Jesper Andersen.
Jun 16, 2026•1 hr•Season 13Ep. 595
Treaty to take us beyond fossil fuels
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 594 is Michael Poland, Campaign Director of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative
Jun 09, 2026•54 min•Season 13Ep. 594
Justice on Country
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 593 is Bruce Lindsay from Environmental Justice Australia.
Jun 02, 2026•54 min•Season 13Ep. 593
FOOTY FOREVER – climate action meets Australia’s game
In this 592nd episode of The Sustainable Hour, we speak with Lex Lynch, CEO of Footy for Climate.
May 26, 2026•53 min•Season 13Ep. 592
The world doesn’t have to be this way
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 591 are David Mould from Geelong Duck Rescue and Hayley Sestokas from Environment Victoria.
May 19, 2026•1 hr•Season 13Ep. 591
Democracy, diesel and the true cost of fossil fuels
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 590 is ex-enviro radio host Joe Cicero.
May 13, 2026•53 min•Season 13Ep. 590
DEMOCRACY AT A CROSSROADS – can we reconnect and respond?
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 589 are Professor Joseph Camilleri and Jane Morton.
May 05, 2026•59 min•Season 13Ep. 589
RESHAPE OUR WORLD – from positivity to regenerative communities
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 588 is Sam Smith, sustainability manager of advisory services for Development Victoria.
Apr 29, 2026•53 min•Season 13Ep. 588
EARTH DAY 2026 – voices from ocean to earthmark
The Sustainable Hour on 22 April 2026 marks Earth Day with an open microphone event and special guests.
Apr 21, 2026•56 min•Season 13Ep. 587
BE COLLECTIVE – power, climate and the necessity of cooperation
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 586 is union leader and writer Godfrey Moase.
Apr 14, 2026•53 min•Season 13Ep. 586
POWER UP – reclaiming energy, democracy and community
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 8 April 2026 is Mhairi Fraser from the newly opened Goulburn Solar Farm.
Apr 07, 2026•56 min•Season 13Ep. 585
POWER OF IMAGINATION in a world on edge
Our guests on 1 April 2026 are Geelong Mayor Stretch Kontelj, and Ro O'Reilly, team leader at Project Greenlift.
Mar 31, 2026•53 min•Season 13Ep. 584
RUN FOR COUNTRY – ice cream in a fight against fracking
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 25 March 2026 is Hilary McAllister, one of ice-cream company Ben & Jerry's campaign organisers.
Mar 24, 2026•54 min•Season 13Ep. 583
FESTIVALS OF CHANGE – from climate worry to community action
Our guests are Jacqui Dunn and Lauren Ball from the One Planet Festival, and Tonie Field from the Degrowth Festival.
Mar 17, 2026•56 min•Season 13Ep. 582
TAKE ACTION FOR EARTH – defending the swift parrot
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 581 is Jenny Weber, campaigns director at the Bob Brown Foundation.
Mar 10, 2026•54 min•Season 13Ep. 581
BE DIFFICULT – balancing the scales for climate justice
Guest in our International Women’s Day special is climate lecturer Lucy Richardson. Hosted by Lauren Dillon and Jodie Hill.
Mar 05, 2026•54 min•Season 13Ep. 580
When the emergency becomes our new reality
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 579 is Nicole Shortis, Controller of VICSES Bellarine.
Feb 17, 2026•54 min•Season 13Ep. 579
FORCE OF LIFE: Inner work as catalyst for outer change
The fourth episode of the Force of Life series features social innovator and systems thinker Andrew Gaines
Feb 15, 2026•55 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Being a little batty – about responsibility and belonging
The Sustainable Hour no. 578 focuses on the opening of the art exhibition 'Bats & Belonging' in Geelong.
Feb 10, 2026•55 min•Season 13Ep. 578
Be ready for the climate reset
Our guest in the first Sustainable Hour in 2026 is Luke Taylor, the National Sustainability Festival's director.
Feb 04, 2026•55 min•Season 13Ep. 577
Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 576 are permaculture teacher Jessica Perini and refugee leaders Eric Hakizimana in Uganda and Ruth Akinyi in Kenya.
Dec 16, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 13Ep. 576
A YEAR IN SONG: The soundtrack of The Sustainable Hour 2025
In The Sustainable Hour no. 575 we mark the launch of 50 of our songs on Spotify, Apple and Amazon music: 'The Force of Life Collective'.
Dec 10, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 13Ep. 575
CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
Our guest is environmentalist and poet Georgina Woods, Head of Research and Investigations at Lock the Gate Alliance.
Nov 25, 2025•54 min•Season 13Ep. 574
FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery
Third episode of the Force of Life podcast series features the Danish architect and systems thinker Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov,
Nov 19, 2025•57 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 573 is community builder Kate Shelton, founder of Peacemeals.
Nov 19, 2025•57 min•Season 13Ep. 573
FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment
In this second episode of The Force of Life podcast series, writer, philosopher, and sociologist Barbara Lepani explains what she calls 'enlivenment'.
Nov 12, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Treaty and protestival – listening for change
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 572 are Rory Bush-Belton from Rising Tide and Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth Naarm/Melbourne.
Nov 11, 2025•53 min•Season 13Ep. 572
Fighting Australia’s carbon bomb – choosing courage over cowardice
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 571 is environmental lawyer Adam Beeson from the Australian Conservation Foundation
Nov 04, 2025•54 min•Season 13Ep. 571
BE BRUTALLY HONEST. The climate reality we must face
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 570 is former fossil fuel executive turned climate truth-teller, Ian Dunlop.
Oct 29, 2025•54 min•Season 12Ep. 570
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