The Sustainable Hour

The Sustainable Hour

Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable

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DEMOCRACY AT A CROSSROADS – can we reconnect and respond?

May 5, 2026 • 59 mins
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 589 are Professor Joseph Camilleri and Jane Morton.
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RESHAPE OUR WORLD – from positivity to regenerative communities

April 29, 2026 • 53 mins
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 588 is Sam Smith, sustainability manager of advisory services for Development Victoria.
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EARTH DAY 2026 – voices from ocean to earthmark

April 21, 2026 • 55 mins
The Sustainable Hour on 22 April 2026 marks Earth Day with an open microphone event and special guests.
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BE COLLECTIVE – power, climate and the necessity of cooperation

April 14, 2026 • 52 mins
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 586 is union leader and writer Godfrey Moase.
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POWER UP – reclaiming energy, democracy and community

April 7, 2026 • 55 mins
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 8 April 2026 is Mhairi Fraser from the newly opened Goulburn Solar Farm.
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POWER OF IMAGINATION in a world on edge

March 31, 2026 • 53 mins
Our guests on 1 April 2026 are Geelong Mayor Stretch Kontelj, and Ro O'Reilly, team leader at Project Greenlift.
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RUN FOR COUNTRY – ice cream in a fight against fracking

March 24, 2026 • 54 mins
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 25 March 2026 is Hilary McAllister, one of ice-cream company Ben & Jerry's campaign organisers.
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FESTIVALS OF CHANGE – from climate worry to community action 

March 17, 2026 • 55 mins
Our guests are Jacqui Dunn and Lauren Ball from the One Planet Festival, and Tonie Field from the Degrowth Festival.
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TAKE ACTION FOR EARTH – defending the swift parrot

March 10, 2026 • 53 mins
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 581 is Jenny Weber, campaigns director at the Bob Brown Foundation.
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BE DIFFICULT – balancing the scales for climate justice

March 5, 2026 • 53 mins
Guest in our International Women’s Day special is climate lecturer Lucy Richardson. Hosted by Lauren Dillon and Jodie Hill.
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When the emergency becomes our new reality

February 17, 2026 • 53 mins
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 579 is Nicole Shortis, Controller of VICSES Bellarine.
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FORCE OF LIFE: Inner work as catalyst for outer change

February 15, 2026 • 54 mins
The fourth episode of the Force of Life series features social innovator and systems thinker Andrew Gaines
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Being a little batty – about responsibility and belonging

February 10, 2026 • 55 mins
The Sustainable Hour no. 578 focuses on the opening of the art exhibition 'Bats & Belonging' in Geelong.
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Be ready for the climate reset

February 3, 2026 • 54 mins
Our guest in the first Sustainable Hour in 2026 is Luke Taylor, the National Sustainability Festival's director.
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Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa

December 16, 2025 • 60 mins
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.
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A YEAR IN SONG: The soundtrack of The Sustainable Hour 2025

December 9, 2025 • 62 mins
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'.
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CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power

November 25, 2025 • 53 mins
Our guest is environmentalist and poet Georgina Woods, Head of Research and Investigations at Lock the Gate Alliance.
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FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery

November 19, 2025 • 56 mins
Third episode of the Force of Life podcast series features the Danish architect and systems thinker Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov,
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In kindness, respect, understanding and trust

November 18, 2025 • 56 mins
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 573 is community builder Kate Shelton, founder of Peacemeals.
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FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment

November 11, 2025 • 57 mins
In this second episode of The Force of Life podcast series, writer, philosopher, and sociologist Barbara Lepani explains what she calls 'enlivenment'.
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