The Sustainable Hour
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.
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.
BE COLLECTIVE – power, climate and the necessity of cooperation
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 586 is union leader and writer Godfrey Moase.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When the emergency becomes our new reality
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 579 is Nicole Shortis, Controller of VICSES Bellarine.
Inner work as catalyst for outer change
The fourth episode of the Force of Life series features social innovator and systems thinker Andrew Gaines
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.
Be ready for the climate reset
Our guest in the first Sustainable Hour in 2026 is Luke Taylor, the National Sustainability Festival's director.
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.
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'.
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.
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,
In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 573 is community builder Kate Shelton, founder of Peacemeals.
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'.
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.
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
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.
Australia’s transformative, green and ground-up energy revolution
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 569 is Dr Philippa England, a clean-energy trailblazer from Queensland.
GET LOUD – Women at the heart of the green transition
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 568 are Lauren Dillon and Jodie Hill.
PREPARE FOR IMPACT – Australia’s climate risk reality check
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 567 is Neil Plummer, who discusses Australia’s new national climate risk assessment
FORCE OF LIFE:Â Reinventing our world with a senior uprise, peace of mind, pride, and awe
Interview with Danish author Tor Nørretranders - exploring what it means to act in service to life on Earth.
New relations: Language, love and the roots of our climate crisis
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 566 is Ramandeep Sibia from Punjabis for Climate and Warm Data Lab.
Get involved with the Climate Rescue Accord
The Climate Rescue Accord is a common policy framework to set a course to restore a safe climate.
Days of sun, sustainability and solutions
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 565 is Ruth Blackhirst from Geelong Sustainability, organiser of Sustainable House Day
Tiny homes, huge hearts – resilience and joy in community living
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 564 are Rochelle Ryan from Australian Tiny House Association and Andy Greig from Swift Tiny Homes.
The Sustainable Climate Song Contest Hour 2025
What happens when climate activists turn into songwriters – and then ask their audience to vote?
Green transition, trust and togetherness in Denmark
The Sustainable Hour no. 562Â takes us to Denmark where Mik Aidt is reporting back on what the green transition looks and feels like on the ground.
Bold steps, tiny homes and zero waste futures
With Cat Macleod, Friday Vigils for Climate, Phae Barrett, Geelong Tiny Home Expo, and Kirsty Bishop-Fox, Zero Waste Festival.
THE CLIMATE REVOLUTION: Revolutionary politics rooted in service to life on Earth
The tenth episode of The Climate Revolution podcast series features the British sustainability strategist Joseph Gelfer.
Working with nature – not against it
The Sustainable Hour no. 560: Peter Andrews and Martin Royds deliver a masterclass in landscape function and soil biology.
Legal revolution for the planet – and a call from the butt hunters
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 599 are corporate laywer Robert Hinkley and Shannon Mead, founder of No More Butts.
Wake up and fight
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 558 are Alana Mountain who fights for the forests, and Unty Rose who fights against cancer. We also listen to a speech by climate crime fighter Sheldon Whitehouse.
HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE? Healing the land with plants and water
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 557 is landscape restorer and 'plant whisperer' Peter Andrews.
RICHER THAN BEFORE:Â Building renewable economies
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour are Wayne Wadsworth (Wadzy), and Marama Grace Brownsdon (Mims).
First Nations voices rise for treaty, truth and climate healing
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 555 is Yaraan Couzens Bundle, a whale-dreaming custodian and founder of SOPEC.
