Steps forward at recycling and relearning solidarity - a podcast by Anthony Gleeson, Jackie Matthews, Colin Mockett, Mik Aidt

Our first guest in The Sustainable Hour no 315 on 27 May 2020 is Geelong Councillor Ron Nelson. As chair of Council’s Waste & Resource Recovery  committee, Ron faces some spirited questions about what the City of Greater Geelong is doing on this front. He doesn’t shy away from the fact that the Council could be much better. He believes that more funding from the State and Federal governments plus a greater emphasis on education is what’s needed.







Ron is followed by Clare Land, the author of the recently released book, ‘Decolonizing Solidarity – Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles’. Clare outlines what led to the genesis of the book, which is the culmination of her PhD thesis. She doesn’t sugarcoat the difficulty of the task involved: essentially it’s overcoming 250 years of broken promises, genocide, stolen generations, injustice and prejudice, but it’s work that must happen if we want to achieve true equality and hence long term sustainability. We have much to learn from this ancient wisdom if we are to survive the climate emergency we face.







Colin Mockett’s Global Outlook covers three important issues. Poll results show the British public’s surprising choices for mass transportation in the post coronavirus constrained world. International condemnation of Australian Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s post covid-19 economic stimulus package. And the commission looking into our disastrous wildfires over summer spending the first two weeks of its hearings focussing on climate change.







Mik Aidt complements this with an important observation about the country of his birth, Denmark, and how they are very much ‘punching about their weight division’ as regards the carbon reduction and renewable energy targets, with the government now announcing that it is going to make the biggest investment in the country’s history, creating two energy islands.







After this, Mik and Colin discuss last week’s ABC Four Corners program ‘Climate Wars’ as we hear some extracts from it, where key public service advisors were very critical of government decisions over several decades allowing industries to continue to burn fossils and wreck the climate.















“Decisions made today should tick at least these two boxes: a liveable planet and a good life!”~ Diana Ivanova, Research Fellow within the Sustainability Research Institute at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds



















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