By Anthony Gleeson, Colin Mockett & Mik Aidt: The Sustainable Hour is a weekly podcast and FM radio program from Geelong, Australia, out at 11am on Wednesdays -Â "for a green, clean, sustainable Geelong" - since 2013. We talk about the climate, nature, energy and sustainability - about how we make our houses and apartments, gardens and streets, our neighbourhood, city or village greener, cleaner, more beautiful, nicer to live in, healthier, more economical, connected and resilient, while having good fun with it as well. More on https://podcast.climatesafety.info
Geelong, Australia
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 594 is Michael Poland, Campaign Director of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 593 is Bruce Lindsay from Environmental Justice Australia.
In this 592nd episode of The Sustainable Hour, we speak with Lex Lynch, CEO of Footy for Climate.
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 591 are David Mould from Geelong Duck Rescue and Hayley Sestokas from Environment Victoria.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 590 is ex-enviro radio host Joe Cicero.
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 589 are Professor Joseph Camilleri and Jane Morton.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 588 is Sam Smith, sustainability manager of advisory services for Development Victoria.
The Sustainable Hour on 22 April 2026 marks Earth Day with an open microphone event and special guests.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 586 is union leader and writer Godfrey Moase.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 8 April 2026 is Mhairi Fraser from the newly opened Goulburn Solar Farm.
Our guests on 1 April 2026 are Geelong Mayor Stretch Kontelj, and Ro O'Reilly, team leader at Project Greenlift.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 25 March 2026 is Hilary McAllister, one of ice-cream company Ben & Jerry's campaign organisers.
Our guests are Jacqui Dunn and Lauren Ball from the One Planet Festival, and Tonie Field from the Degrowth Festival.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 581 is Jenny Weber, campaigns director at the Bob Brown Foundation.
Guest in our International Women's Day special is climate lecturer Lucy Richardson. Hosted by Lauren Dillon and Jodie Hill.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 579 is Nicole Shortis, Controller of VICSES Bellarine.
The fourth episode of the Force of Life series features social innovator and systems thinker Andrew Gaines
The Sustainable Hour no. 578 focuses on the opening of the art exhibition 'Bats & Belonging' in Geelong.
Our guest in the first Sustainable Hour in 2026 is Luke Taylor, the National Sustainability Festival's director.
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.
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'.
Our guest is environmentalist and poet Georgina Woods, Head of Research and Investigations at Lock the Gate Alliance.
Third episode of the Force of Life podcast series features the Danish architect and systems thinker Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov,
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 573 is community builder Kate Shelton, founder of Peacemeals.
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.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 571 is environmental lawyer Adam Beeson from the Australian Conservation Foundation
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 570 is former fossil fuel executive turned climate truth-teller, Ian Dunlop.
In this second episode of The Force of Life podcast series, writer, philosopher, and sociologist Barbara Lepani explains what she calls 'enlivenment'.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 569 is Dr Philippa England, a clean-energy trailblazer from Queensland.
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 568 are Lauren Dillon and Jodie Hill.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 567 is Neil Plummer, who discusses Australia's new national climate risk assessment
→ Transcript In this very first episode of the Force of Life podcast series, Mik Aidt sits down with Danish author and science communicator Tor Nørretranders to explore what it means to act in service to life on Earth. The Danish author calls for an
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 566 is Ramandeep Sibia from Punjabis for Climate and Warm Data Lab.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 565 is Ruth Blackhirst from Geelong Sustainability, organiser of Sustainable House Day
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 564 are Rochelle Ryan from Australian Tiny House Association and Andy Greig from Swift Tiny Homes.
The Sustainable Hour no. 562 takes us to Denmark where Mik Aidt is reporting back on what the green transition looks and feels like on the ground.
With Cat Macleod, Friday Vigils for Climate, Phae Barrett, Geelong Tiny Home Expo, and Kirsty Bishop-Fox, Zero Waste Festival.
The tenth episode of The Climate Revolution podcast series features the British sustainability strategist Joseph Gelfer.
The Sustainable Hour no. 560: Peter Andrews and Martin Royds deliver a masterclass in landscape function and soil biology.
What happens when climate activists turn into songwriters – and then ask their audience to vote?
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 599 are corporate laywer Robert Hinkley and Shannon Mead, founder of No More Butts.
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.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 557 is landscape restorer and 'plant whisperer' Peter Andrews.
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour are Wayne Wadsworth (Wadzy), and Marama Grace Brownsdon (Mims).
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 555 is Yaraan Couzens Bundle, a whale-dreaming custodian and founder of SOPEC.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 554 is Rob Eisenberg, founder of Local Matters, a new platform for building political accountability.
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 553 are Jan Cossar, president of the Port Phillip EcoCentre, and Deborah Sykes, co-founder of Electrify Southside.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 552 is Belinda Baggs, co-founder of Surfers for Climate.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 551 is Colin Long, Just Transition Officer at Trades Hall Council in Melbourne.
The Sustainable Hour no. 550 is a call to action – not with banners, but with choices.
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 549 is Michael Haupt, systems thinker and founder of Evolutionary Agents
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