Clippings from the newsstream and research about what a ‘green recovery’ means – and how it can improve our quality of life
Author: Mik Aidt
Mik is a journalist and blogger. Used to live in Denmark many years. Spent almost four years in Africa. Has visited some 55 countries around the planet. Now settled in Australia with his family. Mik became a sustainability and climate change blogger because he became a father of three beautiful children, and because – with the words of R. K. Pachauri – “We are all citizens of Planet Earth, and there is no other place we can go.”
» More about Mik Aidt on https://climatesafety.info/about
Victories of a gardening culture
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no 314 on 20 May is David Holmgren, co-founder of the permaculture movement, and author of ‘RetroSuburbia’, a guide to life in a post-carbon world.
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Isolating for nature
“I will not stand idly by while the very trees that are integral to our survival are ripped out of the earth and increasing our fire risk,” says Nic Fox, Isolating for Nature
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Growing up through the common
Guest in our 19th Regenerative Hour is Tim Hollo, Executive Director of the Green Institute. An hour about how we can build a better world once we are coming out of the Covid tunnel, and about what it will take to start the transformation.
What we can do from the inside
What we can do from the inside. Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 313 are economist Jim Crosthwaite who talks about the economics of gas, and Janet Massey who talks about her electric car.
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Neurological doctor’s climate call
An hour with Dr John Merory – the highly experienced neurologist who became a whole-hearted climate activist
Normalising care – Geelong gets the green light
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no 312 on 6 May 2020 are David Spear, Michael Bayliss and Ainsley Halbmeijer – for talks about the new normal, climate anxiety and a green light at the end of #TheTunnel
THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Glocal roadmap to a better future
Gilbert Rochecouste, the Melbourne-based agent of change who founded the world-renowned placemaking company Village Well, joins Mik in The Tunnel for a talk about what’s happening and where we need to go from here
Switching the narrative around
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 311 on 29 April 2020 are Damien Cole from Kindness Pandemic TV, James Conlan from Environment Victoria and Glenn Todd, director of Action Skills. Even though our individual habits have changed radically in the last
Shortcomings of Geelong Council’s proposed Sustainability Framework
Your help is needed: Please make a submission to the City of Greater Geelong’s proposed Sustainability Framework The City of Greater Geelong (CoGG) has created a Sustainability Framework intended to guide Council actions and decisions on sustainability, climate change and