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Author: Mik Aidt

Mik is a journalist, podcaster and blogger. Lived in Denmark many years. Spent four years in Africa. Visited close to 60 countries around the planet. Settled in Australia with his family. Mik became a climatesafety advocate when he became a father of three 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's story on the About page

Climate change and democracy: can Citizens’ Assemblies get us out of this crisis?

11 March 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary One comment

“Climate change is a symptom of a failed set of governance,” Eddie Kowalski explains in this podcast interview about an online Citizens Assembly project.

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Raise the flag for life on Earth

6 March 2025 Mik Aidt Recommendation

This year on Earth Day, 22 April 2024, we are many who will be waving a flag for the Earth. Would you like to wave one as well?

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Community Independent enters Corangamite race for federal election

6 March 2025 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Agricultural scientist Kate Lockhart has been selected as the Voices of Corangamite Community Independent candidate

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When in doubt, vote the man out

5 March 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no. 538 is an International Women’s Day tribute with Kate Lockhart and Aleta Moriarty hosting the episode.

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Dutton wants to ‘dig baby dig’

26 February 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

“Australia is sleepwalking into an election that could deliver the most anti-renewable government in Australia’s history,” says John Grimes from the Smart Energy Council.

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Climate refugees – where will they all go?

26 February 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 537 is Chris Schmidt, a human rights and refugee advocate from Adelaide, Australia.

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Let’s get it right – a vision for the green transition

20 February 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

Four-minute audio vision of what the green transition would look like – paired with a guide on how to make it reality.

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Playing the long game – vote climate

19 February 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 536 are Jane Morton from Vote Climate and Ben Pederick, creator of TAG, The Adaptation Game.

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Torquay’s residents being taken for fools

14 February 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary One comment

FACT CHECK. Opposition leader Peter Dutton is repeating misinformation that benefits the fossil fuel industry, while ignoring the very real climate and economic crises facing Australia.

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Record-breaking global temperatures: What 1.75°C really means for you and me

13 February 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

What does 1.75°C even mean? And: So what can we do about it?

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Recent Posts

  • TUNING IN TO EARTH DAY at The Pulse
  • BE COLLECTIVE – power, climate and the necessity of cooperation
  • POWER UP – reclaiming energy, democracy and community
  • POWER OF IMAGINATION in a world on edge
  • RUN FOR COUNTRY – ice cream in a fight against fracking
  • FESTIVALS OF CHANGE – from climate worry to community action 
  • TAKE ACTION FOR EARTH – defending the swift parrot
  • BE DIFFICULT – balancing the scales for climate justice
  • When the emergency becomes our new reality
  • Inner work as catalyst for outer change
  • Being a little batty – about responsibility and belonging
  • Be ready for the climate reset
  • Staying cool, staying safe: what electrifying our homes really means
  • Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being
  • From bushfires to community power – a radio conversation on 94.7 The Pulse
  • Australian cowardice at the highest level
  • Meaning that will move us
  • When survival meets policy failure
  • These climate disasters are not an accident
  • Denial meets reality: Victoria enters a state of climate disaster
  • Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa
  • Geelong Advertiser: Paid misinformation on climate
  • A YEAR IN SONG: The soundtrack of The Sustainable Hour 2025
  • CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
  • FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery
  • In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
  • The bats and humans who belong – in Geelong
  • FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment
  • Treaty and protestival – listening for change
  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “Fuck hope. What’s the strategy?”
  • The Climate Safety Plan – ensuring no one is left behind
  • Trash talkers and trauma – how small actions combat climate anxiety
  • Fighting Australia’s carbon bomb – choosing courage over cowardice
  • BE BRUTALLY HONEST. The climate reality we must face
  • From fighting for the climate to serving life on Earth

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