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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

Labor government’s gas expansion madness exposed in Geelong

21 March 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

Victoria’s Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio’s office is considering “every possible” option to expand the supply of gas.

Open blogpost

Reenergising democracy: Make your vote count

19 March 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 540 is Kate Lockhart, who recently announced her candidacy as the Community Independent for Corangamite in the upcoming federal election.

Open blogpost

Democracy is not a spectator sport

12 March 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests of The Sustainable Hour no. 539 are David Glanz from the Defend Dissent Coalition, and Jaimie Jeffrey and Sarah Hathway from IPAN Geelong.

Open blogpost

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.

Open blogpost

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?

Open blogpost

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

Open blogpost

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.

Open blogpost

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.

Open blogpost

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.

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • From the ground up: The connecting link between medicine and farming
  • Treaty to take us beyond fossil fuels
  • Justice on Country
  • CONNECTION CAFÉ – finding joy in practical action
  • FOOTY FOREVER – climate action meets Australia’s game
  • The world doesn’t have to be this way
  • Democracy, diesel and the true cost of fossil fuels
  • The body count of fossil fuels
  • Democracy is failing the climate
  • DEMOCRACY AT A CROSSROADS – can we reconnect and respond?
  • From backyard trees to community oil – the story of the Barwon Oil Barons
  • From climate emergency to festival of life
  • RESHAPE OUR WORLD – from positivity to regenerative communities
  • From persuasion to connection – a theory of change for the climate reset
  • EARTH DAY 2026 – voices from ocean to earthmark
  • 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
  • FORCE OF LIFE: 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

Recent Comments

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