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Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable

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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

Movement-building of people coming together

26 June 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 509 are Zane Alcorn from Rising Tide and Liz Wade from Degrowth Network Australia.

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Cultivating Earth from soil to soul: Regenerative farming meets deep ecology

19 June 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 508 are Celia Leverton from Regen Agriculture Network Tasmania, and John Seed – a long time rainforest activist and deep ecology advocate.

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Business as usual equals death

12 June 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour podcast episode no. 507 are Violet CoCo and Brad Homewood from Extinction Rebellion Victoria.

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Sri Lankan climate journeys and a soil guru

5 June 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in this week’s episode are Tasmanian permaculturist Neysan Pertl from The Soil Guru, and climate activists Kanchana and Pasini from Sri Lanka.

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Fortifying people not profit

29 May 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 505 is an anonymous agroecology activist from India. We also hear two activists speaking at oil companies’ AGMs.

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Considerately choosing that we can do better

22 May 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 504 are Tim Schmidt, president of the Australian Hemp Council, and sustainable fashion designer Simi Diskin.

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The elephant in the room of climate activism: politics

17 May 2024 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Report from a community meeting about climate and politics held at the Geelong West Town Hall on 9 May 2024

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Gassed promises and intentional lives

14 May 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 503 is Joppe from Sweden who lives in Solbyn, an Intentional Village. We also listen to speeches by Julie Saylor-Briggs and Wayne Jury.

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Sue Barrett: “Our Independent’s Day is coming”

12 May 2024 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

Sue Barrett spoke at Geelong West Townhall on 9 May 2024. She has successfully led Voices of Goldstein, March4Justice, Zoe Daniel’s 2022 campaign and Goldstein for Yes campaign using her professional knowledge, skills and experience. → See also: www.communityindependentsproject.org Transcript Sue Barrett: I don’t know where you were at Christmas

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System change, revolution and green grandmas

8 May 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests on The Sustainable Hour number 502 are green grandma and author Linda Mary Wagner and sociologist Terry Leahy.

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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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