Members of Fridays for Future Geelong reflect as individuals on why they do what they do.
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
Catalysts for a radical sustainability revolution
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 438 are Olly Hornung from the new Catalyst Community Centre in Melbourne, and Abdul Farouk from Kenya, a conservationist building beehive fences to protect elephants.
Runway to fossil fuel freedom
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 437 are No More Gas campaigner Freja Leonard, and Mark Carter from Flight Free Australia.
Greta Thunberg: The truth about the climate crisis
Greta Thunberg spoke at the Royal Festival Hall in London at ‘The Climate Event’ on 31 October 2022 – an event which was organised by Southbank Centre in partnership with Penguin. The video recording of the event was only made available on Youtube until the end of November 2022, unfortunately.
#FindYourRole: The peaceful perseverers
#FindYourRole: The peaceful perseverers | Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 436 are Caroline Danaher and Maree Maria from Fridays for Future Geelong, Kay Wennagel who is facilitating an electric vehicle bulk buy, and peace activist Nick Deane.
Send a letter to the ABC management
We need to hold the ABC – along with SBS and all other media, as well as our politicians, the fossil fuel companies and the lobbyist think tanks – to account for what they’ve done to our planet.
Net Zero 2030: Every person makes it count
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 435 is Damien Williams, president of Zero Kingston 2030.
Faith groups gather to stop new coal, oil and gas
Scripture and prayers from different traditions were read at the Christ Church Anglican Church in Geelong in the early, rainful morning of 13 October 2022
Flooded? Here comes an arc
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 434 are Father Peter Martin and Thea Ormerod from the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change.
Climate emergency: everybody’s responsibility :-)
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 433 are Tim Hollo, author of the new book ‘Living Democracy’, and Dr Kate Auty, community organiser in Euroa.