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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

Good news we take with us into 2023

27 December 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, World affairs

New Year is a time to take a breather, recharge the batteries and lift the glasses, while reflecting on both the wins and the failures of the year that went by. 2022 was a year flooded with bad news, however so much the more, it is important at this time

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Cultivating a culture of collective care

21 December 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 443 are Liz Wade, who is a Good Grief facilitator, and Iain McIntyre from the Commons Social Change Library.

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Pushing the frontiers for nature and solar

14 December 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 442 are PhD Candidate Kirsty Jackson, who studies childrens’ connection with nature, and Kim Mallee, who has started selling ‘solar plots’ in Australia’s first ‘solar garden’

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Transformational designers of the true zero

7 December 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 441 are Charles van Dongen from the battery company Zenaji and Tim Adams from the ‘true zero carbon’-focused architectural firm F2 Design.

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Art to open a gentle dialogue about climate

30 November 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters One comment

Guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 440 is landscape artist Peter Biram, who opens an exhibition next week. We also hear from Swedish climate activists Greta Thunberg and Janine Okeefe.

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Do we deserve this?

23 November 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 439, three days before the Victorian State Election, is ‘Australia’s first climate refugee’ Rod Simpson.

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Why they come every Friday with their signs and banners

22 November 2022 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Members of Fridays for Future Geelong reflect as individuals on why they do what they do.

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Catalysts for a radical sustainability revolution

16 November 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

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.

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Runway to fossil fuel freedom

9 November 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 437 are No More Gas campaigner Freja Leonard, and Mark Carter from Flight Free Australia.

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Greta Thunberg: The truth about the climate crisis

3 November 2022 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

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.

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Recent Posts

  • 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
  • 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

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