Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 427 are climate activist and sociologist Jenn Sinclair, psycho-therapist Andrew Gaines and writer, musician and activist Morgan Heenan.
Author: Mik Aidt
Mik is a journalist and blogger. Used to live in Denmark many years. Spent almost four years in Africa. Has visited some 55 countries around the planet. Now settled in Australia with his family. Mik became a sustainability and climate change blogger because he became a father of three beautiful 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 Aidt on https://climatesafety.info/about
#JustStopOil: If they will not stop new oil and gas projects, we will
“Now is the time to resist the biggest act of criminality in human history,” say British JustStopOil campaigners as they sabotage petrol stations and block a tunnel under an oil terminal.
Reuse, reduce, DANCE, recycle, repeat
In The Sustainable Hour no. 426, we welcome Mik Aidt back from his two weeks in Denmark. The tables are turned on him as he becomes our guest.
Sri Lanka’s hiatus
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 425 is Tevin Witharana, a young freelance film maker from Sri Lanka who speaks of the positives that have emerged from being forced to slow down.
Gas: no longer needed
Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 10 August 2022 is ‘No More Gas’ campaigner Freja Leonard from Friends of The Earth Naarm/Melbourne.
Gaslighting Geelong: accusations of betrayal
Local community groups are outraged that GeelongPort has entered into a commercial agreement with Viva Energy to extend Refinery Pier for a proposed gas import terminal
Protecting our forests, activists and community
Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 3 August 2022 are Amy Calton from Wombat Action Group, Gayle Osborne from Wombat Forestcare and Kate Hardy from Australian Conservation Foundation.
Geelong Youth Council’s top priority: soft plastic recycling
A soft plastics project has been put forward by Youth Council as an important step in assisting Geelong Council.
How emergency can lead to co-operation and excitement
Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 422 on 27 July 2022 are Rochelle Rich and Dawn O’Neill. We also play clips from the American president and the UN General-Secretary.
The Sustainable Hour’s presentation to the Gashub Inquiry Committee
We played this video for the Viva Energy Gas Terminal Inquiry and Advisory Committee on 21 July 2022. Transcript below. → If you agree with us that this gas terminal should not be allowed to go ahead, you can add