The next Laudato Si’ Circle at St Mary’s is on Wednesday 27 November 2019.Time: 6:00pm to 7:00pmLocation: St Mary’s, downstairs room The format for this gathering will be a minute of contemplative silence, followed by the reading of a letter
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.”
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Sustainable community knowledge festival and a citizens’ rebellion
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Leadership comes from the youth
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Geelong: Support proposed climate emergency declaration this Tuesday
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Community radio station declares a climate emergency
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This is a job for humanity – of which you and we all happen to be a part
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THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Mangroves, microorganisms and care for country
The first half of this Regenerative Hour is about mangroves, seaweed and blue carbon in an indigenous perspective. The rest of the podcast digs into the topics of soil health and carbon sequestering through regenerative farming.
Mik’s debut as a youtuber: The ‘Show me how’ series
Mik has picked up the video camera on his phone to start ‘youtubing’ about people in his city who are reducing their ecological footprint
What will you do for the youth on 20 September?
“It’s hard not to feel despair at headlines full of fires, floods, hurricanes, and droughts. But the science tells us we still have time to turn it around if governments listen to the people, instead of the oil and gas