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Centre for Climate Safety

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

Female artists taking us forward

18 March 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Hour no 305 is Diane Spicer. She is one of the 31 female artists contributing to the ‘What Do You Have To Lose?’

Open blogpost

Climate activists’ perspectives on the coronavirus

14 March 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

Selfishness and greed among some members of the community can put us all in danger — and that’s no matter whether the issue is a virus crisis or a climate crisis.

Open blogpost

The girls, the women and the climate

14 March 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

There’s something going on which we need to talk about more openly: The climate issue is also a gender issue

Open blogpost

Geelong’s new approach to the climate emergency

11 March 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no 304 with Geelong Mayor Stephanie Asher about her city council’s recent climate emergency declaration

Open blogpost

Speaking of drawdown (2): Our roles as ‘Personal leaders’

6 March 2020 Mik Aidt Educational, Recommendation

Speech by David Spear, the Executive Officer of Geelong Sustainability’s brand new social enterprise called ​GreenLight​.

Open blogpost

Speaking of drawdown (1): What role might I play?

5 March 2020 Mik Aidt Educational, Recommendation

How we can affect our climate change future? At Geelong Sustainability’s Clever Living Seminar on 3 March 2020 at the Geelong Library, David Spear, CEO of Greenlight, and Gene Blackley, director of Drawdown Australia presented their answers to that question.

Open blogpost

Otways Subterranean National Park – a world’s first

4 March 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our studio guest in The Sustainable Hour on 4 March 2020 is Malcolm Gardiner from the Land & Water Resources Otway Catchments (LAWROC) Landcare group.

Open blogpost

Recordings from the Climate Emergency Summit 2020

1 March 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Petition, Recommendation, World affairs

The first Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne was live-streamed on YouTube, and these recordings are now made available in shorter segments, together with an additional set of audio recordings of the break-out sessions.

Open blogpost

When enough of us act on climate, we get to set the new rules

29 February 2020 Mik Aidt Educational, Recommendation

Lots of us have been convinced that our individual action on climate change isn’t worth the effort and the cost. But is it true?

Open blogpost

Geelong grapples with its climate emergency declaration

26 February 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

On 25 February 2020, Geelong Council declared a climate emergency. Guest in the sustainable studio on 26 February is Monica Winston from Transition Streets Geelong.

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • From the ground up: The connecting link between medicine and farming
  • Treaty to take us beyond fossil fuels
  • Justice on Country
  • CONNECTION CAFÉ – finding joy in practical action
  • FOOTY FOREVER – climate action meets Australia’s game
  • The world doesn’t have to be this way
  • Democracy, diesel and the true cost of fossil fuels
  • 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

Recent Comments

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