The Sustainable Hour no 273 with Margie Abbott, Lauren Sandemen, and Elizabeth Meiler
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.”
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Change the climate: Youth, art and a river walk
Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 19 June 2019: Alex Marshall calls for community support to get Surf Coast Council to vote for a climate emergency declaration on their 25 June meeting. 19-year-old Alex has been driving a petition which got more than 1,000 signatures in just a few
Thrive for future
This is “Extinction Rebellion for Kids” – meaning: Let’s talk about how we will win, and not about how we are losing. On 5 July 2019 at 11am at Geelong City Hall: Photo shoot and animal dress up. The recipe for winning requires an unprecedented mix of optimism and realism:
Leader of 1.3 billion Catholics declares a climate emergency
“Faced with a climate emergency, we must take action accordingly, in order to avoid perpetrating a brutal act of injustice towards the poor and future generations,” said Pope Francis
Primal roar for the climate
Dissatisfied, frustrated, angry, scared or feeling blue about the complete failure of our elected leaders when it comes to adequately addressing the existential threat that the climate emergency now confronts us with? Then join Caroline Danaher at Geelong city hall on Fridays in June and July 2019 in the hour
Transitional roars from within the city
The Sustainable Hour no 271 about a business that has declared a climate emergency, Transition Street Geelong and StopAdani
600 climate emergency declarations: the emergence of a global referendum
This week I received an email from Janine O’Keeffe titled ‘Climate Emergency Declarations and fear for democracy’ with this question: “Hi Mik,Some countries have fears about the climate emergency declarations being used for non-democratic purposes. Can this include democratic mobilisation of resources?” I replied: First of all there is a
Biggest ever global #ClimateStrike announced
To everyone who cares about climate safety and climate justice for all of us, this is your invitation to join the Global #ClimateStrike on 20 September 2019 – millions of people around the world standing up to confront the climate crisis when our politicians won’t. → Join or host a
Climate emergency, hypocracy and a green wedge
Guest in The Sustainble Hour on 5 June 2019 is Noel Emselle who invites all community members to a public forum, the Southern Bellarine Coastal Forum, on future development in the “green wedge” between Point Lonsdale and Ocean Grove on the 21 June 2019. The interview with him starts at
Petition: Call on Geelong Council to declare
We used to say, “to declare a climate emergency.” Now it has become such a common thing to do that people just say “to declare” and expect everyone to know what they mean. → You can add your name to the petition here:www.geelong.climateemergencydeclaration.org/petition – – – – – – –