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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

Have: Overwhelmingly gloomy facts. Need: Resilience

7 February 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational, Recommendation

Ready for a self-managed online climate emergency resilience course? I invite you to begin that journey right here, right now. The first step will be to watch two one-hour video presentations which you find further down on this page. But before that, here’s a bit of an introduction to why

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The BBQ-moment for the climate emergency

6 February 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

We talk about the climate emergency’s BBQ-moment in The Sustainable Hour on 6 February 2018: a summer where the climate emergency for the first time is no longer a taboo to talk about at social gatherings

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Australian parents angry about climate threat

4 February 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Petition, Recommendation

Australian Parents for Climate Action demand immediate emergency-scale action from all levels of government and from business to safeguard the future for our children by cutting atmospheric greenhouse emissions to safe levels…

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Cross pollination between youth, extinction rebels and grey-haired councillors

2 February 2019 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

As we enter 2019, three new global climate emergency movements are making headlines: Extinction Rebellion, which started in England in 2018, the council climate emergency declaration campaign, which started in Australia in 2016 and now counts 40 councils, and the school strike movement, which Greta Thunberg started in Sweden in August 2018.

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Coastal community campaigner’s surf into politics

1 February 2019 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

A sustainable hour with Damien Cole where he announces that he is running as an independent for the seat of Corangamite in the upcoming federal election.

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Solar leadership, climate creativity and disruptive vitality

29 January 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 30 January 2019 are Lachlan Magee, energy solutions manager at Choice Solar, Luke Taylor, director of the National Sustainable Living Festival, and Deborah Punton from Greensong Ecopsychology

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Persistent presence in the face of parliamentarians

28 January 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary

Every Friday Caroline Danaher and whoever else joins her on the day sit at a table right in front of the office of their local member of the federal parliament: Sarah Henderson, member for Corangamite, who has her office in Waurn Ponds in the outskirts of Geelong…

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Sustaining the sparkle: connection is everything

23 January 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 23 January 2018 where we celebrate our 250th show are Sue Constable, teacher co-organiser of Earthfest in Ocean Grove, and Caroline Danaher, Geelong’s ‘persistent pensioner’ advocating for climate action

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Caroline Danaher - the persistent climate action campaigner in Geelong

Geelong’s persistent #FridaysForFuture campaigner

23 January 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, Recommendation, World affairs

Caroline Danaher is Geelong’s persistent climate action campaigner, who every Friday sits in front of her local Member of Parliament’s office in support of Greta Thunberg’s #FridaysForFuture school strike.

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70,000 school strikers this week – with more to come

18 January 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

Support for Greta Thunberg’s call keeps rising. Activists from numerous countries are preparing a Global Day for Climate Action on 15 March 2019.

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Recent Posts

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