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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

The art of turning a ship despite repeated leadership failures

26 September 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Climate Emergency Warming Room on 26 September is Rosemary Nugent from Humans in Geelong, who gives us all the details about the optimistic Humans’ expo which is held near Geelong Waterfront on Sunday 7 October. We talk sustainable coffee pods with Kayla Mossuto, co-founder and managing director

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UN chief: We are careening towards the edge of the abyss

25 September 2018 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

  “…and this is why I am calling on civil society and young people in particular to campaign for climate action.” ~ Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, 10 September 2018 “What is still missing is the sense of urgency. Let there be no doubt about the urgency of

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Drawdown Australia: A shared narrative for reversing global warming

23 September 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters

Interview with Gene Blackley, who is starting up the ambitious project Drawdown Australia and is looking for people who would like to join him on that journey. The interview was recorded on 18 September 2018 in Melbourne, where Gene Blackley gave a presentation at a Wetland Carbon Workshop at Arthur

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Strike for safety. Climate safety

20 September 2018 Mik Aidt Recommendation, World affairs

“If grown-ups don’t give a shit about my future, I won’t either.” ~ Greta Thunberg “I don’t care if I get into trouble at school. I believe that one person can make a difference.” ~ Greta Thunberg, 15-year-old Swedish student on school strike for the climate Imagine if students or

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#YouthRevolution? #StopAdani? #Drawdown? Yep: #TheTimeHasCome

19 September 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“The time has come / to pay our share.” ~ Midnight Oil, ‘Beds Are Burning’, 1987 The time has come… for a youth revolution, for carbon drawdown and for keeping the climate-wrecking fossils in the ground – which means putting a full stop to the Adani coal megamine in Queensland. Our

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Kids on school strike, councillors in emergency mode

12 September 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

A podcast hour about what happens when we adults – as the school-striking climate campaign oracle Greta Thunberg requests in Sweden – begin to talk about the climate crisis as the global emergency it really is. In this hour, we learn about being aware and about how to keep our emergency messaging

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Working with nature to cultivate system change

5 September 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, Recommendation, World affairs

We had planned to present you with an hour about regenerative farming practices, healthy soils and carbon drawdown solutions. But then the Swedish teenage-oracle Greta Thunberg stepped into our lives, and The Sustainable Hour on 5 September 2018 morphed into a podcast about climate anxiety among the youth and a

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Australia burns. Politicians fiddle. Coal barons laugh

5 September 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary

How do you tackle climate change without actually talking climate change? Government Drought Spokesperson @GretaLeeJackson provides the answers #Tonightly pic.twitter.com/z7q06RShmm — Tonightly (@tonightly) August 30, 2018 Everyone in Australia can see it. It’s not at all funny – though Tom Ballard’s Tonightly segment on the ABC actually is. Those who

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Warming stripes and climate grief

5 September 2018 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs

We have entered September in the year 2018, and as these warming stripes illustrate, the climate which has been a steady backdrop to life on our planet for thousands of years, is beginning to change. If you are among those who “didn’t see this coming”, you should probably start to

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Upcyclability and the idea that we can do better

29 August 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in the Sustainable Studio on 29 August 2018 is upcycle fashionista Diem Huong Young, founder of DHY Design which repurposes clothes in Torquay. Over the phone we connect with La Vergne Lehmann, executive officer for Grampians Central West Waste & Resource Recovery Group in Horsham and Ballarat, and Peter

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Recent Posts

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  • Treaty to take us beyond fossil fuels
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