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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

Now spreadable: Geelong’s clever and creative future vision

27 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour on 26 July 2017, Geelong’s Chief Administrator Dr Kathy Alexander and Dr Simone Boer, who is Manager of Strategy and Program Delivery in City of Greater Geelong, talk about the new 30-year vision for Geelong. Erin ‘Rogue Ginger’ Rhoads talks about living a zero waste life

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It’s about Our Future

26 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Local Geelong matters

The ‘Our Future’ vision for Geelong is a challenge of a lifetime – but we can do it. Geelong is about to find out whether politics and votes can be determined not by the usual short-term election promises which everyone knows are unlikely to be fulfilled anyway, but by daring

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Delusional podcasters delve in natural climate solutions

23 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

On 19 July 2017 in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we delve in natural and agricultural solutions to the climate change crisis. We have our regenerative studio phone lined up to Verity Morgan-Schmidt, the newly appointed CEO of Australian Farmers for Climate Action, and to natural sequence farming

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Community in the offing to stop Adani

14 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Stephen Higgs, former principal of Ballarat Grammar, explains why he and the newly formed community alliance #StopAdani Geelong has set a goal to stop the construction of Adani’s $16 billion dollar coal mine in Queensland. But this is not just another protest movement, this is active citizenship driven by passion

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Bike safety first

10 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Local Geelong matters

More and more Australians would like to harness the tremendous benefits of biking, such as physical and mental well-being, clean air and climate safety. As the photo above shows, which is from Geelong in the 1950s, Australians actually were used to commute in that way – in those days mostly because

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Coining the phrase of climate change

10 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“Aren’t we already we at the point of no return with making our planet uninhabitable?” Narrative navigation: Why does it have to be a choice between either Heaven, Hell or Hoax when politicians and climate action campaigners talk about the future? What if plain honesty – and the fact that

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Learning to bee cooperative and plastic free

6 July 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

As we have entered Plastic Free July, our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 5 July 2017 are Mark Colley from Golden Plains Honey and Heidi Taylor from Tangaroa Blue Foundation, joined by Jack Nyhof, our sustainable youth reporter, and Rusty who explains about a newly launched Urban Food Trail

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Scandinavians take legislative steps to slash their carbon emissions

30 June 2017 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

Sweden On 15 June 2017, the Swedish Parliament took a decision on the most important climate reform in the country’s history. Sweden committed to cutting its net carbon emissions to zero by 2045, becoming the first country to significantly upgrade its carbon ambitions since the Paris Agreement in 2015. The

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Journeys to eco-solutions

29 June 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our clever and creative guests in the sustainable studio on 28 June 2017 are: Dr Mazher Iqbal Mohammed, known by friends and colleagues as Iqy, a Research Fellow at School of Engineering at Deakin University, who explains to us how plastic waste material can be turned into 3D ‘eco-printing’. And

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War on plastic, coal and climate disaster

23 June 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Joining us in the sustainable studio on 21 June 2017: David Spratt, co-author of the new report ‘Disaster Alley: Climate change, conflict and risk’, for a talk about the publication and a new Senate inquiry, and as Plastic Free July approaches, Robert Skehan from Plastic Bag Free Victoria gives us an

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Recent Posts

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  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “Fuck hope. What’s the strategy?”
  • The Climate Safety Plan – ensuring no one is left behind
  • Trash talkers and trauma – how small actions combat climate anxiety
  • Fighting Australia’s carbon bomb – choosing courage over cowardice
  • BE BRUTALLY HONEST. The climate reality we must face
  • FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment
  • From fighting for the climate to serving life on Earth
  • Australia’s transformative, green and ground-up energy revolution
  • GET LOUD – Women at the heart of the green transition
  • PREPARE FOR IMPACT – Australia’s climate risk reality check
  • FORCE OF LIFE: Reinventing our world with a senior uprise, peace of mind, pride, and awe
  • Rethinking the path to change
  • Cost of the fossil con
  • Geelong Connection Café to strengthen community resilience
  • New relations: Language, love and the roots of our climate crisis
  • Get involved with the Climate Rescue Accord
  • Days of sun, sustainability and solutions
  • Tiny homes, huge hearts – resilience and joy in community living
  • The Sustainable Climate Song Contest Hour 2025
  • Green transition, trust and togetherness in Denmark
  • Bold steps, tiny homes and zero waste futures
  • THE CLIMATE REVOLUTION: Revolutionary politics rooted in service to life on Earth
  • A voice to Australia’s silent climate majority
  • Working with nature – not against it
  • Legal revolution for the planet – and a call from the butt hunters
  • World court shakes the system: corporate lawyer sees climate breakthrough
  • International court puts Australia in the hot seat
  • Wake up and fight
  • Time to wake up: How fossil fuel money captured democracy and blocked climate action
  • HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE? Healing the land with plants and water
  • Crafting climatesafe communities
  • RICHER THAN BEFORE: Building renewable economies
  • Our six pathways to a liveable and climatesafe future
  • First Nations voices rise for treaty, truth and climate healing

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