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Author: Mik Aidt

Mik is a journalist and blogger. Used to live in Denmark many years. Spent almost four years in Africa. Has visited some 55 countries around the planet. Now settled in Australia with his family. Mik became a sustainability and climate change blogger because he became a father of three beautiful 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 Aidt on https://climatesafety.info/about

People, power and tipping points: Anglesea residents want a say

20 June 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

It is solstice, a turning point – and in Anglesea as well as globally, it is ‘coalstice’. The beginning of the end for using coal to produce electricity. The 77th Sustainable Hour on 17 June 2015 on 94.7 The Pulse

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Praise of an ecological teaching letter to the world from the Pope

20 June 2015 Mik Aidt World affairs

  The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 18, 2015 The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile

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Anglesea says “goodbye coal – welcome transformation”

10 June 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, World affairs One comment

An hour on 94.7 The Pulse about what’s next after the successful campaign to have the coal-fired Anglesea power station and coal mine closed down – about the transformation in community, wildlife, heathland and nature, with disappearing species, disconnectedness and

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From Hawaii and Denmark to Geelong: Incentives in the community

3 June 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

We invited community planner Pat Onesta from Hawaii, who recently moved to the Surf Coast, to be our guest in the 75th Sustainable Hour for a talk about communities and renewable energy projects, energy efficiency, eliminating waste and about how

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The grassroots’ revolution: People power in progress

27 May 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Local Geelong matters One comment

Warming up to the UN conference in Paris in December 2015, the 74th Sustainable Hour was an hour about climate change, justice and betrayal, pollution and apocolypse, onshore gas mining, the documentary films ‘Frackman’ and ‘Voices from the Gasfields’, with

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Speaking of community-owned renewable energy in Geelong

20 May 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters 2 comments

On 15 April 2015, around 30 people met at South Barwon Community Centre to discuss the possibilities of starting up a community-owned renewable energy project in Geelong. Below you can listen to excerpts from the meeting – in shape of separate

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Forum about active transport and walkability in Geelong

13 May 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters

What’s happening with regard to public transport, cycling infrastructure and walking activities in the Geelong region? A forum with the title ‘Active Transport: Past, Present & Future’ was held on 22 April 2015 at Beav’s Bar in Geelong to provide

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Resource-smart schools and the revelation of composting

8 May 2015 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

The 71st Sustainable Hour on 6 May 2015 marks the International Composting Awareness Week and the International Permaculture Day. In previous weeks we have talked with primary and high school students, Cool Australia and Kids Teaching Kids. Today, we are

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The climate fight in a nutshell

3 May 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

…or rather, in the shell of a caravan. In a caravan camouflaged as an island, that is. A Maldivian island, threatened by rising sea water levels. Currently placed on Federation Square, the pumping heart of Melbourne. By a Dane. Confused?

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Inspiring future environmental leaders: kids teaching kids

1 May 2015 Mik Aidt Educational

Kids Teaching Kids is a great idea. It aims to inspire future environmental leaders by connecting and challenging students with real world issues, inspiring them to want to know more. This is how it works: First give school students the

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