In the 63th Sustainable Hour we learn that the core of sustainability is just as much about connecting with your local community, having fun and living well as it is about protecting the environment and caring about our carbon pollution.
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.”
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Open letter to religious leaders in Denmark
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