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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

Winds of change with people at the centre

3 October 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, World affairs

“Tell everyone we have a plan” UN Global Goals advertisement Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 92: » To open or download this programme in mp3-format, right-click here (Mac: CTRL + click) » Subscribe to ‘The Sustainable Hour’ podcast — via iTunes or via your own podcast/RSS software G21 Stakeholder

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Follow the sun and which way the wind blows

27 September 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

On 23 September 2015, The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse follows the sun and the way the wind currently blows, which is in the direction of better understanding of the benefits of cycling, wind energy, new forms of energy storage, and what food can do to open up new

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Aussie kids to world leaders: ‘Don’t ruin our home’

20 September 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 16 September 2015 we report from the Second Sustainability Party at Sydenham-Hillside Primary School. We have interviews with the Climate Guardian Angels from ClimActs, who are taking kids’ letters to the UN Climate Summit in Paris in December, with Beyond Zero

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Crunch time: Modern technology meets Australia’s ‘amazing’ coal

11 September 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters

“The refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe gives us a sobering glimpse of what a less stable world looks like.” OurVoices.net In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 9 September 2015 we listen to excerpts from inspirational climate change speeches held during the last week by

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Yet another exploration licence for coal? It feels like betrayal

7 September 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary 2 comments

 Update on 7 September 2015:    Response from Lily D’Ambrosio MP  22 June 2015 Dear Daniel Andrews, Premier, and Lily D’Ambrosio, Minister for Energy and Resources, I am vigorously supporting a recent letter to you from Mik Aidt (Geelong) reproduced and slightly edited below – with some additional points following.

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Treating the planet as if it was the only one we’ve got

5 September 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

An hour’s podcast about Enviroweek and youth environmental action, plastic bag free towns, the eight million tonnes of plastic which are entering our oceans every year, and how we transition away from both single use plastic bags and fossil fuels. Guests in the The Sustainable Hour on 2 September 2015

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Houston, we have… a huge gap!

1 September 2015 Mik Aidt Educational One comment

Those climate goals our politicians keep talking about don’t match with the climate reality. There is a huge gap between what the world needs for climate restoration, and where we are heading. At best, Paris will deliver commitments that will lead to over 3°C degrees of warming. The United Nations’

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Targeting the target confusion

29 August 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

This is Geelong calling. We say it is time to change the way we talk about renewables and emissions targets. First of all, we need to stop the confusing use of percentages in relation to a specific year. Instead, when we all express our results and targets in carbon-tonnes per

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Sun-powered: It is happening on the roof tops

24 August 2015 Mik Aidt Educational, Local Geelong matters

Every week in Australia, 3,000 new roof top solar systems are switched on. 1.4 million Australian homes are sun-powered by now, and they are increasingly being helped by cheaper solar batteries to store the energy locally, and Internet-based technology to supervise it. The solar industry is on the verge of

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200,000 Australian kids taking action: enviro week

23 August 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Local Geelong matters

As part of Cool Australia’s national enviro week, Geelong High School are having a small expo on 3 September 2015, open to all students during their homegroup period. If there are any environment related organisations interested in setting up a display/stall and talking to students about their issue or cause

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Recent Posts

  • TUNING IN TO EARTH DAY at The Pulse
  • BE COLLECTIVE – power, climate and the necessity of cooperation
  • POWER UP – reclaiming energy, democracy and community
  • POWER OF IMAGINATION in a world on edge
  • RUN FOR COUNTRY – ice cream in a fight against fracking
  • FESTIVALS OF CHANGE – from climate worry to community action 
  • TAKE ACTION FOR EARTH – defending the swift parrot
  • BE DIFFICULT – balancing the scales for climate justice
  • When the emergency becomes our new reality
  • Inner work as catalyst for outer change
  • Being a little batty – about responsibility and belonging
  • Be ready for the climate reset
  • Staying cool, staying safe: what electrifying our homes really means
  • Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being
  • From bushfires to community power – a radio conversation on 94.7 The Pulse
  • Australian cowardice at the highest level
  • Meaning that will move us
  • When survival meets policy failure
  • These climate disasters are not an accident
  • Denial meets reality: Victoria enters a state of climate disaster
  • Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa
  • Geelong Advertiser: Paid misinformation on climate
  • A YEAR IN SONG: The soundtrack of The Sustainable Hour 2025
  • CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
  • FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery
  • In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
  • The bats and humans who belong – in Geelong
  • FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment
  • Treaty and protestival – listening for change
  • 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
  • From fighting for the climate to serving life on Earth

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