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Category: Commentary

Redefine conservatism: change to preserve

25 January 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

If we genuinely want to conserve, we have no choice but to change.

Open blogpost

America’s transformation

22 January 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary One comment

Trump is back. But wait, the full American story hasn’t been written yet.

Open blogpost

NSW Government’s ‘Natural Disaster’ Declaration masks the real emergency

19 January 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

A call for truth in public broadcasting. We cannot solve a crisis we refuse to name. The science is clear, and so too should be our language.

Open blogpost

Behind the smoke

11 September 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

The truth behind language: The real impact of ‘turbocharging’ and ‘incineration’.

Open blogpost

In the winds of change, we build windmills – not walls

24 July 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

A Chinese proverb highlights two distinct approaches to change.

Open blogpost

Mental health repercussions of climate inaction

1 May 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

Members of the community are encouraged to send a letter about mental health and climate to their local respresentatives in Parliament

Open blogpost

Embracing balance in the age of melting

4 January 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

As we look into 2024, where humanity faces its greatest challenge ever, let’s carry with us the lessons and successes of the year that went.

Open blogpost

Welcome to 2024: The year of the Teal

3 January 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

How long will we keep fiddling while our homes burn and drown? We have to become the architects of a new story.

Open blogpost

Beyond domestic targets: Urgent need for leadership

2 December 2023 Alan Barlee & Mik Aidt Commentary

Australia’s escalating exports of coal and LNG is a climate wrecking factor which dwarfs our domestic emissions.

Open blogpost

That’s not what COPs are for

30 November 2023 Robert C. Hinkley Commentary, World affairs

COP28 is shaping up as The Predator’s Ball II. That’s not what COPs are for. Their purpose is to find a way to stop the emissions.

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • 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
  • 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

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