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Category: Commentary

Clarifying ‘climate’ – and what we do about it

7 September 2023 Mik Aidt Commentary

How is the understanding of ‘climate’ being clarified by various climate groups and advocates? – and what are climate campaigners suggesting we should do about it?

Open blogpost

Uprising, resistance, rebellion, and system change calls

24 August 2023 Mik Aidt Commentary

The era of global boiling on Twitter/X has arrived. Temperatures of anger and frustration are rising.

Open blogpost

Individual actions are critical

19 February 2023 Lily Dempster Commentary

Individual behavior change is critical to prevent 2°C degrees of warming. It’s just as important as top-down political reform, writes Lily Dempster, founder and CEO of the One Small Step app.

Open blogpost

#JustStopOil: If they will not stop new oil and gas projects, we will

25 August 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

“Now is the time to resist the biggest act of criminality in human history,” say British JustStopOil campaigners as they sabotage petrol stations and block a tunnel under an oil terminal.

Open blogpost

Surfers: End all search and new drilling for fossil fuels

24 August 2022 Guest writer Australian matters, Commentary, Petition

Surfers across Australia are opposing a proposed seismic survey for oil and gas in the Bass Strait, covering an area of pristine ocean larger than Tasmania, because of the danger to marine life.

Open blogpost

Gaslighting Geelong: accusations of betrayal

5 August 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters, Petition

Local community groups are outraged that GeelongPort has entered into a commercial agreement with Viva Energy to extend Refinery Pier for a proposed gas import terminal

Open blogpost

The Sustainable Hour’s presentation to the Gashub Inquiry Committee

21 July 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary

We played this video for the Viva Energy Gas Terminal Inquiry and Advisory Committee on 21 July 2022. Transcript below. → If you agree with us that this gas terminal should not be allowed to go ahead, you can add your name to this petition: www.parliament.vic.gov.au/view-sign-e-petitions/details/12/457 → Also, Greenpeace runs

Open blogpost

Highlights of EV and circular living show

7 May 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary

Interview excerpts of the live-streaming from the ‘Show and Shine EV and Circular Living’ event at Geelong Showgrounds on 30 April 2022.

Open blogpost

Gas in one hand, carbon-neutral in the other

1 March 2022 Guest writer Commentary, Local Geelong matters 3 comments

How is it that Geelong Council “has not yet decided” what it should think about Viva Energy’s proposed new fossil fuel project?

Open blogpost

The time is now: End climate betrayal

3 November 2021 Mik Aidt Commentary

Greta Thunberg’s message from Glasgow: “People are mobilising and rising together”.

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

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  • FORCE OF LIFE: Reinventing our world with a senior uprise, peace of mind, pride, and awe
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • Because local matters
  • State of the climate in 2025: telling it as it is
  • Cinematic call to reconnect with nature
  • The key of empathy: climate action with kindness and courage
  • Court: If you dig it up, you own the damage
  • Open letter to Viva Energy – about gas, jobs and Geelong’s future
  • Involving citizens in the green transition is key
  • Gas expansion versus people-powered change
  • Business sector to demystify the three letters of ESG
  • Beyond the words: What happens after a climate emergency is declared?

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