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Category: Commentary

This… is the solution

13 January 2021 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs

A 2021 New Year’s contemplation by the director of Centre for Climate Safety, as he listens to Greta Thunberg’s call to action, “Try to learn as much as you possibly can – and spread that knowledge and awareness to others.”

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Travel advisory alert

20 October 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

For your in-fight entertainment, the Flight Free Australia crew have just published this two-minute “I will help Australia…” travel advisory alert video

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Climate safety – who cares

12 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Educational One comment

Today I did something I’ve never done before. I did an angry podcast, and put myself in front of the microphone most of the way. My mood was triggered by a couple things.

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Bryony Edwards: Run as a climate candidate

28 June 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

The 24th Regenerative Hour features excerpts from a zoom-presentation by climate emergency candidate Bryony Edwards from CACE and professor Will Steffen from Australia National University and the Climate Council, along with excerpts from Greta Thunberg’s ‘Summer Talk 2020’

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Quinn Earth Child: Radical sustainability in suburbia

25 June 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters

In the 23rd Regenerative Hour, Mik meets the 23-year-old artist, musician and environmental consultant Quinn Earth Child at his home in the suburb Norlane in northern Geelong.

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Tom O’Connor: Who do we want to be

19 June 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational, Recommendation

Guest in our 22nd Regenerative Hour is Tom O’Connor, a former Geelong councillor, swimming coach and an active local community organiser, who lives in Drysdale on the Bellarine Peninsula. He will run for the Geelong Council election in August 2020.

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The storychanging case for a Green Recovery

29 May 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

Clippings from the newsstream and research about what a ‘green recovery’ means – and how it can improve our quality of life

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Shane Ward: Better systems thinking for a resilient future

29 May 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational, Recommendation

Can we turn the 2020s into ‘The Regenerative Decade’? In this series of interviews about what that would imply, we talk ecology, deep adaptation, grief, compassion and passion, connecting with nature, resilience, revitalisation, restoration, revolution… – the bigger picture, in other words. “Find your village!” says our guest in the

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Tim Hollo: Growing up through the common

13 May 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Educational One comment

Guest in our 19th Regenerative Hour is Tim Hollo, Executive Director of the Green Institute. An hour about how we can build a better world once we are coming out of the Covid tunnel, and about what it will take to start the transformation.

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John Merory: Neurological doctor’s climate call

9 May 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary

An hour with Dr John Merory – the highly experienced neurologist who became a whole-hearted climate activist

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