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Category: Local Geelong matters

Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being

31 January 2026 Guest writer Local Geelong matters Leave a comment

Interview with Mik Aidt about his 23-minute audio artwork ‘Bats and Being’,

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From bushfires to community power – a radio conversation on 94.7 The Pulse

24 January 2026 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters Leave a comment

Rob Cameron interviews Mik Aidt about the recent bushfires and the new Voices of Corio community independent initiative.

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Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa

17 December 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 576 are permaculture teacher Jessica Perini and refugee leaders Eric Hakizimana in Uganda and Ruth Akinyi in Kenya.

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A YEAR IN SONG: The soundtrack of The Sustainable Hour 2025

10 December 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour no. 575 we mark the launch of 50 of our songs on Spotify, Apple and Amazon music: ‘The Force of Life Collective’.

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CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power

26 November 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest is environmentalist and poet Georgina Woods, Head of Research and Investigations at Lock the Gate Alliance.

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In kindness, respect, understanding and trust

19 November 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 573 is community builder Kate Shelton, founder of Peacemeals.

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FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment

12 November 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In this second episode of The Force of Life podcast series, writer, philosopher, and sociologist Barbara Lepani explains what she calls ‘enlivenment’.

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Treaty and protestival – listening for change

12 November 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 572 are Rory Bush-Belton from Rising Tide and Cam Walker from Friends of the Earth Naarm/Melbourne.

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Fighting Australia’s carbon bomb – choosing courage over cowardice

5 November 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 571 is environmental lawyer Adam Beeson from the Australian Conservation Foundation

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BE BRUTALLY HONEST. The climate reality we must face

29 October 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 570 is former fossil fuel executive turned climate truth-teller, Ian Dunlop.

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Recent Posts

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  • Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being
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  • 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
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  • Australia’s transformative, green and ground-up energy revolution
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  • New relations: Language, love and the roots of our climate crisis
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  • Tiny homes, huge hearts – resilience and joy in community living
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