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Category: Local Geelong matters

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.

Open blogpost

Australia’s transformative, green and ground-up energy revolution

22 October 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 569 is Dr Philippa England, a clean-energy trailblazer from Queensland.

Open blogpost

GET LOUD – Women at the heart of the green transition

15 October 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 568 are Lauren Dillon and Jodie Hill.

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PREPARE FOR IMPACT – Australia’s climate risk reality check

8 October 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 567 is Neil Plummer, who discusses Australia’s new national climate risk assessment

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FORCE OF LIFE: Reinventing our world with a senior uprise, peace of mind, pride, and awe

1 October 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters 2 comments

Interview with Danish author Tor Nørretranders – exploring what it means to act in service to life on Earth.

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Geelong Connection Café to strengthen community resilience

26 September 2025 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

At our September gathering, a small group of locals in Geelong made an important decision: our long-running Climate Café will now be known as the Geelong Connection Café. Why the change? Because words matter. While climate is central to our concerns, the word often carries a weight of crisis and

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New relations: Language, love and the roots of our climate crisis

24 September 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 566 is Ramandeep Sibia from Punjabis for Climate and Warm Data Lab.

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Days of sun, sustainability and solutions

17 September 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 565 is Ruth Blackhirst from Geelong Sustainability, organiser of Sustainable House Day

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Tiny homes, huge hearts – resilience and joy in community living

10 September 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 564 are Rochelle Ryan from Australian Tiny House Association and Andy Greig from Swift Tiny Homes.

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The Sustainable Climate Song Contest Hour 2025

3 September 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

What happens when climate activists turn into songwriters – and then ask their audience to vote?

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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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