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Category: Local Geelong matters

The full circle: Live the difference

29 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

This is The Sustainable Hour’s moment. Guests in (the extended) show no 325 are Suzie Brown, Donnie Maclurlan, Peter Vadiveloo and Elizabeth Mellor

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Geelong Council decides on climate action plan

28 July 2020 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Geelong Council’s new climate action plan and policy paper demonstrate a little progress has been made on climate change within the city hall chambers.

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Art and songs push our ideas

22 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Tunnel on 22 July 2020 we meet three artists, who use their art to make a difference and push their ideas somewhere new.

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Loving connections with the natural world

15 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no 323 Four guests in The Tunnel on 15 July 2020. What a packed program today! From time to time over the last 10 weeks, Jackie Matthews has been excitedly telling us how good the ‘Nature Stewards’ course that she has been doing was. How much she has been

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Deliberation means action in the climate emergency

8 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Geelong Councillor Eddy Kontelj is guest in The Sustainable Hour no 322, talking about the municipality’s Plastic Free July and 100% renewables initiatives

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Finding our village built on heart and vision

1 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

An hour in the Sustainable Tunnel with Anglican minister Peter Martin, Geelong Sustainability president Vicki Perrett and Claire Ziegler.

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Geelong’s religious response to climate change

28 June 2020 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

A new initiative presents an opportunity to work with others of faith in responding to the climate crisis in the Geelong region. The Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) is a national interfaith network coordinating faith based climate action on a number of fronts.  To help getting faith-based climate

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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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Deepening democracy

24 June 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Deepening democracy: Our guests in ‘The Tunnel’ today are Anna Langford from Friends of the Earth Melbourne and Sonia Randhawa from the Sortition Foundation and Coalition of Everyone.

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Recent Posts

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  • 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
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  • 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
  • FORCE OF LIFE: Inner work as catalyst for outer change
  • Being a little batty – about responsibility and belonging
  • Be ready for the climate reset
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  • Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being
  • From bushfires to community power – a radio conversation on 94.7 The Pulse
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  • When survival meets policy failure
  • These climate disasters are not an accident
  • Denial meets reality: Victoria enters a state of climate disaster
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