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Category: Local Geelong matters

Election candidates discuss climate and renewables

12 November 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

“Climate change is a political choice.” ~ Mike Smyth, Chair of Energy4All, speaking at the Community Energy Conference in the United Kingdom in 2015   If you are going to vote in the Victorian state election, which is just around the corner now, we hope you will spend a bit

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On the lookout for the sustainable anthem of 2018

6 November 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“The time has come!” The sustainable revolution is happening, and the youth are coming out – making sit-ins and going on school strike for the climate. So we’re saying: Just like the youth revolution back in the 1960s had its anthems, where is the ‘sustainable anthem’ or ‘climate action song’

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Synchronised inaction and a recycling convention

31 October 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 31 October 2018 is Ken Dickens, managing director of Corio Waste Management. Paul Wittwer explains that the National Day of Inaction on 30 November 2018 is actually a day of climate action. Australian school kids go on school strike tomorrow. We play an excerpt

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Living the Encyclical call for change

26 October 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

Irish-Columbian missionary priest and well-known eco-theologian Sean McDonagh explores Pope Francis’ encyclical by touching on the moral and spiritual aspects on what it means to be a Christian in the 21st century by caring for the Earth. Father McDonagh offers his take on Laudato Si’ in his book, ‘On Care

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A new model that makes the existing model obsolete

24 October 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller, American author (1895–1983) In The Sustainable Hour on 24 October 2018, we receive a letter from 14-year-old Harriet and Milou in Castlemaine, who are

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Care for our common home – with climate action

23 October 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Glimpses from the climate change and sustainability forum ‘Care for Our Common Home’ at Geelong West Town Hall on 11 October 2018. Jasper Harris » Share this on Facebook and Youtube 15-year-old Jasper Harris’ five-minute speech at the climate change and sustainability forum. Jasper is a Year 10 student at

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The renewable turnaround time

17 October 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 17 October 2018 are Damien Cole – a surfer, campaigner against oil drilling in the Bight and independent South Barwon candidate in the November state election – and Peter Cowling, Vesta’s Country Head for Australia and New Zealand. We also play a clip with

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Sustainable House Day in Geelong 2018: Video

14 October 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

The tenth annual Sustainable House Day in Geelong was truly a sustainable ‘house learning’ festival bonanza for the community – and the community was ready to dig into it: 800 people had preregistered to attend, and numbers broke all previous records this year. How do we transition to a more sustainable

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Community opens its doors to sustainable housing

11 October 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

An hour about Sustainable House Day Geelong, the Sun Bear Festival in Anglesea, and more Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 10 October 2018 are two house owners who open their homes on Sunday 14 October: Kerri Erler from Teesdale, Stephen Williams from Manifold Heights, and energy assessment expert Dan

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Joy of living the change in a tiny house

10 October 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 3 October 2018 are Vicki Perrett, president of Geelong Sustainability and coordinator of Sustainable House Day Geelong, together with Peter Clapinski from Tiny Homes Geelong & Bellarine, for a talk about why he is so passionate about this idea to build tiny houses. We

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