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Category: Local Geelong matters

Green cleaning in a bubbling uprising

13 June 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Wellness advocates Misty Barth from Witchy Brews and Sarah Bradford from Earth Love Gratitude are our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 13 June 2018. Colin Mockett shares his global outlook with us – today he examines the new Climate Change Performance Index from Germanwatch and Melbourne’s bikeshare flop. We

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Bring soils into the conversation

8 June 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

A regenerative hour about stable soil sinks versus ‘coke of the farming world’ – with Chris Balazs from Sage Farm, Cindy Eiritz from Healthy Soils, permaculture singer and songwriter Charlie Mgee from Formidable Vegetable Sound System, and Colin Mockett from 94.7 The Pulse. “Oil drives you crazy. Oil corrupts politics.

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Upcycling, downshifting and climatically having a go

31 May 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in the Sustainable Hour no 218 are: Claire Ziegler, a member of Geelong Sustainability, the Repair Cafe in Highton and organiser of a World Environment Day event, and Colin Mockett, who is just back from Shanghai and has a great story to tell about what has happened there in

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Starting small and working our way up

26 May 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

An existential Sustainable Hour with James McLennan, education program manager at The Farmer’s Place and ResourceSmart Schools coordinator, talking about climate change, leadership, kids with ‘nature deficit disorder’, the idea of taking fossil fuel executives bushwalking and how 60 out of the 250 schools in Barwon South-West are hugely benefitting

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People-powered solutions saving on emissions and money

16 May 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“Decarbonisation is the great task of our generation and Costa Rica must be one of the first countries in the world to accomplish it, if not the first.” ~ Carlos Alvarado, President of Costa Rica, May 2018 Find out what the renewable energy revolution looks like from the inside. Today

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Replacing Big Energy with community solar

15 May 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

The Geelong Community Solar Rebellion Why I am interested in this community solar program Interviews with Jen Fuller, Sheryl Biddle and Lindsey Fuller recorded after Alex Georgiou’s presentation at Geelong Library on 14 May 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Bypassing the carbon paralysis

6 May 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“The fossil fuel industry has become the public enemy number one. They are not paying for the destruction that they are causing. And that is one of the biggest subsidies to the industry.” ~ Dr John Iser, Victorian chair, Doctors for the Environment The Sustainable Hour on 9 May 2018

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Waste is in the air

4 May 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour on 2 May 2018, Corio Waste Management CEO Ken Dickens shares his insight into the disruptions that are going on in the Australian recycling sector at the moment – a recording from Geelong Sustainability’s Green Drinks event in March. The countdown to breaking our old habits

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Sow beauty and free energy, not pollution and destruction

26 April 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Replacing Big Energy with community solar. Podcast about the community rebellion. Our guest in the sustainable studio on 25 April 2018 is Geelong Sustainability’s project manager Dan Cowdell, who has great news about ‘CORE Geelong One’ – a newly launched solar investor program which raised $150,000 in a week – and

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Homage to Earth – and one lawyer’s call for action

20 April 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Sunday 22 April is supposed to be Earth’s day and all about how we secure a future free of plastic pollution. Meanwhile, we, the human species on Earth, appear to have arrived at our ‘now-or-never moment’ as far as our plastic and air pollution is concerned. Guests and segments in

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