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Category: Local Geelong matters

A city waves goodbye to ‘business as usual’

7 May 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters 2 comments

During the next decades, the Geelong city and region is going to transform itself to become a ‘clever and creative city’ if things go as decided by an assembly of 350 local residents who gathered on 6 May 2017 to choose between four proposed future scenarios. If you live in

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Invitation to Geelong community meeting on 24 May: Stop Adani

5 May 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Together we stopped fracking in our area. When enough people stand up, politicians listen. Now we will join thousands of Australians to stop Adani’s insane, climate-destroying coal mine. Come to this meeting to see the documentary ‘Guarding the Galilee’ and hear how you can help! WHAT FUTURE DO WE WANT

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Cyclones, cyclists, zero carbon and a coal baron

5 May 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

A Sustainable Hour around cycling without helmets, road safety, zero carbon, cyclones, coal and climate change – and a butterfly whisperer who laughs in our face about the prospect of him facing a climate crimes tribunal. Interviews with comedian Mandy Nolan about cyclones and the #StopAdani campaign, and with Danish road

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Geelong now has a Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy

1 May 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

The new strategy provides a target for the City of Greater Geelong council: in three years, by 2020, council must halve carbon emissions from its buildings and vehicle fleet. With the release of its new Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy for the period 2017–20, the City of Greater Geelong council wants

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To care or not to care. That’s the question

28 April 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 26 April 2017 are: Dorthe Pedersen, co-founder of Cycling Without Age, Tim Buckley, industry analyst from Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, Guy Abrahams, CEO of Climarte and director of the festival ‘Arts+Climate=Change’, and Graeme Stockton, co-organiser of

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The transformative effect of cycling with neighbours across all ages

28 April 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“We need to understand that we are together in this, and I think Cycling Without Age can actually bring that across.” ~ Dorthe Pedersen, co-founder of Cycling Without Age Transcript of interview with Dorthe Pedersen The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 26 April 2017 Dorthe Pedersen: “I’ve been

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Refinery’s social license up for public discussion

27 April 2017 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters One comment

An utterly offensive disgrace of last century’s technology that lost its social license to pollute long ago…? …or a company the city can be proud of? Viva Energy obviously thought it was worth thousands of dollars to see if they could convince Geelong’s residents to think the latter. Recently Geelong

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Harnessing the power of the arts for change

21 April 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

“What arts can do is create a climate where action becomes necessary,” says festival director Guy Abrahams of the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE festival which opened in Victoria, Australia, on 19 April 2017. In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, he explained about the festival’s aims and intentions – and he told about

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Podcast to council and youth leaders: Meet the climate realists

17 April 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters One comment

“We’ve got to be realists, if you’re going to live with the butterflies you’re going to die with the butterflies.” ~ Barnaby Joyce, The Nationals leader, warning those “that oppose fossil fuels” Welcome to the new reality-concept in Australian politics, introduced by Barnaby Joyce: fake realism. Genuine realists in The

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Thought leadership: How local councils crunch the climate stalemate

11 April 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

While the Australian Coal Circus is getting more and more bizarre, with a federal government claiming that wind turbines increase carbon emissions, and that more coal is a great investment, the first Victorian councils are now sending a clear message of sanity to stop the proposed construction of the world’s

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Recent Posts

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  • BE COLLECTIVE – power, climate and the necessity of cooperation
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