Australian matters – Centre for Climate Safety

The right thing to do

8 April 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Singer Dawn Barrington joins us in The Tunnel with a big picture point of view on what is the right thing to do for Mother Earth, and what decarbonisation has to do with social trust and refugee justice.

Surprising energy news and ideas in The Tunnel

1 April 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 1 April 2020 are Brad Homewood, Coral Bleach and Lignite Pitt QC, Tim Buckley, Petra Goerschel and Silja Nyboe Andersen

Light at the start of The Tunnel

23 March 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters One comment

The Sustainable Hour self-isolates as our ‘mothership’ 94.7 The Pulse FM goes in lockdown. Corona brings havoc and despair, but at the same time, it also has become a gamechanger.

Female artists taking us forward

18 March 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Hour no 305 is Diane Spicer. She is one of the 31 female artists contributing to the ‘What Do You Have To Lose?’

Geelong’s new approach to the climate emergency

11 March 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no 304 with Geelong Mayor Stephanie Asher about her city council’s recent climate emergency declaration

Otways Subterranean National Park – a world’s first

4 March 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our studio guest in The Sustainable Hour on 4 March 2020 is Malcolm Gardiner from the Land & Water Resources Otway Catchments (LAWROC) Landcare group.

Recordings from the Climate Emergency Summit 2020

1 March 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Petition, Recommendation, World affairs

The first Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne was live-streamed on YouTube, and these recordings are now made available in shorter segments, together with an additional set of audio recordings of the break-out sessions.

Geelong grapples with its climate emergency declaration

26 February 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

On 25 February 2020, Geelong Council declared a climate emergency. Guest in the sustainable studio on 26 February is Monica Winston from Transition Streets Geelong.

THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: An economist’s call for naturism

22 February 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

Jim Sampson is a 73-year-old retired economist, and a business entrepreneur, who has written a 56-page document, Naturism, where he suggests “a framework for solutions to the climate crisis”.