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Category: Australian matters

Electricity rules not keeping pace with technology

11 December 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Petition, Recommendation

“Fix the voltage to 230, reduce emissions with 3 million tonnes of CO2 per year and save money,” suggests electrical engineer Ty Christopher, Strategic Adviser at Ecojoule, in this podcast interview.

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Energy reality check, gas resistance and ecorestoration

9 December 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters One comment

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 344 are David Spratt, Sal Fisher and Elly Tucker for talks about Climate Reality Check 2020, Gas Free Geelong and Ecosystem Restoration Camps.

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Surfing a new wave of energy and action

2 December 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour on 2 December 2020, our special guest is elite surfer Adrian (Ace) Buchan.

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Counter business as usual

25 November 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 342 are Anisa Rogers from Blockade IMARC, Carina Mammone from Tomorrow Movement and Saimon Boyle from Urban Farm and House.

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Paving the way to climate leadership

18 November 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in the Tunnel on 18 November 2020 are two extraordinary climate leaders who are paving the way

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Separated by borders – united in vision

11 November 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Sonia KcKay, Margaret Fleck and Lynn Benn prepare us for the National Day of Action against new fossil fuels and former A League player Chris Harold speaks out about his climate concerns.

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Momentum for koalas, surfers, athletes and nature

4 November 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no 339 with Janine Duffy, president of the Koala Clancy Foundation, Belinda Baggs, founder of Surfers for Climate, and Craig Foster, the face of soccer for many years on SBS News.

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The Sustainable Disaster Hour

28 October 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

We take an encouraging step on the Stairway to Hiatus in The Tunnel this week. Together with our three guests we discover how to live – and live well – in the climate emergency. Welcome to our first ‘Sustainable Disaster Hour’!

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Let’s change our practices and the way we do things

21 October 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour no 337 on 21 October 2020 we have two people closely associated with the making of the award-winning film ‘In My Blood It Runs‘: Traditional elder William Tilmouth and the film’s director Maya Newell.

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Change of mindset to take Geelong forward

14 October 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Geelong Council candidates Tom O’Connor and Stephanie Asher together with Carl Obst, director of IDEEA Group, give their views on what will take the municipality forward.

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Recent Posts

  • 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
  • RUN FOR COUNTRY – ice cream in a fight against fracking
  • 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
  • Inner work as catalyst for outer change
  • Being a little batty – about responsibility and belonging
  • Be ready for the climate reset
  • Staying cool, staying safe: what electrifying our homes really means
  • Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being
  • From bushfires to community power – a radio conversation on 94.7 The Pulse
  • Australian cowardice at the highest level
  • Meaning that will move us
  • When survival meets policy failure
  • These climate disasters are not an accident
  • Denial meets reality: Victoria enters a state of climate disaster
  • Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa
  • Geelong Advertiser: Paid misinformation on climate
  • A YEAR IN SONG: The soundtrack of The Sustainable Hour 2025
  • CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
  • FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery
  • In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
  • The bats and humans who belong – in Geelong
  • FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment
  • Treaty and protestival – listening for change
  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “Fuck hope. What’s the strategy?”
  • The Climate Safety Plan – ensuring no one is left behind
  • Trash talkers and trauma – how small actions combat climate anxiety
  • Fighting Australia’s carbon bomb – choosing courage over cowardice
  • BE BRUTALLY HONEST. The climate reality we must face
  • From fighting for the climate to serving life on Earth

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