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Category: Australian matters

Loving connections with the natural world

15 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no 323 Four guests in The Tunnel on 15 July 2020. What a packed program today! From time to time over the last 10 weeks, Jackie Matthews has been excitedly telling us how good the ‘Nature Stewards’ course that she has been doing was. How much she has been

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Climate safety – who cares

12 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Educational One comment

Today I did something I’ve never done before. I did an angry podcast, and put myself in front of the microphone most of the way. My mood was triggered by a couple things.

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Deliberation means action in the climate emergency

8 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Geelong Councillor Eddy Kontelj is guest in The Sustainable Hour no 322, talking about the municipality’s Plastic Free July and 100% renewables initiatives

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Promising results from a citizens’ climate convention

3 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Recommendation, World affairs

Citizens’ Climate Conventions – also known as citizens’ assemblies on climate – are emerging as the new norm for legitimate and quality decision-making in many democratic forums around the world. Is the climate movement paying attention?

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Finding our village built on heart and vision

1 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

An hour in the Sustainable Tunnel with Anglican minister Peter Martin, Geelong Sustainability president Vicki Perrett and Claire Ziegler.

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Bryony Edwards: Run as a climate candidate

28 June 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

The 24th Regenerative Hour features excerpts from a zoom-presentation by climate emergency candidate Bryony Edwards from CACE and professor Will Steffen from Australia National University and the Climate Council, along with excerpts from Greta Thunberg’s ‘Summer Talk 2020’

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Deepening democracy

24 June 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Deepening democracy: Our guests in ‘The Tunnel’ today are Anna Langford from Friends of the Earth Melbourne and Sonia Randhawa from the Sortition Foundation and Coalition of Everyone.

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We can do better than this

17 June 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 319 on 17 June 2020 are Belinda Noble and Lidia Thorpe.

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‘Do better’-principles connect us

10 June 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

A Sustainable Hour about bushfire horrors, resilience, Returner Cups, ‘We can do better’ principles that connect us – and what the Earth can teach us

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Protectors of the land

3 June 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Welcome listeners and readers. The Sustainable Hour team of Mik, Jackie, Colin & Tony welcome you to show no 317. The first of our three guests on 3 June 2020 is Anika Molesworth who helps run her parents’ station near Broken Hill. Anika is a natural leader. She was one of

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Recent Posts

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  • Tuning in to Earth Day at The Pulse
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  • POWER OF IMAGINATION in a world on edge
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  • 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
  • FORCE OF LIFE: 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
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  • Meaning that will move us
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  • Denial meets reality: Victoria enters a state of climate disaster
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  • CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
  • FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery
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