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Category: Australian matters

Biggest ever global #ClimateStrike announced

6 June 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, Recommendation, World affairs

To everyone who cares about climate safety and climate justice for all of us, this is your invitation to join the Global #ClimateStrike on 20 September 2019 – millions of people around the world standing up to confront the climate crisis when our politicians won’t. → Join or host a

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Climate emergency, hypocracy and a green wedge

5 June 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainble Hour on 5 June 2019 is Noel Emselle who invites all community members to a public forum, the Southern Bellarine Coastal Forum, on future development in the “green wedge” between Point Lonsdale and Ocean Grove on the 21 June 2019. The interview with him starts at

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Caroline Danaher’s direct action quest for the climate

30 May 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

A 75-year-old Australian pensioner got inspired by a 15-year Swedish teenager, and hear what happened next… 30-minute radio documentary by The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse about Caroline Danaher’s direct action quest in Geelong, Australia. This is the story about what happened when Caroline Danaher took inspiration from the

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Soil, rivers and drones of the Climate Spring

29 May 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 29 May 2019 are: Lorna Martin – Permaculture Geelong co-founderLachlan Gordon – Friends of the Barwon, andCameron Steele – People for A Living Moorabool We also play a clip from a press meeting in Heathrow Airport, where four members of Extinction Rebellion announced

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Tremors from the Australian youthquake

22 May 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in the The Sustainable Hour’s climatesafety-bunker on 22 April 2019 are 17-year-old school striker Oscar Pearce, student and school captain at Albert Park College, and our treasured ‘people-reporter’ Lene Foghsgaard who stops by the headquarters to greet our listeners with a proper ‘See you!’ before she heads off to

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Cooperate as never before to radically reorganise

19 May 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary One comment

Thoughts, reflections and observations on Saturday’s – from a climate activists’ perspective shocking and sad – election result in Australia, where once again a hollow promise of “a strong economy” and the right to pollute our common atmosphere and destroy our kids’ future won over the promise of climate action

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Louder. The call for an Australian climate emergency declaration has never been louder

16 May 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

“We will take this emergency seriously,” said opposition leader Bill Shorten just two days before the federal election and on the same day the ACT Government declared a climate emergency.

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Direct action, disobedience and an emergency restart button

15 May 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 15 May 2019 are from the Australian climate action community

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In defense of our planet: Give your vote to the kids

8 May 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

London calling: In The Sustainable Hour on 8 May 2019, we cancel some of our planned interview appointments in order to make room for reporting about something historic: the breakthrough for the climate emergency declaration and mobilisation which has been pushed forward by the school strikers and the Extinction Rebellion

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#ClimateStrikers’ call to politicians: Show us you mean it

1 May 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Climate change is here, the Australian election is here, and the third national student climate strike is here. We have two youth strikers in the studio, Caitlin Ramsay and Hilary Cao, who say they are ready to act like their lives and their futures depend on it. We open the

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