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Category: Australian matters

#StopAdani from above: Seeing is conserving

15 November 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters

Aerial landscape photographers and traditional land owners join forces to #StopAdani As new coal mines are opened up in Queensland, a collaboration of one of the best landscape photographers in this part of the world with a traditional land owner is using their gifts and abilities for conservation of the

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Renewables now cheapest of all – and at times even utterly free

4 November 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, World affairs

We are in a dead-serious race against time when it comes to stopping our pollution of the atmosphere. Equally important is to share and spread the knowledge about how fast things are actually progressing in the right direction towards a new, sustainable energy era. Below are some recent examples. The

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Climate resilience DIY: The sustainable kit house

1 November 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 1 November 2017 is Camilla Novotna, CEO and founder of Ecokit which sells a new concept of small DIY eco houses. Leigh Ewbank from Friends of the Earth Melbourne’s Act on Climate campaign gives us a report from the Melbourne Day of Climate

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Geelong joins the #StopAdani ShakeUp

1 November 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Newsletter No 13 from #StopAdani Geelong: Community Meeting 6 November @6.30pm GENERATIONS AGAINST ADANI ACTION 21 NOVEMBER 11AM What:  Peaceful protest out the front of Richard Marles’ office Who:  Anyone who wants to take a stand to Stop Adani from the young to the young at heart When:  21 November

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How to love your home with natural light and trikes

18 October 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 18 October 2017 is Geelong Gallery’s deputy-director Penny Whitehead. On the phone we talk with Councillor Cathy Oke, chair of the City of Melbourne Environmental Portfolio. At the Humans in Geelong Expo, Tony meets two 20-year-old cycling Danes, Marcus Frellsen and Kenneth McDonald Kelly,

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Geelong says #StopAdani

8 October 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

What a turnout down Eastern Beach for our StopAdani Geelong human sign! Over 200 people showed up to help us form a human sign, above and beyond all expectations. Protests all over Australia showed similar levels of engagement and popular rage over the Adani project. The Australian people as a

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Amazing locals making a difference as temperatures rise

23 September 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in the Sustainable Studio on 20 September 2017 are: Monica Winston, Transition Streets Geelong, Leigh Ewbank from Act on Climate, and Jacqui Bennett from Humans in Geelong. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 187 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To open or download this programme in mp3-format, right-click here

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When zero waste makes business better

17 September 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in the Sustainable Studio on 13 September 2017 are Barbara Ferrante, owner of Salon Eve in Geelong, and Krystina Birch, Sustainable Salons Australia’s Victorian representative. We visit Gayle English and Phil Slocombe at It’s Only Natural, an eco-friendly dry cleaning shop in Yarraville. And over the phone we talk with

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Becoming indigenous to place

7 September 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 6 September 2017 is Mark Dekker, who is an urban planner, organic farmer, youth outreach worker and Transition Street mobiliser. We also play a short excerpt from a speech held by the Victorian Minister for Local Government, Natalie Hutchins as Geelong’s ‘Clever and

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We call on ABC and SBS to break the silence on the climate emergency

1 September 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Petition 4 comments

This page was published on 31 October 2016. It was updated on 1 September 2017 by which date it had been viewed 123 times. By September 2019, it exceeded 3,500 views When will the ABC and SBS begin to live up to their own charters – their responsibility as public

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Recent Posts

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  • Democracy, diesel and the true cost of fossil fuels
  • The body count of fossil fuels
  • Democracy is failing the climate
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  • From persuasion to connection – a theory of change for the climate reset
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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