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Category: Australian matters

Criminally continuing to pollute and destroy

24 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests and speakers in The Sustainable Hour on 21 September 2016 are senator Janet Rice, marine ecologist Alastair Hirst, anti-fracking campaigner Naomi Hogan, and Dr Alex Teytelboym from Oxford University. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 140 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To open or download this programme in

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Uncommon signs of leadership and common sense

15 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters One comment

As it looks from our studio window at 94.7 The Pulse, this Sustainable Hour marks the beginning of a new era in Victoria where a fourth of all Australians from now on stand united with one common goal: a sustainable future. An era where our leaders and lawmakers stand up

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Significant turn on Victoria’s path towards clean energy and climate safety

10 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Petition

A rare phenomena in politics: Premier Daniel Andrews pays respect to the future generations, not just with a kiss for the photographer, but with a long-term plan for how Victoria will become a carbon-free society during the next three decades. » Share photo on Facebook Two announcements from the Victorian

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City looks its future in the eye – on Threatened Species Day

8 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Simone Boer and Tim Hellsten from City of Greater Geelong explain about the exciting ‘Our Future’ project which the city council launched on 1 September 2016 with an aim to create a conversation with at least 25,000 of the city’s residents. Future Super CEO Simon Sheikh grabs our radio relay

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Let’s meet and greet our local climate sceptics with confidence – and a smile

29 August 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Educational, Local Geelong matters 3 comments

You can’t judge climate sceptics as if they are all the same. They come in various sizes and shapes, with different motivations, and we need to be able to distinguish sceptics from deniers, trolls from laggards. We have seen their messages of doubt spread and grow just like a virus.

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Students and scientists sounding the climate trumpet

26 August 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in the studio: Daniel ‘Sully’ Sullivan, Sarah Hathway and Lois Newman. Prerecorded interview: Tim Flannery, author. More info below. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 136 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To open or download this programme in mp3-format, right-click here (Mac: CTRL + click) » Subscribe to ‘The

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The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse in June and July

10 August 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

Hosts: Anthony Gleeson and Alistair Cameron The Sustainable Hour #134 – 12 August 2016 • Interview with Lisa Neville, Victorian minister for water. The Sustainable Hour #133 – 5 August 2016 • Live interview via phone with Susanna Bevilacqua, Director and Founder, Moral Fairground. Moral Fairground is a Melbourne not

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Christine Milne: ‘Depoliticise the climate emergency’

21 June 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters

Radio interview with Christine Milne » Download the audio file “We are in an emergency, and I think that the more we can use that word the better. At the moment, to a lot of people, that seems like an extreme thing to say, but it is actually an acknowledgement of

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Push for solutions and steps to improve the atmosphere

20 June 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

‘The answer, my friend, is harvesting the wind…’ On World Wind Day, 15 June 2016, our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse is Mike Lawrence, who runs as independent candidate for Parliament and who co-hosted The Sustainable Hour in its first year. We talk with the National

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Climate reality and a doctor’s call

6 June 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Dr John Iser from Doctors for the Environment, who is also a Climate Reality Project coordinator, is our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 8 June 2016 for a conversation around how doctors respond to and act on the climate emergency. We also talk with Alison

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Recent Posts

  • CONNECTION CAFÉ – finding joy in practical action
  • FOOTY FOREVER – climate action meets Australia’s game
  • The world doesn’t have to be this way
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  • The body count of fossil fuels
  • Democracy is failing the climate
  • DEMOCRACY AT A CROSSROADS – can we reconnect and respond?
  • From backyard trees to community oil – the story of the Barwon Oil Barons
  • From climate emergency to festival of life
  • RESHAPE OUR WORLD – from positivity to regenerative communities
  • From persuasion to connection – a theory of change for the climate reset
  • EARTH DAY 2026 – voices from ocean to earthmark
  • 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
  • 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

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