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Category: World affairs

The things that give us new energy

6 July 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, World affairs

Some big, scary news about the climate emergency is coming at us on a daily basis – but there is tonnes of good news to take notice of as well. Such as when the news ticked in from Montgomery County Council in Maryland, USA, that it has declared a climate

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You know the transformation has started when…

31 March 2018 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

You know that humanity is making positive steps to change our behaviour – and that the business community is beginning to speed up its transition away from polluting fossil fuels and plastic to clean, green energy in a recyclable and circular economy – when you hear and read statements from multinational

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Reversing climate change: The middle gets it

16 February 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

“The middle gets it. The middle is happening.” ~ Paul Hawken, American author In The Sustainable Hour on 14 February 2018: • Architect Alvyn Williams from Soft Loud House Architects about passive houses and star rating systems • Councillors Susan Rennie and Trent McCarthy about the world’s first municipal climate

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Welcome to the new grand story of interconnected sustainability

28 December 2017 Mik Aidt Educational, Recommendation, World affairs

“As if it wasn’t already clear, 2017 provided even more evidence that we are changing our planet in dangerous ways.” ~ Heather Leibowitz, environmental advocate and lawyer “In 20 years we’ll look back on 2017 as a turning point for the climate challenge.” ~ Simon Holmes à Court, senior adviser

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Ferocious fires wake up one Australian news station

9 December 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, World affairs

Something rare just occurred: an Australian tv news journalist made a connection between extreme weather events and climate change! Sadly and strangely, this is actually such an extremely rare event in public media in Australia that it calls for an exclamation point and a special mention – in particular in

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In the midst of it all, in the door steps The Sensible Citizen

15 November 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

Inaction on the climate emergency only makes sense in a shortsighted perspective. Enter The Sensible Citizen who has the capacity to think long term and to think independently, able to see straight through all the media ‘white noise’ – the fake news, disinformation and outright nonsense which we are bombarded with

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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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Change is in the air – and we don’t mean climate change

13 October 2017 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational, World affairs

October 2017 climatic clippings – part 1 Today, in 2017, we see it on the news almost every day. We are victims of climate change. Climate change causes what the silly journalists of our mainstream media keep calling ‘natural’ disasters, even though more or less everyone knows that these disruptions

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Spell of climate inaction: lift it with knowledge

28 August 2017 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

“Action is the antidote to despair.” Edward Abbey, American author (1927–1989) Climate Catch 22: The antidote to climate despair is action. Everyone we have talked with in our radio show The Sustainable Hour agrees with this. But we don’t act as long as we are in doubt. Therefore, the removal

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Power to the truth

10 August 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, World affairs

In The Sustainable Hour on 9 August 2017, as Al Gore‘s documentary ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ premiers in cinemas, Dr Michelle Maloney tells us about The New Economy and the conference about this topic in Brisbane in September, we listen to clear talk about economy, coal mining and

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