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Category: World affairs

And the winners are… Accurate Information and Optimism

6 March 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

Tim Adams, principal of F2 Design and a member of the Geelong Sustainability committee, is our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 2 March 2016. He is full of good ideas and has got some 10-Star rated news to share with us – from the stock

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Global agreement to guide action on climate change

13 December 2015 Mik Aidt World affairs One comment

The UN climate conference ended with a global agreement. That’s the good news from Paris. But will this agreement do the trick and save humanity from the catastrophic global warming which climate scientists have warned that we are heading towards? Is it time to open the champagne bottles and celebrate?

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What to take away from the UN Climate Talks in Paris

1 December 2015 Mik Aidt World affairs

The one-sentence, moral solution to climate change “We call on all world leaders at COP 21 to embrace Pope Francis’ pleas, to adopt just, honest and transparent accounting practices and, after hundreds of years of giving companies and governments a free ride, to finally and simply require that those who

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“Don’t look at the branches, look at the root. We are the root”

9 November 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, World affairs

In the 97th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we talk about the People’s Climate March, Climate Action Network Australia, the Act on Climate festival in Geelong, the Waves 2 Woods festival in Anglesea, the #SmallChanges campaign, the inadequate commitments of 146 countries, now presented to the United Nations in

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Aiming for safety: Restoring the balance in our atmosphere

28 October 2015 Mik Aidt World affairs

We have known about the problem for decades: The atmosphere is not an open sewer we can continue throwing 40 billion tonnes of carbon into every year without any consequences. Ignoring the problem, we have created a climate emergency. Now what? In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on

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Winds of change with people at the centre

3 October 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, World affairs

“Tell everyone we have a plan” UN Global Goals advertisement Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 92: » To open or download this programme in mp3-format, right-click here (Mac: CTRL + click) » Subscribe to ‘The Sustainable Hour’ podcast — via iTunes or via your own podcast/RSS software G21 Stakeholder

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Aussie kids to world leaders: ‘Don’t ruin our home’

20 September 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 16 September 2015 we report from the Second Sustainability Party at Sydenham-Hillside Primary School. We have interviews with the Climate Guardian Angels from ClimActs, who are taking kids’ letters to the UN Climate Summit in Paris in December, with Beyond Zero

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Three brave Australians’ sustainability pilgrimages

18 July 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, World affairs

Today, The Sustainable Hour introduces you to three adventurous Australians who went one big step further to spread the message about the urgent need for change as far as our environmental impact and carbon footprint is concerned. Mary Beth Gundrum walked 1,005.5 kilometres over 23 days to create awareness about

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The big news about climate and our health

3 July 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

A new global health report calls climate change a ‘health emergency’, but also an opportunity. Citizens are taking legal action against their own governments’ inaction on climate change because it is going to harm the nation. And in Holland, they won the case. The 79th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The

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Praise of an ecological teaching letter to the world from the Pope

20 June 2015 Mik Aidt World affairs

  The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 18, 2015 The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. ~ Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 18, 2015  

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