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Category: Petition

Electricity rules not keeping pace with technology

11 December 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Petition, Recommendation

“Fix the voltage to 230, reduce emissions with 3 million tonnes of CO2 per year and save money,” suggests electrical engineer Ty Christopher, Strategic Adviser at Ecojoule, in this podcast interview.

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THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Isolating for nature

17 May 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Petition, Recommendation

“I will not stand idly by while the very trees that are integral to our survival are ripped out of the earth and increasing our fire risk,” says Nic Fox, Isolating for Nature

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Recordings from the Climate Emergency Summit 2020

1 March 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Petition, Recommendation, World affairs

The first Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne was live-streamed on YouTube, and these recordings are now made available in shorter segments, together with an additional set of audio recordings of the break-out sessions.

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Surf Coast Shire Council has declared a climate emergency

29 August 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, Petition, Recommendation

In this video, Surf Coast community campaigner Alex Marshall explains why she is excited about her Council’s decision – and what she believes it will mean for children, youth and adult residents in the coastal municipality. Geelong Councillors ask: “What do you think Geelong?” Geelong Councillor Anthony Aitken wrote on

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Petition: Call on Geelong Council to declare

31 May 2019 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Petition

We used to say, “to declare a climate emergency.” Now it has become such a common thing to do that people just say “to declare” and expect everyone to know what they mean. → You can add your name to the petition here:www.geelong.climateemergencydeclaration.org/petition – – – – – – –

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Australian parents angry about climate threat

4 February 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Petition, Recommendation

Australian Parents for Climate Action demand immediate emergency-scale action from all levels of government and from business to safeguard the future for our children by cutting atmospheric greenhouse emissions to safe levels…

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United Kingdom: Civil disobedience call for emergency plan of action

13 November 2018 Mik Aidt Petition, World affairs

Extinction Rebellion is a non-violent civil disobedience movement – an “alliance of the willing” – in the UK which demands of its government that it declares a climate emergency, communicates the crisis to the public and goes zero carbon already by 2025. The community organising under the name Extinction Rebellion took off

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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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It’s time to decide our future

9 February 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, Petition

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 1 February 2017 are Simone Boer, leader of City of Greater Geelong’s Our Future project, and Steve Posselt, kayak adventurer. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 154 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To open or download this programme in mp3-format, right-click here (Mac:

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Finding foothold as a wave of climatic counter-logic hits our parliaments

24 January 2017 Mik Aidt Commentary, Petition

Some January 2017 notes with links and contemplations as we enter a new year and are confronted with governments’ increasingly absurd lack of response to the dangerous climate change disruption – the Great Turning, collapse, catastrophe, apocalypse or whatever you want to call it – which temperature graphs and science reports

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