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Centre for Climate Safety

Sharing solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable

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The Sustainable Hour: Over 600 hours of engaging podcasts - for a clean, green and sustainable world

We connect thinkers and rethinkers with doers, sharers and carers in Geelong and around the planet. BLOGPOSTS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:

You, me & democracy: a vote for bullying or for kindness

30 April 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no 546 are Sue Barrett and Peter Vadiveloo – standing strong against rising political intimidation and misinformation.

Open blogpost

The climate crisis is an inequality crisis

27 April 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

The staggering accumulation of wealth and power by a privileged few is driving both social and ecological breakdown. It is in everybody’s interest to solve this problem.

Open blogpost

How to vote card Corangamite and Corio – 2025 federal election climate guide

26 April 2025 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters 2 comments

Voting with climate in mind? Here’s how to put climate first in the 2025 federal election.

Open blogpost

Play your part and vote the difference

23 April 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 545 are Eddie Kowalski from Online Citizens’ Assembly, and John De Lorenzo, independent candidate for Corio.

Open blogpost

Community Independent calls out ‘bike path stunt’ in Corangamite campaign

22 April 2025 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Community Independent candidate urges voters not to be misled by “classic pre-election media stunt.”

Open blogpost

Turn your fence into a climate action message board

18 April 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

What if your front fence could speak up for the future? With a simple, weatherproof poster, it can.

Open blogpost

Clean up in the morass of clean energy misinformation

16 April 2025 Mik Aidt Educational

Solar and wind are now the cheapest sources of new electricity, and the fastest growing in history.

Open blogpost

Earth Day reflections from the heart

16 April 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Broadcast from Geelong’s Eastern Park, Margie Abbott and Peter Martin offer powerful reflections on our connection with nature and planet Earth.

Open blogpost

Democracy reimagined: rebuilding trust

16 April 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

Can trust in politics be rebuilt? A new online citizens’ assembly model offers a real pathway forward.

Open blogpost

Unlocking the green transition in Australia

15 April 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Recommendation 7 comments

Proposal to adopt the Danes’ term ’Den Grønne Omstilling’ as a unifying phrase for addressing the climate crisis.

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • The world doesn’t have to be this way
  • Democracy, diesel and the true cost of fossil fuels
  • 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
  • CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
  • FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery

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  • A voice to Australia’s silent climate majority
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    Democracy, diesel and the true cost of fossil fuels
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