Overall strategy input / brainstorm by Mik Aidt for the workshop “How society can resore safe climate” on 1 July 2015 Elevator summary: We need to invent an exciting and simple ‘virus’ which makes people want to engage and which can kickstart a movement of people who are excited and
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We connect thinkers and rethinkers with doers, sharers and carers in Geelong and around the planet. BLOGPOSTS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Speaking of sustainability in schools
“Let’s make sustainability fun!”. “It’s got to be about action!” These were two of the numerous suggestions by four speakers who gave inspriring presentations at the event ‘Sustainability in schools – preparing the next generation’ in Geelong on 28 May 2014. Speakers: • Thea Nicholas, Cool Australia • Anthony Mangelsdorf,
Audio highlights from the Renew Geelong Picnic 2014
On 27 April 2014, 94.7 The Pulse broadcasted live – powered by a biogas generator – from the Renew Geelong Picnic 2014 in Geelong’s Eastern Park, where over 150 citizens gathered to celebrate Earth Day and its Green Cities theme of this year. In the 30th edition of The Sustainable Hour
Climate ignorance responsible for teenage despair
Climate change can be linked to increase in Australia’s suicide rates, a study shows. In this the 29th edition of The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we talk about what a city’s councillors could and should be doing in order to ensure that its teenagers don’t lose hope on
Take a ‘climate leave’
Have you ever considered taking a climate leave? Going on climate leave works in the same way as when going on parental leave. You take time off from work to do something good – in this case not for a newborn child, but for the planet. Something that benefits everyone.
Redefining the meaning of ‘waste’
Instead of fighting over the expansion of landfill sites, it is time to start a much more interesting conversation about how we create a world without landfills. In The Sustainable Hour on 4 June 2014 on 94.7 The Pulse we talked about how we can build our own houses from
Call for a mature discussion about climate change and vested interests
While Lismore City Council aims to go 100 per cent renewables in just ten years, the City of Greater Geelong Council has recently approved a draft budget with sustainability initiatives receiving little or no funding. “We need to have a mature discussion about what is happening to our environment,” wrote
How we dance with that elephant in the room
This was the week where the word ‘unstoppable’ melting of ice was introduced and sunk in – the fact that the ice at West Antarctica is melting faster than anyone had realised – and it is already around 20 years too late to do anything about this. Scientists at the
Climate crunch time on Budget Day
In Geelong, the annual budget was adopted as a draft at a city council meeting on 13 April 2014. The new budget means cuts to the council’s sustainability initiative, Future Proofing Geelong. The federal government released the budget for the nation as a whole on the same day. The national
Green sustainability is the ultimate blue
“Sustainability is actually an extreme right wing philosophy,” explains our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 7 May 2014: Tim Adams. Tim Adams is the principal of F2 Design. He is also the Immediate Past President of the Building Designers’ Association of Victoria, the creator of the BDAV’s ‘10 Star