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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:

Sri Lankan climate journeys and a soil guru

5 June 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in this week’s episode are Tasmanian permaculturist Neysan Pertl from The Soil Guru, and climate activists Kanchana and Pasini from Sri Lanka.

Open blogpost

Fortifying people not profit

29 May 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 505 is an anonymous agroecology activist from India. We also hear two activists speaking at oil companies’ AGMs.

Open blogpost

Considerately choosing that we can do better

22 May 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 504 are Tim Schmidt, president of the Australian Hemp Council, and sustainable fashion designer Simi Diskin.

Open blogpost

The elephant in the room of climate activism: politics

17 May 2024 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Report from a community meeting about climate and politics held at the Geelong West Town Hall on 9 May 2024

Open blogpost

Gassed promises and intentional lives

14 May 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 503 is Joppe from Sweden who lives in Solbyn, an Intentional Village. We also listen to speeches by Julie Saylor-Briggs and Wayne Jury.

Open blogpost

Sue Barrett: “Our Independent’s Day is coming”

12 May 2024 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

Sue Barrett spoke at Geelong West Townhall on 9 May 2024. She has successfully led Voices of Goldstein, March4Justice, Zoe Daniel’s 2022 campaign and Goldstein for Yes campaign using her professional knowledge, skills and experience. → See also: www.communityindependentsproject.org Transcript Sue Barrett: I don’t know where you were at Christmas

Open blogpost

System change, revolution and green grandmas

8 May 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests on The Sustainable Hour number 502 are green grandma and author Linda Mary Wagner and sociologist Terry Leahy.

Open blogpost

Exploring Australia’s political revolution on Geelong’s community radio

6 May 2024 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

In this radio interview Mik Aidt discusses the need for independent representation in politics, specifically in relation to climate action

Open blogpost

Mental health repercussions of climate inaction

1 May 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

Members of the community are encouraged to send a letter about mental health and climate to their local respresentatives in Parliament

Open blogpost

Learning hub for regeneration

1 May 2024 Mik Aidt Recommendation

The Regen Learning Hub is a free education resource for anyone who wants to learn about nature-based and regenerative solutions to heal our future.

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • 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
  • 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
  • In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
  • The bats and humans who belong – in Geelong
  • FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment
  • Treaty and protestival – listening for change
  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “Fuck hope. What’s the strategy?”
  • The Climate Safety Plan – ensuring no one is left behind
  • Trash talkers and trauma – how small actions combat climate anxiety
  • Fighting Australia’s carbon bomb – choosing courage over cowardice

Most read today

  • EARTH DAY 2026 – voices from ocean to earthmark
    EARTH DAY 2026 – voices from ocean to earthmark
  • From persuasion to connection – a theory of change for the climate reset
    From persuasion to connection – a theory of change for the climate reset
  • THE CLIMATE REVOLUTION: Revolutionary politics rooted in service to life on Earth
    THE CLIMATE REVOLUTION: Revolutionary politics rooted in service to life on Earth
  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “Fuck hope. What’s the strategy?”
    Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “Fuck hope. What’s the strategy?”
  • Inner work as catalyst for outer change
    Inner work as catalyst for outer change
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