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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 575 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.

Sri Lanka’s hiatus

17 August 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 425 is Tevin Witharana, a young freelance film maker from Sri Lanka who speaks of the positives that have emerged from being forced to slow down.

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Gas: no longer needed

10 August 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 10 August 2022 is ‘No More Gas’ campaigner Freja Leonard from Friends of The Earth Naarm/Melbourne.

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Gaslighting Geelong: accusations of betrayal

5 August 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters, Petition

Local community groups are outraged that GeelongPort has entered into a commercial agreement with Viva Energy to extend Refinery Pier for a proposed gas import terminal

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Protecting our forests, activists and community

3 August 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 3 August 2022 are Amy Calton from Wombat Action Group, Gayle Osborne from Wombat Forestcare and Kate Hardy from Australian Conservation Foundation.

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Geelong Youth Council’s top priority: soft plastic recycling

28 July 2022 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

A soft plastics project has been put forward by Youth Council as an important step in assisting Geelong Council.

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How emergency can lead to co-operation and excitement

27 July 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 422 on 27 July 2022 are Rochelle Rich and Dawn O’Neill. We also play clips from the American president and the UN General-Secretary.

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The Sustainable Hour’s presentation to the Gashub Inquiry Committee

21 July 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary

We played this video for the Viva Energy Gas Terminal Inquiry and Advisory Committee on 21 July 2022. Transcript below. → If you agree with us that this gas terminal should not be allowed to go ahead, you can add

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Reparation – and other elephants in the Zoom

20 July 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no. 421 with Adrian Whitehead and Bryony Edwards from Climate Rescue – and Dr. Elizabeth Boulton from Destination Safe Earth

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Sustained disruption against climate destruction

12 July 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 13 July 2022 is Alex, a Blockade Australia activist. We also listen to Sal Fisher’s and Lauren Dillon’s presentations to the Commission of Enquiry into Viva Energy’s gashub.

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What makes the climate movement strong

6 July 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no 419 with Dr Robyn Gulliver, director for the Commons Social Change Library, and carbon consultant Heidi Fog.

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Recent Posts

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  • Geelong Connection Café to strengthen community resilience
  • New relations: Language, love and the roots of our climate crisis
  • Get involved with the Climate Rescue Accord
  • Days of sun, sustainability and solutions
  • Tiny homes, huge hearts – resilience and joy in community living
  • The Sustainable Climate Song Contest Hour 2025
  • Green transition, trust and togetherness in Denmark
  • Bold steps, tiny homes and zero waste futures
  • THE CLIMATE REVOLUTION: Revolutionary politics rooted in service to life on Earth
  • A voice to Australia’s silent climate majority
  • Working with nature – not against it
  • Legal revolution for the planet – and a call from the butt hunters
  • World court shakes the system: corporate lawyer sees climate breakthrough
  • International court puts Australia in the hot seat
  • Wake up and fight
  • Time to wake up: How fossil fuel money captured democracy and blocked climate action
  • HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE? Healing the land with plants and water
  • Crafting climatesafe communities
  • RICHER THAN BEFORE: Building renewable economies
  • Our six pathways to a liveable and climatesafe future
  • First Nations voices rise for treaty, truth and climate healing
  • Because local matters
  • State of the climate in 2025: telling it as it is
  • Cinematic call to reconnect with nature
  • The key of empathy: climate action with kindness and courage
  • Court: If you dig it up, you own the damage
  • Open letter to Viva Energy – about gas, jobs and Geelong’s future
  • Involving citizens in the green transition is key
  • Gas expansion versus people-powered change
  • Business sector to demystify the three letters of ESG
  • Beyond the words: What happens after a climate emergency is declared?
  • Be the demand and the shift will follow
  • Climate Café – monthly gatherings in Geelong
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