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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:

Climate revolution from the ground up

14 September 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 429 is Bev Middleton, founder of Soil Week Australia, to highlight the importance of healthy soils.

Open blogpost

Wellbeing as in love, laughter and zero waste

7 September 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 428 are Kirsty Bishop-Fox, founder of Zero Waste Festival, and Laura Grufas, national community organiser in Australian Parents for Climate Action

Open blogpost

The devil works hard so we have to work just as hard

31 August 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 427 are climate activist and sociologist Jenn Sinclair, psycho-therapist Andrew Gaines and writer, musician and activist Morgan Heenan.

Open blogpost

#JustStopOil: If they will not stop new oil and gas projects, we will

25 August 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

“Now is the time to resist the biggest act of criminality in human history,” say British JustStopOil campaigners as they sabotage petrol stations and block a tunnel under an oil terminal.

Open blogpost

Surfers: End all search and new drilling for fossil fuels

24 August 2022 Guest writer Australian matters, Commentary, Petition

Surfers across Australia are opposing a proposed seismic survey for oil and gas in the Bass Strait, covering an area of pristine ocean larger than Tasmania, because of the danger to marine life.

Open blogpost

Faith groups: No more fossil fuels

24 August 2022 Guest writer Recommendation

“We need to stop all new coal and gas projects and put an end to public subsidies for those industries.” Multi faith protest actions on 13 October 2022.

Open blogpost

Reuse, reduce, DANCE, recycle, repeat

24 August 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters 3 comments

In The Sustainable Hour no. 426, we welcome Mik Aidt back from his two weeks in Denmark. The tables are turned on him as he becomes our guest.

Open blogpost

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.

Open blogpost

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.

Open blogpost

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

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • 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
  • In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
  • The bats and humans who belong – in Geelong

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