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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:

RUN FOR COUNTRY – ice cream in a fight against fracking

25 March 2026 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 25 March 2026 is Hilary McAllister, one of ice-cream company Ben & Jerry’s campaign organisers.

Open blogpost

FESTIVALS OF CHANGE – from climate worry to community action 

18 March 2026 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests are Jacqui Dunn and Lauren Ball from the One Planet Festival, and Tonie Field from the Degrowth Festival.

Open blogpost

TAKE ACTION FOR EARTH – defending the swift parrot

11 March 2026 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 581 is Jenny Weber, campaigns director at the Bob Brown Foundation.

Open blogpost

BE DIFFICULT – balancing the scales for climate justice

5 March 2026 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in our International Women’s Day special is climate lecturer Lucy Richardson. Hosted by Lauren Dillon and Jodie Hill.

Open blogpost

When the emergency becomes our new reality

18 February 2026 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 579 is Nicole Shortis, Controller of VICSES Bellarine.

Open blogpost

FORCE OF LIFE: Inner work as catalyst for outer change

16 February 2026 Mik Aidt Australian matters

The fourth episode of the Force of Life series features social innovator and systems thinker Andrew Gaines

Open blogpost

Being a little batty – about responsibility and belonging

11 February 2026 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no. 578 focuses on the opening of the art exhibition ‘Bats & Belonging’ in Geelong.

Open blogpost

Be ready for the climate reset

4 February 2026 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in the first Sustainable Hour in 2026 is Luke Taylor, the National Sustainability Festival’s director.

Open blogpost

Staying cool, staying safe: what electrifying our homes really means

1 February 2026 Mik Aidt Educational

Maurie Britt, director of The Heat Shop, about why the shift away from gas and towards electrification is accelerating.

Open blogpost

Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being

31 January 2026 Guest writer Local Geelong matters One comment

Interview with Mik Aidt about his 23-minute audio artwork ‘Bats and Being’,

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • Walking in two worlds
  • Tinyer homes – bigger possibilities
  • Lives we overlook
  • The climate crisis needs a new story of manhood
  • GENTLE AS A MAN – when power learns to serve life
  • KEEP TURNING UP – as the climate bill arrives
  • CATCH THE BALL: The 600th episode of hard truths
  • COUNTRY REMEMBERS what greed forgets
  • BLUE ECONOMY: The sea is the limit
  • Ancient wisdom for a nation still growing up
  • Learning to share the atmosphere
  • FROM THE GROUND UP: The connecting link between medicine and farming
  • Treaty to take us beyond fossil fuels
  • Justice on Country
  • CONNECTION CAFÉ – finding joy in practical action
  • FOOTY FOREVER – climate action meets Australia’s game
  • 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

Most read today

  • What we all can do
    What we all can do
  • Tinyer homes – bigger possibilities
    Tinyer homes – bigger possibilities
  • Cartoons about climate
    Cartoons about climate
  • Adelaide art prize and exhibition to promote climate awareness
    Adelaide art prize and exhibition to promote climate awareness
  • A letter to our overseas friends
    A letter to our overseas friends
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