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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:

Budget: The climate emergency response is in the detail

23 May 2021 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

Does the Geelong Council’s proposed budget reflect that the Council has acknowledged that we are in a climate emergency?
We took a benchmarking-look at what Queenscliffe and Surf Coast currently are doing in comparison.

Open blogpost

Geelong community rejects dangerous fossil fuel project

20 May 2021 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

Summary from the sold-out Geelong Energy Futures Forum

Open blogpost

Extraordinary climate action from two directions

19 May 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

With Anthea Falkiner, 49, and Mary Christie, 19, both Extinction Rebellion activists, and Dr Adrian Panow who is Director of Energy at Deakin University

Open blogpost

Hope comes from real actions

12 May 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

With Deb Punton from Greensong Ecopsychology, 14-year-old climate activist Aruba Faruque from Bangladesh and Janine Duffy from Koala Clancy Foundation.

Open blogpost

Citizens’ vision: Let us walk together

3 May 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Kitty Walker, Tuesday Browell and Carol Carney are guests in The Sustainable Hour no 361 – three community mobilisers getting good results by getting the people behind them.

Open blogpost

Politics and activism on and off line

28 April 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 360 on 28 April 2021 are Adrian Whitehead from the Climate Emergency Action Alliance, and Glenn Todd and Hayley Sestokis, founders of Action Skills.

Open blogpost

Time to strike

24 April 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

On Friday 21 May 2021, School Strike 4 Climate will be taking to the streets again, calling out the government’s plans to back gas instead of their future.

Open blogpost

Earth Day on the cusp

21 April 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Hour no 359 is professor Yin Paradies, who teaches race relations and indigenous studies at Deakin University.

Open blogpost

THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Wine, vets and climate disruption

17 April 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters

THE REGENERATIVE HOUR no 28: With Kate McIntyre, Moorooduc Estate, Dr Gundi Rhoades, Veterinarians for Climate Action, and Tony Marsh, Winooka Park vineyard.

Open blogpost

Renewables not gas make a country lucky

14 April 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 358 are the Victorian Trades Hall just transition officer Colin Long and Smart Energy Council board member Simon Holmes à Court.

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • 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
  • 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

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  • Songs for the climate revolution of 2025
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  • Cross pollination between youth, extinction rebels and grey-haired councillors
    Cross pollination between youth, extinction rebels and grey-haired councillors
  • Together: How music can heal country and climate
    Together: How music can heal country and climate
  • From collapse to coherence: In preparation for what is coming
    From collapse to coherence: In preparation for what is coming
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