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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:

Cost of the fossil con

28 September 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

The cost of the fossil con is measured in melting glaciers, deadly heatwaves, rising seas – and the corrosion of democracy itself.

Open blogpost

Geelong Connection Café to strengthen community resilience

26 September 2025 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

At our September gathering, a small group of locals in Geelong made an important decision: our long-running Climate Café will from here on be known as the Geelong Connection Café. Why the change? Because words matter. While climate is central to our concerns, the word often carries a weight of

Open blogpost

New relations: Language, love and the roots of our climate crisis

24 September 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 566 is Ramandeep Sibia from Punjabis for Climate and Warm Data Lab.

Open blogpost

Get involved with the Climate Rescue Accord

23 September 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Recommendation, World affairs

The Climate Rescue Accord is a common policy framework to set a course to restore a safe climate.

Open blogpost

Days of sun, sustainability and solutions

17 September 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 565 is Ruth Blackhirst from Geelong Sustainability, organiser of Sustainable House Day

Open blogpost

Tiny homes, huge hearts – resilience and joy in community living

10 September 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 564 are Rochelle Ryan from Australian Tiny House Association and Andy Greig from Swift Tiny Homes.

Open blogpost

The Sustainable Climate Song Contest Hour 2025

3 September 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

What happens when climate activists turn into songwriters – and then ask their audience to vote?

Open blogpost

Green transition, trust and togetherness in Denmark

28 August 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no. 562 takes us to Denmark where Mik Aidt is reporting back on what the green transition looks and feels like on the ground. 

Open blogpost

Bold steps, tiny homes and zero waste futures

20 August 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

With Cat Macleod, Friday Vigils for Climate, Phae Barrett, Geelong Tiny Home Expo, and Kirsty Bishop-Fox, Zero Waste Festival.

Open blogpost

THE CLIMATE REVOLUTION: Revolutionary politics rooted in service to life on Earth

13 August 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, Recommendation, World affairs One comment

The tenth episode of The Climate Revolution podcast series features the British sustainability strategist Joseph Gelfer.

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • 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
  • CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
  • FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery

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