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Tag: action

Replacing Big Energy with community solar

15 May 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

The Geelong Community Solar Rebellion Why I am interested in this community solar program Interviews with Jen Fuller, Sheryl Biddle and Lindsey Fuller recorded after Alex Georgiou’s presentation at Geelong Library on 14 May 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Reframing evolution and the climate that changes

18 March 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

A visual ecologist, a thoughtful vegan and a Climate for Change facilitator. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 208 on 94.7 The Pulse on 21 March 2018: » To open or download this programme in mp3-format, right-click here (Mac: CTRL + click)   » Subscribe to ‘The Sustainable Hour’ podcast

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Care is in the air

8 March 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

…and on air, not just in The Sustainable Hour, but finally now also in national news programs and documentaries on the channels of our public broadcasters. In The Sustainable Hour on 7 March 2018, we talk climate care with ACT’s Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment, professor Kate Auty, and

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Reversing climate change: The middle gets it

16 February 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

“The middle gets it. The middle is happening.” ~ Paul Hawken, American author In The Sustainable Hour on 14 February 2018: • Architect Alvyn Williams from Soft Loud House Architects about passive houses and star rating systems • Councillors Susan Rennie and Trent McCarthy about the world’s first municipal climate

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Climate fighters putting bubbles and bodies on the line

7 December 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The blockade of Adani’s construction works in Queensland is becoming Australia’s next frontline in the fight against the climate crisis caused by an industry that wants us to keep burning their fossil fuels. In the morning on 6 December 2017, a group of #StopAdani campaigners locked on to a gate

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Climate resilience DIY: The sustainable kit house

1 November 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 1 November 2017 is Camilla Novotna, CEO and founder of Ecokit which sells a new concept of small DIY eco houses. Leigh Ewbank from Friends of the Earth Melbourne’s Act on Climate campaign gives us a report from the Melbourne Day of Climate

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Call for your ideas: Action plan to reach zero carbon

14 September 2017 Mik Aidt Recommendation

What should the Geelong community’s ‘Zero Carbon Action Plan’ look like? Have your say! Also, write a letter to the editor of the Geelong Advertiser, and get involved on ‘Zero Emissions Day’, 21 September 2017 – the global 24-hour moratorium on the use of fossil fuels. Lots to do! More

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Community in the offing to stop Adani

14 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Stephen Higgs, former principal of Ballarat Grammar, explains why he and the newly formed community alliance #StopAdani Geelong has set a goal to stop the construction of Adani’s $16 billion dollar coal mine in Queensland. But this is not just another protest movement, this is active citizenship driven by passion

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Geelong now has a Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy

1 May 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

The new strategy provides a target for the City of Greater Geelong council: in three years, by 2020, council must halve carbon emissions from its buildings and vehicle fleet. With the release of its new Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy for the period 2017–20, the City of Greater Geelong council wants

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To care or not to care. That’s the question

28 April 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 26 April 2017 are: Dorthe Pedersen, co-founder of Cycling Without Age, Tim Buckley, industry analyst from Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, Guy Abrahams, CEO of Climarte and director of the festival ‘Arts+Climate=Change’, and Graeme Stockton, co-organiser of

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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
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  • The Sustainable Climate Song Contest Hour 2025
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  • Legal revolution for the planet – and a call from the butt hunters
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  • 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
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  • Because local matters
  • State of the climate in 2025: telling it as it is
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  • 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?

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