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Speaking of drawdown (1): What role might I play?

5 March 2020 Mik Aidt Educational, Recommendation

How we can affect our climate change future? At Geelong Sustainability’s Clever Living Seminar on 3 March 2020 at the Geelong Library, David Spear, CEO of Greenlight, and Gene Blackley, director of Drawdown Australia presented their answers to that question.

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Recordings from the Climate Emergency Summit 2020

1 March 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Petition, Recommendation, World affairs

The first Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne was live-streamed on YouTube, and these recordings are now made available in shorter segments, together with an additional set of audio recordings of the break-out sessions.

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Has Geelong Council lost its spine?

26 February 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters 9 comments

Is it possible to recognise climate change as a global emergency and order a newly built bikelane demolished at one and the same council meeting? Well. Geelong Council managed to do just that on 25 february 2020.

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Colin Mockett’s global outlook

20 February 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational, World affairs

The world is changing fast. If we don’t keep track of the changes, we lose out on the opportunities we have right in front of our nose to transform, transition, change and improve our city, our homes and our lives.

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First community-owned renewable energy plant in Geelong

19 July 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

The launch event of a 520 solar system at MACS – Multicultural Aged Care Services in West Geelong – in July 2018 marked the completion of a four-year dream to create a large-scale solar project in Geelong. Listen to an excerpt

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The Great Debate 2018 – and the little coral that could

8 March 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

Audio recordings of the presentations at the feature festival event ‘The Great Debate’ at the Big Weekend of the National Sustainable Living Festival 2018 on 9 February 2018. Photos by Julian Meehan The event set out to explore the vital

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Drawdown for a safe climate

22 February 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

To return to safe levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere – the famous 350 parts per million – we have got to figure out how we can rapidly drawdown huge amounts of carbon. The trouble is that we now

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Councils respond to the climate emergency

20 February 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

It was a world first when Darebin City Council adopted a community-wide climate emergency plan. Now, some of Australia’s other 536 councils are getting ready to act, and in the United States, the emergency campaign has already been taken up

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Summer reflections: Rescope podcasts on 94.7 The Pulse

27 December 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters

The Perth-based Rescope Project has an exciting mission and goals about “empowering people to regenerate the systems and stories we live by” and has produced some great interviews “getting to the heart of sustainability” that we believe Geelong should hear.

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Launch of Geelong’s new 30-year vision

4 September 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters 2 comments

On 30 August 2017, ministers and members of the Victorian parliament gathered together with the Geelong administrators at the city hall for the launch of the ‘Clever and Creative Future’ vision for Geelong. Finally, after 18 months of work and

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