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Tag: Australia

Movement for a frack free Geelong region

26 September 2013 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

On 24 September 2013, 45 concerned citizens – a good mix of farmers, fishermen, tradesmen, civil servants, teachers, doctors, activists, students, and parents – met at Geelong Trades Hall to discuss how they feel about that the company Lakes Oil is

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Report from a Carbon Front Line: Australia

1 September 2013 Mik Aidt Australian matters

In Australia, one of the world’s first political parties based on a climate agenda has been founded and is heading for elections there with a bit of a mission on their shoulders. They promise their voters to save the planet.

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Hunger strike against giant coal project

30 August 2013 Mik Aidt World affairs

The level of commitment in pledges among anti-coal activists has taken a step upwards. Signatures or letter-writing simply won’t do any more. To prevent the construction of the largest coal mining complex in the world, an activist group in Australia

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Victorian government: Full steam ahead to dig up more coal

30 August 2013 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

Kelly O’Shanassy from Environment Victoria warns against the plans of the Victorian Government to dig up 13 billion tonnes of the most emissions-intensive coal to be burnt overseas. She calls it a “state-subsidised invasion by the coal industry”. “These export

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Demand an end to double standards on energy

23 August 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters

It is time to demand an end to the Victorian government’s double standards on energy. By Mik Aidt and Anthony Gleeson Politicians tend to make it all sound very complicated. But really, it is not. Victoria is the most polluting

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Industry accused of crimes against humanity

22 August 2013 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary

“They will kill you, and your children. They think they will get away with it because they have got money. But money doesn’t isolate them from climate change and the death of the planet. These people are stupid, they are

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Speaking of sustainability: Geelong Cycling Forum

5 August 2013 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

On this page you can listen to each of the speakers as well as the public debate at the Geelong Cycling Forum which was held at Beav’s Bar in Geelong in southern Australia on 15 June 2013. • Introduction by

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Climate campaign leaders: you must talk together now

13 June 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary

This is a call to all climate campaign leaders: you guys need to talk together. Make a climate campaign alliance or just a simple internal network of some sort. Open up a communication channel between yourselves. Or at least figure

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The real value of cycling

24 April 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs One comment

Cycling is not only good for your health, it is also profitable for society. A new study from Denmark shows that sick leave drops by one day per 1,200 kilometres travelled on the cycle track, and what is spent on

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Crowdfunding to cancel fossil fuel subsidies

22 March 2013 Mik Aidt World affairs

This blog-post touches upon three absurdities of our time, and a new tool to work around them: crowdfunding. The three absurdities of March 2013 are: • Governments donate 1.9 trillion dollars annually as public subsidies to the fossil fuel industry,

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