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Tag: awareness

#FindYourRole: The peaceful perseverers

2 November 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

#FindYourRole: The peaceful perseverers | Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 436 are Caroline Danaher and Maree Maria from Fridays for Future Geelong, Kay Wennagel who is facilitating an electric vehicle bulk buy, and peace activist Nick Deane.

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Refinery’s social license up for public discussion

27 April 2017 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters One comment

An utterly offensive disgrace of last century’s technology that lost its social license to pollute long ago…? …or a company the city can be proud of? Viva Energy obviously thought it was worth thousands of dollars to see if they

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Harnessing the power of the arts for change

21 April 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

“What arts can do is create a climate where action becomes necessary,” says festival director Guy Abrahams of the ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE festival which opened in Victoria, Australia, on 19 April 2017. In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, he explained

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Builders of sustainability and frugal hedonism

22 October 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 19 October 2016 we meet Dave Martin, a sustainable builder who started Small Giants and a concept of ‘sustainable apprenticeship’, we talk with Annie Raser-Rowland about her new book, ‘The Art

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Treating the planet as if it was the only one we’ve got

5 September 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

An hour’s podcast about Enviroweek and youth environmental action, plastic bag free towns, the eight million tonnes of plastic which are entering our oceans every year, and how we transition away from both single use plastic bags and fossil fuels.

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Be the change of consciousness

6 August 2015 Mik Aidt Educational

Rewriting ‘The Australian Dream’ with a change of consciousness. Today we explore whether that journey to a more sustainable world which many of us would like to see our governments set out on, really must begin somewhere else: somewhere inside

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The climate fight in a nutshell

3 May 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

…or rather, in the shell of a caravan. In a caravan camouflaged as an island, that is. A Maldivian island, threatened by rising sea water levels. Currently placed on Federation Square, the pumping heart of Melbourne. By a Dane. Confused?

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Audio highlights from the Renew Geelong Picnic 2014

19 June 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

On 27 April 2014, 94.7 The Pulse broadcasted live – powered by a biogas generator – from the Renew Geelong Picnic 2014 in Geelong’s Eastern Park, where over 150 citizens gathered to celebrate Earth Day and its Green Cities theme of

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Environmental awareness – building a map

23 February 2013 Mik Aidt Recommendation

Here is how you can contribute to build up a global map of environmental awareness. If we want to improve environmental awareness, it is important to understand the current situation: what is the level of environmental awareness in different countries

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  • Introducing: The Sustainable Civilisation
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  • Unprecedented territory
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  • Talk with those who come after us
  • Gardening the reef and behaviour change
  • We are playing with fire
  • Igniting action for climate and native grasses
  • Climate activist joins Geelong Council
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  • Care, connect, collaborate and contribute
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