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Land on fire but also flowing with honey and good ideas

18 December 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in the studio are seven-year-old Holly and her mum Jana Holmer, who share their enthusiasm for everything organic, repurposed or reinvented.

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A new model that makes the existing model obsolete

24 October 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller, American author (1895–1983) In The Sustainable Hour on 24 October 2018, we receive a

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William Vollmann: It’s too late

20 April 2018 Mik Aidt Educational

“Try to be happy and helpful…” ~ William Tanner Vollmann, author of ‘Carbon Ideologies’ “‘Carbon Ideologies’ seeks to explain to future inhabitants of Earth why we, the people of today, persisted in emitting carbon into the atmosphere in spite of

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Changing the story one low-carbon lover at a time

16 March 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

A lowcarbon-loving author, an American economist, a local expert in Geelong’s history and the Terminator help us change the story as we roll out The Sustainable Hour no. 207 on 14 March 2018 on 94.7 The Pulse. Listen here: »

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Climate change criminality and the period of consequences

27 February 2018 Andrew Glikson Educational, Recommendation

A review of the new book ‘Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival’ by Dr Peter Carter and Dr Elizabeth Woodworth Reviewed by Dr Andrew Glikson, Earth and Paleoclimate scientist, Australian National University “The era of procrastination,

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Eco-youth and eco-tourism: capturing two birds with one phone

25 October 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Our first guest in The Sustainable Hour on 25 October 2017 is the Geelong-based author and columnist Trevor Pescott who presents his new book, ‘Birds and Botanists: A field naturalist’s history of Geelong’. We play an excerpt of a speech

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The good, the bad and the utterly disgusting climatic news

16 November 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs 2 comments

In The Sustainable Hour on 16 November 2016, we look at the variety of campaign solutions which are at offer when it comes to solving the the most important challenge humankind has ever had to face, climate change. One direction

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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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Pioneers of our carbon neutral future

12 February 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

The more we spend and the richer we are, the more we pollute. The world’s richest 10 per cent produce half of all carbon emissions, according to a recent Oxfam study. A person among the richest one per cent produces

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Authors and global warming: why don’t they care?

26 February 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, Recommendation One comment

Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder is out with a new book, ‘Anna – A fable about the Earth’s climate and environment’. Fiction, in other words, about climate change. Something we haven’t seen much of among international bestsellers til this date. But,

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