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Tag: bushfires

Be ready for the climate reset

4 February 2026 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in the first Sustainable Hour in 2026 is Luke Taylor, the National Sustainability Festival’s director.

Open blogpost

When survival meets policy failure

14 January 2026 Mik Aidt Australian matters

Many frontline communities are carrying a deep sense of betrayal.

Open blogpost

These climate disasters are not an accident

13 January 2026 Mik Aidt Educational

As 2026 begins and Australia faces fires and floods, it is time to take stock and get our act together – together.

Open blogpost

Denial meets reality: Victoria enters a state of climate disaster

12 January 2026 Mik Aidt Commentary

18 councils in Victoria are now under a “state of disaster”. Damage control because prevention has failed.

Open blogpost

Accelerating the transition to honesty

10 April 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 498 are Matt Bray from Environmental Film Festival Australia and Hugh The Waste Wizard.

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Correction: This is not “Mother Nature”

1 November 2023 Mik Aidt Commentary

Reporting on one climate-driven tragedy after the other, why is no one in mainstream media willing to state the necessary, “So this is the reason we urgently need to stop the burning of fossil fuels”?

Open blogpost

Do we deserve this?

23 November 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 439, three days before the Victorian State Election, is ‘Australia’s first climate refugee’ Rod Simpson.

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‘Do better’-principles connect us

10 June 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

A Sustainable Hour about bushfire horrors, resilience, Returner Cups, ‘We can do better’ principles that connect us – and what the Earth can teach us

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The year of clear climate vision

5 February 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no 299 with architect Alvyn Williams from SoftLoud Architects, Sonia Randhawa from the Coalition of Everyone, and Rick Coleman from Southern Cross Permaculture Institute.

Open blogpost

Recent Posts

  • Be ready for the climate reset
  • Staying cool, staying safe: what electrifying our homes really means
  • Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being
  • From bushfires to community power – a radio conversation on 94.7 The Pulse
  • Australian cowardice at the highest level
  • Meaning that will move us
  • When survival meets policy failure
  • These climate disasters are not an accident
  • Denial meets reality: Victoria enters a state of climate disaster
  • Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa
  • Geelong Advertiser: Paid misinformation on climate
  • A YEAR IN SONG: The soundtrack of The Sustainable Hour 2025
  • CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
  • FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery
  • In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
  • The bats and humans who belong – in Geelong
  • FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment
  • Treaty and protestival – listening for change
  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “Fuck hope. What’s the strategy?”
  • The Climate Safety Plan – ensuring no one is left behind
  • Trash talkers and trauma – how small actions combat climate anxiety
  • Fighting Australia’s carbon bomb – choosing courage over cowardice
  • BE BRUTALLY HONEST. The climate reality we must face
  • From fighting for the climate to serving life on Earth
  • Australia’s transformative, green and ground-up energy revolution
  • GET LOUD – Women at the heart of the green transition
  • PREPARE FOR IMPACT – Australia’s climate risk reality check
  • FORCE OF LIFE: Reinventing our world with a senior uprise, peace of mind, pride, and awe
  • Rethinking the path to change
  • Cost of the fossil con
  • 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
  • Days of sun, sustainability and solutions
  • Tiny homes, huge hearts – resilience and joy in community living

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