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Tag: civil disobedience

Climate fighters putting bubbles and bodies on the line

7 December 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The blockade of Adani’s construction works in Queensland is becoming Australia’s next frontline in the fight against the climate crisis caused by an industry that wants us to keep burning their fossil fuels. In the morning on 6 December 2017,

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Fight against coal to become “the fight of our time”

12 April 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters 4 comments

First some good news: Australia’s dirtiest power station, Hazelwood, has closed down. And it is the ninth and largest coal-burning power station to close in the past five years in Australia. However, there are 20 coal power stations remaining in

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Go GIY: Green It Yourself

13 October 2016 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, World affairs

It is Sustainable House Day in Geelong region on Sunday 16 October 2016, and that is what The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse focuses on this Wednesday: Vicki Perrett, Sustainable House Day organiser, with home owners Susan Weymouth, Dan Cowdell

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The case of civil disobedience: Meet the friendly ‘eco-fascists’ in the Pilliga

14 March 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary

The Sustainable Hour visits the Pilliga forest in New South Wales where a group of activists are protesting against the company Santos which wants to extract gas there with the use of the controversial ‘fracking’ method. Whether we should allow

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International Youth Day in The Sustainable Hour

12 August 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Listen to this week’s news bulletin from Jack Nyhof in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse: 12 August 2015 was the United Nations’ International Youth Day, and inspired by this, Jack Nyhof also produced this special report from Geelong

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Photo: courtesy of Digital Vision / Thinkstock

Modern society is a suicide cult

24 September 2013 Jens-André Herbener Commentary

Liberal and Conservative politicians accuse science of climate change of doomsday hysteria, but do not see the religious plank in their own eyes. Most people have heard about cults, which in the name of religious fanaticism commit collective suicide and

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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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First Carbon World War: who smells smoke?

31 July 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs

The CO2-pollution crisis is just as serious as if a large asteroid were on a collision course towards Earth, says a British scientist, and he is backed by calculations from Canadian and US scientists which show that runaway greenhouse effect

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