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Tag: climate anxiety

Geelong Connection Café to strengthen community resilience

26 September 2025 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation Leave a comment

At our September gathering, a small group of locals in Geelong made an important decision: our long-running Climate Café will now be known as the Geelong Connection Café. Why the change? Because words matter. While climate is central to our concerns, the word often carries a weight of crisis and

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Bold steps, tiny homes and zero waste futures

20 August 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

With Cat Macleod, Friday Vigils for Climate, Phae Barrett, Geelong Tiny Home Expo, and Kirsty Bishop-Fox, Zero Waste Festival.

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The key of empathy: climate action with kindness and courage

11 June 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 552 is Belinda Baggs, co-founder of Surfers for Climate.

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Mental health repercussions of climate inaction

1 May 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

Members of the community are encouraged to send a letter about mental health and climate to their local respresentatives in Parliament

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A safe climate is a human right

17 April 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 499 are former corporate lawyer Robert Hinkley and filmmaker Michael Shaw. We also play two excerpts of talks by professor and author Jem Bendell.

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Climate Hunger Games – The Australian Way

12 November 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary

The many Australian organisations dedicated to combating climate breakdown need to unite now and get behind Gregory Andrews hunger strike and petition.

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Mindful, independent and fossilfree Australia

18 October 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 479 are mindfulness meditation teacher Suzie Brown, and Jaimie Jeffries and Julie Hart from the Independent & Peaceful Australia Network.

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Clarifying ‘climate’ – and what we do about it

7 September 2023 Mik Aidt Commentary

How is the understanding of ‘climate’ being clarified by various climate groups and advocates? – and what are climate campaigners suggesting we should do about it?

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Care, connect, collaborate and contribute

21 June 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on ‘Show Your Stripes Day’ are Millie Rooney from Australia Remade and Matt Bray from Art Disrupt.

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Momentum for a unified climate movement

1 February 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 445 are climate activist Violet CoCo and director of the National Sustainable Living Festival Luke Taylor.

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