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Tag: climate-champions

Drawdown for a safe climate

22 February 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

To return to safe levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere – the famous 350 parts per million – we have got to figure out how we can rapidly drawdown huge amounts of carbon. The trouble is that we now

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Renters going solar and a regenerative gruffalo

13 December 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour on 13 December 2017, we talk about Tony’s trip last week to the front line in the battle against the Adani coal mine in Queensland. Tony interviewed 71-year-old Audrey Cooke about why she locked herself on

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Podcast to council and youth leaders: Meet the climate realists

17 April 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters One comment

“We’ve got to be realists, if you’re going to live with the butterflies you’re going to die with the butterflies.” ~ Barnaby Joyce, The Nationals leader, warning those “that oppose fossil fuels” Welcome to the new reality-concept in Australian politics,

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Thought leadership: How local councils crunch the climate stalemate

11 April 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

While the Australian Coal Circus is getting more and more bizarre, with a federal government claiming that wind turbines increase carbon emissions, and that more coal is a great investment, the first Victorian councils are now sending a clear message

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Finding foothold as a wave of climatic counter-logic hits our parliaments

24 January 2017 Mik Aidt Commentary, Petition

Some January 2017 notes with links and contemplations as we enter a new year and are confronted with governments’ increasingly absurd lack of response to the dangerous climate change disruption – the Great Turning, collapse, catastrophe, apocalypse or whatever you want

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The Costa Effect

28 February 2016 Mik Aidt Educational, Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

How do you get an entire school to talk about composting and waste with excitement and big smiles? How do you get kids started on the journey to become sustainability and energy literate – and towards an environmentally conscious behaviour?

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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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Sustainable business excellence a matter of love

19 December 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

“Love what you do,” it says in big letters on the wall in the café at The Farmer’s Place. And this is the starting point for farmer, business man and entrepreneur Robert Pascoe, the owner of the place – and

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Targeting the target confusion

29 August 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

This is Geelong calling. We say it is time to change the way we talk about renewables and emissions targets. First of all, we need to stop the confusing use of percentages in relation to a specific year. Instead, when

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Three brave Australians’ sustainability pilgrimages

18 July 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, World affairs

Today, The Sustainable Hour introduces you to three adventurous Australians who went one big step further to spread the message about the urgent need for change as far as our environmental impact and carbon footprint is concerned. Mary Beth Gundrum

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