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Tag: climate change

Your council is prepared to evolve. Are you?

16 October 2014 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In the 47th Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 15 October 2014, we report from the meeting on 14 October where Geelong Council unanimously voted to advocate for a permanent state ban on fracking. Our guests in the studio are painter and artist Mary Constance Black, and Jackray Black

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America says: “We will do our part!” And Australia?

2 October 2014 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

The 45th Sustainable Hour on 1 October 2014 reports from the UN Climate Summit in New York on 23 September 2014 and from the Gasrush Information Night in Geelong on 18 September 2014. One of three speakers at the Gasrush meeting was Ben Courtice from Friends of the Earth and

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Speaking up for climate action and renewable energy

24 September 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters 2 comments

The 44th Sustainable Hour on 24 September 2014 reports from two meetings held in Geelong. An information evening about fracking – and the People’s Climate March. Guest in the studio: Chris Johnson, ‘fractivist’ and member of Geelong Sustainability Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 44: » To open or download

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“March now or swim later!”

15 September 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

On Sunday Geelong residents will kick off a global day of action to show support for action on climate change. The following day, on Monday 22 September 2014, 126 presidents and prime ministers from around the world – Australia’s not included – will be arriving in New York for a

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Climate challenges embraced in Geelong

14 September 2014 Mik Aidt Educational

Listen to three Climate Reality Leaders explain how we solve what is far and away the greatest challenge of our time – the global climate change crisis. Within the next decade, the world needs to triple its investments in renewable energy to help avert a climate catastrophe. This enormous challenge

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Geelong gets up for climate action

3 September 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters One comment

A state election is approaching in Victoria in November. Will we hear any of the candidates talk about sustainability, onshore gas exploration, or climate change policy in their debate at public election meetings and in the media? A new initiative is going to work hard to make sure that in

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Amid silence and indecision a climate warrior steps in

31 August 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, World affairs

The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 27 August 2014 is inspired by the two-minute trailer for the new documentary ‘Disruption’, which is premiering in the United States on 7 September, exactly two weeks before the Global Climate Action Day and the largest climate action march ever in New

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Energy, greendom and kitchen tables in Geelong

20 August 2014 Mik Aidt Australian matters

In the sustainable studio on 94.7 The Pulse on 20 August 2014 we have Leigh Ewbank with us from Friends of the Earth. ‘The Vegemite Man’ – as he has become known in media because people recognise him on his sweater – has travelled from Melbourne to talk with us

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Audio-postcard from the future of fracking

30 July 2014 Mik Aidt Educational

An educational radio podcast for councillors and others about the prospects of turning our farmland into industrial gasfields. 1.3 million hectares of land in Victoria is threatened by unconventional gas mining. Surf Coast, the Otways… even areas right up to the city of Geelong are at risk of being turned

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Pathways to safe climate restoration

12 July 2014 Mik Aidt Australian matters, World affairs

Welcome to the 33rd Sustainable Hour on a wet and windy day in July – which is not going to keep us from talking about the sun – about solar energy and solutions to the climate change problems. Today we are going to be talking honestly and seriously about this

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