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Tag: climate despair

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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From collapse to coherence: In preparation for what is coming

21 May 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 549 is Michael Haupt, systems thinker and founder of Evolutionary Agents

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Unprecedented territory

2 August 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 470 are #Getoffgas campaigner Freja Leonard, climate activist Joana Partyka, and Dr Kate Booth and Tristan Sykes from Just Collapse.

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Together: How music can heal country and climate

7 July 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

An hour with Simon Kerr from Music for a Warming World and Jeannie Marsh from Melbourne’s Climate Choir and Musician’s Climate Crisis Network.

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THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: The call of the world

30 October 2020 Mik Aidt Educational, Recommendation, World affairs

Jan Morgan and Graeme Garrett, authors of ‘On the Edge’, teach a practice of attention, responding to the call of the world with an open heart. The energy for change and new ways of being in the world then comes to birth, they say.

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The Sustainable Disaster Hour

28 October 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

We take an encouraging step on the Stairway to Hiatus in The Tunnel this week. Together with our three guests we discover how to live – and live well – in the climate emergency. Welcome to our first ‘Sustainable Disaster Hour’!

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Climate safety – who cares

12 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Educational One comment

Today I did something I’ve never done before. I did an angry podcast, and put myself in front of the microphone most of the way. My mood was triggered by a couple things.

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THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: Carbon March to #BurstTheBubble

12 December 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

Podcast with Stuart Rosson, author of the cli-fi novel ‘East’, about an impending collapse and the idea of starting a Carbon March to Canberra to #BurstTheBubble

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Where are the adults?

2 August 2019 Mik Aidt Recommendation, World affairs

Will the adult world and their trade unions take up the strike challenge for the ‘Global Week For Future’ on 20 to 27 September 2019? In the lead up to Earth Strike on 27 September, the Swedish Fridays For Future group has written an open letter to the Swedish trade

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Juggling with the ‘It’s-already-too-late’ syndrome

2 July 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational, World affairs

“I have had a big blue fear since I heard in a speech that for Planet Earth, it was too late. I felt collapsed for 15 seconds.”~ Brice Pascal Abbey In an era of global ecological destruction, climate change is increasing individual and societal anxiety, depression, existential dread and solastalgia.

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