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Tag: climate despair

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

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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

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Have: Overwhelmingly gloomy facts. Need: Resilience

7 February 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational, Recommendation

Ready for a self-managed online climate emergency resilience course? I invite you to begin that journey right here, right now. The first step will be to watch two one-hour video presentations which you find further down on this page. But

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Climate emergency: from unmentionable to mainstream

15 November 2018 Mik Aidt World affairs

[ Climatic clippings no 8 in 2018 ] 100 years from now, our descendants will look back on our choices in this era as no less serious than the choices made during WWI. Simply: We have the choice to preserve civilization

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Recent Posts

  • The universal language of our transformation: art
  • From extraction to action: a plan to phase out fossil fuels
  • Growing climate communities with soil, soul, Indigenous wisdom – and banks
  • The world we get is the one we demand
  • You, me & democracy: a vote for bullying or for kindness
  • How to vote card Corangamite and Corio – 2025 federal election climate guide
  • A voice to Australia’s silent climate majority
  • Play your part and vote the difference
  • Community Independent calls out ‘bike path stunt’ in Corangamite campaign
  • Climate Café – monthly gatherings in Geelong
  • Turn your fence into a climate action message board
  • Clean up in the morass of clean energy misinformation
  • Earth Day reflections from the heart
  • Democracy reimagined: rebuilding trust
  • Unlocking the green transition in Australia
  • Community Independent Kate Lockhart’s plan for clean energy and climate integrity
  • Tribute to the Earth – on Monday in Geelong
  • Rhythms of reconnection and nuclear resistance
  • A 25c pre-election bribe: don’t fall for it
  • Why the fossil fuel party line still rules Canberra
  • Charged up for climate – and the ballot box
  • Election announcement from Centre for Climate Safety
  • Juggernaut on the rise: Demystifying the bioeconomy 
  • Labor government’s gas expansion madness exposed in Geelong
  • Reenergising democracy: Make your vote count
  • Democracy is not a spectator sport
  • Climate change and democracy: can Citizens’ Assemblies get us out of this crisis?
  • Introducing: green prosperity
  • Raise the flag for life on Earth
  • Community Independent enters Corangamite race for federal election
  • When in doubt, vote the man out
  • The climate crisis is an inequality crisis
  • Dutton wants to ‘dig baby dig’
  • Climate refugees – where will they all go?
  • The Coalition’s nuclear folly

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