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Tag: community energy

People-powered solutions saving on emissions and money

16 May 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“Decarbonisation is the great task of our generation and Costa Rica must be one of the first countries in the world to accomplish it, if not the first.” ~ Carlos Alvarado, President of Costa Rica, May 2018 Find out what

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Replacing Big Energy with community solar

15 May 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

The Geelong Community Solar Rebellion Why I am interested in this community solar program Interviews with Jen Fuller, Sheryl Biddle and Lindsey Fuller recorded after Alex Georgiou’s presentation at Geelong Library on 14 May 2018 . . . . .

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Sow beauty and free energy, not pollution and destruction

26 April 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Replacing Big Energy with community solar. Podcast about the community rebellion. Our guest in the sustainable studio on 25 April 2018 is Geelong Sustainability’s project manager Dan Cowdell, who has great news about ‘CORE Geelong One’ – a newly launched solar

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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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The renewable energy revolution is happening

13 October 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Studio on 11 October 2017 is Dan Cowdell from Geelong Sustainability. He is the project coordinator of Geelong’s first investor-financed community energy project. We also talk with Tom Hunt who is member of Citizens’ Climate Lobby,

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The solar step: “Our community is ours to change”

24 August 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

From renewables procrastination and fear to action, and even a guitar and beer… Guest in the sustainable studio on 23 August 2017 is Suzie Brown from Ocean Grove who is one of the founders of Reenergise Geelong and speaker at

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Ten Stars to community repowering and clever housing

17 August 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Today we talk community renewables, clever housing and star rating systems in The Sustainable Hour as the communities around Geelong and the Surf Coast are charging up for an energy transformation which is both clever and economical. “The key to

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Going 100% renewables – how to actually make it happen

20 June 2017 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

Can an entire region transform to being self-supplied by 100 per cent renewable energy in less than ten years? Yes, explains Søren Hermansen from Denmark who spearheaded his island’s efforts to become energy independent and even a clean energy exporter.

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Community Power Hour: Grown, gathered and united as one

15 March 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour of Power: Interviews with Peter Yacono, director of the documentary film ‘Our Power’, and Matt Purbrick, co-author of the book ‘Grown & Gathered’. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 160 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To open

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Petition peak moment, community power and The Bentley Effect

5 March 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters One comment

Reports from a climate emergency petition peak moment in Canberra, a congress about community power in Melbourne, and from New South Wales where the so-called ‘Bentley Effect’ has been transforming local communities. Welcome to the Sustainable Hour on 1 March

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