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Tag: conservative values

It’s about Our Future

26 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Local Geelong matters

The ‘Our Future’ vision for Geelong is a challenge of a lifetime – but we can do it. Geelong is about to find out whether politics and votes can be determined not by the usual short-term election promises which everyone

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New Zealand has moved on: cross-party support for climate action

29 April 2017 Mik Aidt Educational, Recommendation, World affairs

What does it take to unite politicians of all parties in a parliament to start working on finding real climate solutions? Ask New Zealand, because they have done it. While the Australian parliament has turned into a coal-clown circus of

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Right on climate and fear of coal

17 February 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour on 15 February 2017 we listen to speeches by author Paul Gilding, former conservative leader John Hewson and author David Spratt, who spoke at the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne, and we talk over the phone

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Climate action speeches at the Sustainable Living Festival 2017

17 February 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters

» John Hewson and David Spratt: Right on climate » Paul Gilding: Great Disruption to great transition » Exploring the critical role local councils can play in reversing global warming RIGHT ON CLIMATE John Hewson on climate change and conservative thinking

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Climate emergency radio relay

2 November 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Petition One comment

We have a climate emergency, but no one is reporting or acting on the facts. What are we going to do? Inspired by American presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ call for a World War II mobilisation, we started asking a row

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Climate inaction linked to culture of cutting corners

29 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Educational One comment

 [CLIMATIC ROOT TREATMENT]  is a series of blogposts seeking to uncover and understand the deeper roots of society’s problems with taking appropriate action on the climate emergency, and to explore the advantages we could see once the action sets in.

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Green sustainability is the ultimate blue

9 May 2014 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“Sustainability is actually an extreme right wing philosophy,” explains our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 7 May 2014: Tim Adams. Tim Adams is the principal of F2 Design. He is also the Immediate Past President of the Building Designers’

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100% electric car driving school in Geelong

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