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Tag: democracy

Climate questions to Geelong candidates

5 October 2020 Fridays For Future Geelong Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

At election time, there are so many scorecards and interest groups coming out to spoon-feed you and tell you who to vote for. The group of volunteers behind the Geelong Community Survey 2020 has produced a candidate survey, which they

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Clever and creative women putting climate first

30 September 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

On 30 September 2020 The Sustainable Hour hosts a panel of ‘Put Climate First’ candidates for Geelong and one from the Surf Coast Shire for the local government elections that are rapidly approaching via our postboxes.

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The Sustainable House in the age of change

23 September 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no 333 about Sustainable House Day, a ‘Put Climate First’ election campaign, The Change Agency and the school strike for climate on Friday.

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Questions to your local election candidates

22 September 2020 Gas Free Geelong Educational, Recommendation

11 points and 14 questions for Councils to reduce household gas demand

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Build an election platform for climate safety

8 August 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

Words and ideas you can pick up, take inspiration from or copy/paste for your climate emergency election campaign.

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Geelong Council decides on climate action plan

28 July 2020 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Geelong Council’s new climate action plan and policy paper demonstrate a little progress has been made on climate change within the city hall chambers.

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Promising results from a citizens’ climate convention

3 July 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Recommendation, World affairs

Citizens’ Climate Conventions – also known as citizens’ assemblies on climate – are emerging as the new norm for legitimate and quality decision-making in many democratic forums around the world. Is the climate movement paying attention?

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Deepening democracy

24 June 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Deepening democracy: Our guests in ‘The Tunnel’ today are Anna Langford from Friends of the Earth Melbourne and Sonia Randhawa from the Sortition Foundation and Coalition of Everyone.

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Tom O’Connor: Who do we want to be

19 June 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational, Recommendation

Guest in our 22nd Regenerative Hour is Tom O’Connor, a former Geelong councillor, swimming coach and an active local community organiser, who lives in Drysdale on the Bellarine Peninsula. He will run for the Geelong Council election in August 2020.

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Shane Ward: Better systems thinking for a resilient future

29 May 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational, Recommendation

Can we turn the 2020s into ‘The Regenerative Decade’? In this series of interviews about what that would imply, we talk ecology, deep adaptation, grief, compassion and passion, connecting with nature, resilience, revitalisation, restoration, revolution… – the bigger picture, in

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