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Tag: divestment

Better conversations a prerequisite for bike connections

7 February 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Why is it either a ‘Big Yes!’ or ‘Hell No!’ to new bike lanes? Could there be a middle ground? If we want better bike connections in our city, there are a number of myths to be dispelled and frustrations

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Active citizens getting clever and creative

11 May 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 10 May 2017 is Samuel Pottenger from 350.org for a talk about Australia’s energy market and about what it means to be an active citizen. Does active citizenship mean, for instance, that you

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Empowered locals gain momentum in times of energy turmoil

9 October 2016 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters One comment

In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 5 October 2016 we meet liberal ex-senator Peter Rae at the All-Energy 2016 conference for a talk about the federal government’s spin and mistruths around the renewable energy targets in South

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Finding local solutions to climate change

30 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 28 September 2016 we participate in a divestment action event at Vision Super’s headquarters, we hear about the climate emergency, and we jump of joy over the new climate change poll

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Tangible climate change action through divestment

29 September 2016 Web Editor Educational, Local Geelong matters

In 2016, the national Divestment Day in Australia was on 7 October, and action took place in Geelong as well, with customers of the four big banks closing their bank accounts, moving over to banks which are not closely knitted

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Students and scientists sounding the climate trumpet

26 August 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in the studio: Daniel ‘Sully’ Sullivan, Sarah Hathway and Lois Newman. Prerecorded interview: Tim Flannery, author. More info below. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 136 on 94.7 The Pulse: » To open or download this programme in mp3-format,

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European doctors enter the fight for climate safety

3 June 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, World affairs One comment

“Climate change is a medical emergency,” said professor Hugh Montgomery, director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance, in June 2015. “It thus demands an emergency response, using the technologies available right now. Under such circumstances, no doctor

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How we respond to the spiraling climate emergency

6 May 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, World affairs

An hour on 94.7 The Pulse about climate emergency, the Break Free campaign, divestment, civil disobedience …and knitting. Guests in the studio: • Jesse Nicolle Kalic and Darcy Poulton, students who were ‘locked on’ at a recent divestment campaign at

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Speaking of how we can act on climate

28 January 2016 Mik Aidt Educational, Local Geelong matters

Speeches held at the Act on Climate Festival opening night and film evening in Geelong in November 2015. On this page you have an opportunity to listen to thought-provoking and inspiring speeches held at two events where residents in Geelong

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Go fossil free – and tell your councillors to do the same

24 December 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“This is a dead duck,” say our guests. They are talking about the fossil fuel industry. However, it is obviously not quite dead yet, because as strange as it may sound considering the warnings about how global warming caused by

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