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Tag: economy

Time to wake up: How fossil fuel money captured democracy and blocked climate action

22 July 2025 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse warns about the dangers the hidden power of dark money in politics.

Open blogpost

RICHER THAN BEFORE: Building renewable economies

9 July 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour are Wayne Wadsworth (Wadzy), and Marama Grace Brownsdon (Mims).

Open blogpost

The climate crisis is an inequality crisis

27 April 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

The staggering accumulation of wealth and power by a privileged few is driving both social and ecological breakdown. It is in everybody’s interest to solve this problem.

Open blogpost

Finding the money for sustainability

28 February 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 492 are Steven Hail and Gabi Bond from Modern Monetary Laboratory and Mark Tilly from Carbon Pulse.

Open blogpost

Introducing: The Sustainable Civilisation

18 August 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Recommendation, World affairs

Interview with author Mark Diesendorf about his new book, ‘The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation’.

Open blogpost

The Sustainable Civilisation – Podcast interview transcript

18 August 2023 Mik Aidt Educational

Transcript of Mik Aidt’s interview with associate professor Mark Diesendorf about ‘The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation’

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Path to carbon freedom: Collectivised power

17 May 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 459 are Paul Oosting from Acacia Money and Tammi Jonas from the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance

Open blogpost

Investments in decarbonising solutions

26 April 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 456 are Mike Bodsworth, who is deputy mayor of Surf Coast Shire, and Blair Palese, managing director of Climate & Capital Media.

Open blogpost

Costs we don’t cover and the prices we pay

20 June 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no. 417 with Steven Hail and Gabrielle Bond about an exciting new eco-economics course at Torrens University in Adelaide, and a tribute to climate strategist Philip Sutton who died suddenly last week.

Open blogpost

The storychanging case for a Green Recovery

29 May 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

Clippings from the newsstream and research about what a ‘green recovery’ means – and how it can improve our quality of life

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