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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’.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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Australia’s Labor party still immersed in gas and coal

1 May 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary

The problem with Labor’s support for climate action is that it is either fake, hollow or misguided. We need to call out those politicians who think they can sign a climate emergency declaration and then spruik fossil fuels. Peter Khalil,

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Upcycling, downshifting and climatically having a go

31 May 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in the Sustainable Hour no 218 are: Claire Ziegler, a member of Geelong Sustainability, the Repair Cafe in Highton and organiser of a World Environment Day event, and Colin Mockett, who is just back from Shanghai and has a

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Changing the story one low-carbon lover at a time

16 March 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

A lowcarbon-loving author, an American economist, a local expert in Geelong’s history and the Terminator help us change the story as we roll out The Sustainable Hour no. 207 on 14 March 2018 on 94.7 The Pulse. Listen here: »

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Australia’s top industrial analyst about Adani’s coal mine: “It’s ludicrous!”

27 April 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

“[Offshore wind energy] has dropped 70 per cent in two years! The International Energy Agency thought that might have happened by 2030, 2040… It’s happened today. And that’s technology for you. That’s finance for you. That’s game over. But the

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