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Tag: Geelong

Help make our community’s climate action more visible

8 August 2019 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

The Victorian parliament is wanting inputs on how our communities are responding to the existential threat of climate breakdown. They would like to hear about which actions people and organisations in the local communities are taking to reduce emissions in an effort to limit the magnitude of long-term global warming

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The climate emergency declaration hour

3 July 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour’s special one-hour report on the global movement of local governments declaring a climate emergency

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Petition: Call on Geelong Council to declare

31 May 2019 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Petition

We used to say, “to declare a climate emergency.” Now it has become such a common thing to do that people just say “to declare” and expect everyone to know what they mean. → You can add your name to the petition here:www.geelong.climateemergencydeclaration.org/petition – – – – – – –

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#GlobalClimateStrike: biggest climate action ever

15 March 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

‘We are the change’ – Excerpts from Geelong’s #ClimateStrike on 15 March 2019

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Sustainability leaders touching us all

27 February 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 27 February 2019 are: [20:50] Judy Hassel, organiser of the Sustainable Living Show in Queenscliffe on 23 March 2019. [33:04] Brianne West, founder of the beauty products company Ethique, who talks about how we can reduce the use of plastic across all aspects in

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Two councillors’ and a teenager’s recipe for change

13 February 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 13 Februay 2019 are two first-time councillors of the Greater Geelong City Council: Cr Sarah Mansfield, Chair of the Environment and Sustainability Portfolio, and Cr Stephanie Asher, Chair of the Planning Portfolio.

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Australian parents angry about climate threat

4 February 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Petition, Recommendation

Australian Parents for Climate Action demand immediate emergency-scale action from all levels of government and from business to safeguard the future for our children by cutting atmospheric greenhouse emissions to safe levels…

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Persistent presence in the face of parliamentarians

28 January 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary

Every Friday Caroline Danaher and whoever else joins her on the day sit at a table right in front of the office of their local member of the federal parliament: Sarah Henderson, member for Corangamite, who has her office in Waurn Ponds in the outskirts of Geelong…

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School strikers: “What we are doing here today is change”

23 November 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

A three-minute report from the ‘school strike’ for climate action in Geelong, Australia, with interviews with some of the students who bravely walked out from their different schools in Geelong on Friday 23 November 2018. The #FridaysForFuture action took place in front of Labor member of federal parliament Richard Marles’

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Zero carbon cities gather momentum

4 November 2018 Mik Aidt Recommendation, World affairs

When the world’s most carbon-conscious mayors meet in Copenhagen to learn how some cities are heading for zero carbon already during the 2020s, will your city’s mayor be among them? If not, have you asked: Why not? Why is this important in a climate breakdown perspective? Because cities account for

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