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Tag: good news

Climate Café – monthly gatherings in Geelong

27 May 2025 Mik Aidt Recommendation

Join us at the Geelong Climate Café at 3-5pm on the fourth Friday of each month.

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In celebration of how we are moving forward

21 April 2024 Mik Aidt Educational

Despite the often gloomy news cycle, there are beacons of progress lighting up the path forward.

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Good news we take with us into 2023

27 December 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, World affairs

New Year is a time to take a breather, recharge the batteries and lift the glasses, while reflecting on both the wins and the failures of the year that went by. 2022 was a year flooded with bad news, however so much the more, it is important at this time

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Wellbeing as in love, laughter and zero waste

7 September 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 428 are Kirsty Bishop-Fox, founder of Zero Waste Festival, and Laura Grufas, national community organiser in Australian Parents for Climate Action

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Reuse, reduce, DANCE, recycle, repeat

24 August 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters 3 comments

In The Sustainable Hour no. 426, we welcome Mik Aidt back from his two weeks in Denmark. The tables are turned on him as he becomes our guest.

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How emergency can lead to co-operation and excitement

27 July 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 422 on 27 July 2022 are Rochelle Rich and Dawn O’Neill. We also play clips from the American president and the UN General-Secretary.

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Surprising energy news and ideas in The Tunnel

1 April 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 1 April 2020 are Brad Homewood, Coral Bleach and Lignite Pitt QC, Tim Buckley, Petra Goerschel and Silja Nyboe Andersen

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I hereby declare The Story as changed

21 May 2019 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

The strategy of getting more councils and governments to declare a climate emergency is changing the story. Why is that important?

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Headlines of good news we tend to overlook

7 January 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

In particular in the field of renewable energy, 2018 gave us many landmark moments and remarkable news headlines that called for optimism. Though frustratingly slowly, the story is changing.

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Zero carbon companies gather momentum

5 November 2018 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

488 companies have set their own emissions reduction targets Companies representing around one eighth of total global market capitalisation are now using climate science to define their future direction of travel. Over 130 new corporates have made science-based emissions reduction commitments since start of 2018. That is a 39 per

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