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Tag: green growth

How to love your home with natural light and trikes

18 October 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 18 October 2017 is Geelong Gallery’s deputy-director Penny Whitehead. On the phone we talk with Councillor Cathy Oke, chair of the City of Melbourne Environmental Portfolio. At the Humans in Geelong Expo, Tony meets

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Life after growth requires closer relationship to natural resources

23 December 2016 Web Editor Commentary

Migration to the cities of the world and declining respect for craftsmanship has distanced us from nature. When people no longer live close to nature or work with its resources, they lose respect for it. This has paved the way

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City of Greater Geelong endorses the One Planet Living principles

30 October 2014 Mik Aidt Commentary One comment

In the evening on 28 October 2014, Geelong’s Council approved a new Environment Management Strategy. It was a cheerful moment for both the councillors and the local residents who had been following and influencing the process. The paper has been

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60,000 steps towards the City of Trees

19 July 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

In Australia, the National Tree Day is coming up, and in the 34th Sustainable Hour, we take this as an opportunity to go green and talk in-depth about both practical and visionary aspects of tree planting. As part of the

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Renew Geelong with ‘invisible force’ of optimism

12 March 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

“Renew Geelong!”, everyone says – but how? For a start by creating a new narrative around how we deal with the employment crisis that Geelong is currently experiencing. In Chinese writing, the word ‘crisis’ is made up of two signs

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The Sustainable Hour about energy, people and power

5 February 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

On 5 February 2013, The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse embarked on an ‘Eco-Energy Quest’ together with Surf Coast councillor Eve Fisher who just returned from a study tour which took her to the United States, Canada, Germany and

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Speaking of sustainability: Cleantech, green roofs and local food

29 October 2013 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Could Geelong become Australia’s ‘cleantech capital’? Or the ‘green roof capital’? Already there are a couple of initiatives happening in the city in regard to cleantech technologies and green roofs, and the potential is there, we learned from the speakers

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Danish capital awarded for sustainable design solutions

30 August 2013 Mik Aidt World affairs

On 29 August 2013, the Danish capital Copenhagen received an Index Award – the world’s biggest design award – for the city’s climate adaptation plan because, according to the jury, it provides “a unique and robust framework for a massive

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Hello World

29 January 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary One comment

Australia, January 2013. This month in Australia, 250 scientists from around the planet met in Hobart to contribute to the next major report from United Nations’ chief climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Recent heatwaves and raging

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100% electric car driving school in Geelong

Recent Posts

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  • The world we get is the one we demand
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  • A voice to Australia’s silent climate majority
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  • Climate Café – monthly gatherings in Geelong
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  • Clean up in the morass of clean energy misinformation
  • Earth Day reflections from the heart
  • Democracy reimagined: rebuilding trust
  • Unlocking the green transition in Australia
  • Community Independent Kate Lockhart’s plan for clean energy and climate integrity
  • Tribute to the Earth – on Monday in Geelong
  • Rhythms of reconnection and nuclear resistance
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  • Election announcement from Centre for Climate Safety
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  • Labor government’s gas expansion madness exposed in Geelong
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  • Democracy is not a spectator sport
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  • Introducing: green prosperity
  • Raise the flag for life on Earth
  • Community Independent enters Corangamite race for federal election
  • When in doubt, vote the man out

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