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Tag: greenwashing

Runway to calamity

10 July 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 511 is Mark Carter, co-founder of Flight Free Australia.

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Accelerating the transition to honesty

10 April 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 498 are Matt Bray from Environmental Film Festival Australia and Hugh The Waste Wizard.

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Business for truth telling

22 November 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 484 is Chloe Davison, co-founder of Glaze Sustainability, a Brisbane-based consultancy firm that “helps businesses thrive in the new low-emissions economy of circularity.”

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Lighthouses and climate strikers shine on our future

8 November 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 8 November 2023 are Shaun Deverson from Lighthouse Futures and climate school strikers Joey Thompson and Myles Wilkinson.

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Build the difference

28 September 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no. 431 on 28 September with Belinda Noble from Comms Declare and Karina Donkers and Bev Merrett from Sustainable House Day Geelong.

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With hypocrisy comes opportunity

21 July 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Hour no 372 is Shaun Murray, national co-ordinator of the DontNABourFuture campaign, joined by our editor Jackie Matthews.

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Budget: The climate emergency response is in the detail

23 May 2021 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

Does the Geelong Council’s proposed budget reflect that the Council has acknowledged that we are in a climate emergency?
We took a benchmarking-look at what Queenscliffe and Surf Coast currently are doing in comparison.

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Politics and activism on and off line

28 April 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 360 on 28 April 2021 are Adrian Whitehead from the Climate Emergency Action Alliance, and Glenn Todd and Hayley Sestokis, founders of Action Skills.

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In the midst of it all, in the door steps The Sensible Citizen

15 November 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

Inaction on the climate emergency only makes sense in a shortsighted perspective. Enter The Sensible Citizen who has the capacity to think long term and to think independently, able to see straight through all the media ‘white noise’ – the fake

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Climate inaction linked to culture of cutting corners

29 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Educational One comment

 [CLIMATIC ROOT TREATMENT]  is a series of blogposts seeking to uncover and understand the deeper roots of society’s problems with taking appropriate action on the climate emergency, and to explore the advantages we could see once the action sets in.

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  • State of the climate in 2025: telling it as it is
  • Cinematic call to reconnect with nature
  • The key of empathy: climate action with kindness and courage
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  • Business sector to demystify the three letters of ESG
  • Beyond the words: What happens after a climate emergency is declared?
  • Be the demand and the shift will follow
  • Climate Café – monthly gatherings in Geelong
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  • Will we need the robots to save us from ourselves?
  • The universal language of our transformation: art

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