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Tag: greenwashing

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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Crunch time: Modern technology meets Australia’s ‘amazing’ coal

11 September 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters

“The refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe gives us a sobering glimpse of what a less stable world looks like.” OurVoices.net In The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 9 September 2015 we listen to excerpts from

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100% electric car driving school in Geelong

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  • Beetaloo must be the line in the sand for Australia
  • Revolution of the imagination
  • Uprising, resistance, rebellion, and system change calls
  • Search for the missing ingredient: leadership
  • Geelong’s cleantech potentials explored
  • Australian climate movement: ‘Yes’ to the Voice
  • Introducing: The Sustainable Civilisation
  • The Sustainable Civilisation – Podcast interview transcript
  • Calls on young women to stand up and be heard
  • Rest and repair
  • Unprecedented territory
  • Robert Hinkley: Corporations need a moral compass
  • Talk with those who come after us
  • Gardening the reef and behaviour change
  • We are playing with fire
  • Igniting action for climate and native grasses
  • Climate activist joins Geelong Council
  • Spider crab mystery and biodiesel mastery
  • Care, connect, collaborate and contribute
  • Stepping up together
  • What an emergency response would look like
  • Most people are not fish
  • Harnessing the power of air pressure
  • Path to carbon freedom: Collectivised power
  • How togetherness breeds happiness
  • Call on Government to change the law
  • The Sustainable Hour no. 457: Be together
  • Investments in decarbonising solutions
  • Getting involved with faith and fashion

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