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Tag: health

Changing the climate paradigm

29 November 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

When it comes to climate change, “we are suffering a dearth of vision and political will,” says ‘the accidental councillor’ David Bell, an organic farmer who recently was appointed as the new mayor of Surf Coast Shire. “Let’s change the

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Climate reality and a doctor’s call

6 June 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Dr John Iser from Doctors for the Environment, who is also a Climate Reality Project coordinator, is our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse on 8 June 2016 for a conversation around how doctors respond to and

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European doctors enter the fight for climate safety

3 June 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, World affairs One comment

“Climate change is a medical emergency,” said professor Hugh Montgomery, director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance, in June 2015. “It thus demands an emergency response, using the technologies available right now. Under such circumstances, no doctor

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In a Danish cyclist’s perspective: What is wrong in Geelong

23 January 2016 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters

Listen to Bethany, Heather and Maria in The Bicycle Show on 14 November 2015 on 94.7 The Pulse as they interview Mik Aidt, 53 – a cycling Viking, or an exiled ‘Biking’, as he moved from Copenhagen to Geelong, Australia

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How Barwon Health is becoming a greener health service

3 August 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

With 6,500 staff across 21 sites, Barwon Health is the largest employer in Geelong region, and one of the largest and most comprehensive regional health services in all of Australia. Our guests in the sustainable studio on 94.7 The Pulse

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Reasons why gas mining in Victoria must be stopped

7 July 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

A radio podcast for politicians and decision makers in the Victorian state parliament about the prospects of turning farmland into industrial gasfields. 1.3 million hectares of land in Victoria is threatened by onshore gas mining. The 80th Sustainable Hour on

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The big news about climate and our health

3 July 2015 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

A new global health report calls climate change a ‘health emergency’, but also an opportunity. Citizens are taking legal action against their own governments’ inaction on climate change because it is going to harm the nation. And in Holland, they

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Warning from doctors: protect yourselves from gas mining

14 December 2013 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

What will it take to protect the health and well-being of the local residents and environment from fracking and gas mining? This question was investigated at a public meeting in Geelong, Australia, on 12 December 2013. “People like us who

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