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Tag: industry

Open letter to Viva Energy – about gas, jobs and Geelong’s future

8 June 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

Open letter to Viva Energy’s unnamed spokesperson, challenging the claim that a gas terminal is “good news” for our community.

Open blogpost

Gas expansion versus people-powered change

4 June 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 551 is Colin Long, Just Transition Officer at Trades Hall Council in Melbourne.

Open blogpost

Labor government’s gas expansion madness exposed in Geelong

21 March 2025 Mik Aidt Commentary

Victoria’s Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio’s office is considering “every possible” option to expand the supply of gas.

Open blogpost

The lethal cost of fossil fuels: A human life for every thousand tonnes burned

4 November 2024 Mik Aidt Educational

A startling statistic emerges: for every 1,000 tonnes of fossil carbon burned, one human life is prematurely lost.

Open blogpost

Zoom meeting: No large incinerators for Victoria

10 September 2024 Editor Recommendation

Zoom meeting on Thursday 19 September 2024 at 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Open blogpost

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.

Open blogpost

THE REGENERATIVE HOUR: The toxic chemical

29 January 2024 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

In The Regenerative Hour no 31, we talk with the author of ‘Toxic Legacy’ about what glyphosate does to the health of the soil and to the health of humans.

Open blogpost

Everything is fine*

21 December 2023 Guest writer Recommendation

Support FossilAdBan’s call on the Lord Mayor of Brisbane to end fossil fuel promotions on council-owned property.

Open blogpost

We have to make it work

25 October 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 480 are Paul Sinclair from the Australian Conservation Foundation, Kristin Vaughan from Virescent Ventures, and Dutch graphic designer Tijs Bonekamp.

Open blogpost

Benefit from having a net zero strategy

4 October 2023 Guest writer Recommendation

Every business – big and small – can benefit from having a net zero strategy. Course and webinar recording.

Open blogpost

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