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Business to governments: Make us change

13 September 2023 Mik Aidt Commentary, Recommendation

Twiggy: “Business guided by government will either destroy or save this planet. Announce laws to render illegal any action which would prevent [mitigation of] global warming. Simple! Make us change.”

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Beyond bonkers

13 September 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 475 are Geelong Councillor Sarah Hathway, Lisa Depeller from OCEAN, and Belinda Haydon and Helen Lester from Beyond Gas Network

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Geelong’s cleantech potentials explored

24 August 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Report from a cleantech and circular economy conference in Geelong on 11 August 2023: Nexus Geelong 2023

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Take that, Paris!

22 February 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Cultivating innovation and creativity: Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 448 are Sebastian Berto from Fast Fashun and Jamileh Hargreaves from Moral Fairground.

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Surfers: End all search and new drilling for fossil fuels

24 August 2022 Guest writer Australian matters, Commentary, Petition

Surfers across Australia are opposing a proposed seismic survey for oil and gas in the Bass Strait, covering an area of pristine ocean larger than Tasmania, because of the danger to marine life.

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Gaslighting Geelong: accusations of betrayal

5 August 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters, Petition

Local community groups are outraged that GeelongPort has entered into a commercial agreement with Viva Energy to extend Refinery Pier for a proposed gas import terminal

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The Sustainable Hour’s presentation to the Gashub Inquiry Committee

21 July 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary

We played this video for the Viva Energy Gas Terminal Inquiry and Advisory Committee on 21 July 2022. Transcript below. → If you agree with us that this gas terminal should not be allowed to go ahead, you can add

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Big oil’s delay tactics are the new climate science denialism

13 September 2021 Guest writer Educational, World affairs

Academic researchers say the fossil fuel industry engages in ‘discourses of delay’ to divert attention away from the crisis

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The climate crisis is a crime story

16 July 2021 Guest writer Commentary, Educational, World affairs

Fossil fuel companies lied for decades about climate change, and humanity is paying the price. Shouldn’t those lies be central to the public narrative? By Mark Hertsgaard Every person on Earth today is living in a crime scene. This crime

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Emergence of Gas Free Geelong

28 August 2020 Gas Free Geelong Local Geelong matters

In a Zoom-meeting on 28 August 2020, we launched a new group called Gas Free Geelong to inspire and assist our local business and resident community with transitioning away from gas – and to advocate for the cancellation of any

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Recent Posts

  • Rising up from the grassy plains
  • Business to governments: Make us change
  • Beyond bonkers
  • Clarifying ‘climate’ – and what we do about it
  • Doctor: People are being sacrificed for profits
  • Emergency Town Hall meeting in Melbourne
  • 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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