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Tag: leadership

Take it from our planetary chief

10 September 2020 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

World powers must pull together and retool their economies for a green future or humanity is “doomed”, UN chief Antonio Guterres warns in this interview.

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Business leaders declare a climate emergency

17 July 2019 Mik Aidt Recommendation, World affairs One comment

On 20 May, Dale Vince, an entrepreneur and founder of the renewable energy utilities firm Ecotricity, publicly declared a climate emergency for his company with a pledge to upgrade the company’s current sustainability commitments to become a carbon-neutral business by 2025

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Strike for safety. Climate safety

20 September 2018 Mik Aidt Recommendation, World affairs

“If grown-ups don’t give a shit about my future, I won’t either.” ~ Greta Thunberg “I don’t care if I get into trouble at school. I believe that one person can make a difference.” ~ Greta Thunberg, 15-year-old Swedish student

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Working with nature to cultivate system change

5 September 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, Recommendation, World affairs

We had planned to present you with an hour about regenerative farming practices, healthy soils and carbon drawdown solutions. But then the Swedish teenage-oracle Greta Thunberg stepped into our lives, and The Sustainable Hour on 5 September 2018 morphed into

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I will never fly again

29 August 2018 Jesper Grimstrup Commentary

With all the knowledge that I have about global warming and with what I see happening around the world — extreme weather, downpours, droughts, heatwaves, superstorms — I now believe that the situation is so serious and urgent that I

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Clean energy rocks

6 June 2018 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

The fossil fools in the Australian government can wave their lumps of coal in the parliamentarian chambers as much as they like. It won’t change a thing. Clean energy is moving in and taking over, simply because it is cheaper

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Upcycling, downshifting and climatically having a go

31 May 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in the Sustainable Hour no 218 are: Claire Ziegler, a member of Geelong Sustainability, the Repair Cafe in Highton and organiser of a World Environment Day event, and Colin Mockett, who is just back from Shanghai and has a

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Green communities a driving force for change

23 November 2016 Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen Commentary

Communities can become the driving force behind the concrete changes that our planet is so badly in need of. A multiplicity of joint initiatives is a good antidote for the feeling of powerlessness and incapacity, including the incapacity that leads

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Uncommon signs of leadership and common sense

15 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters One comment

As it looks from our studio window at 94.7 The Pulse, this Sustainable Hour marks the beginning of a new era in Victoria where a fourth of all Australians from now on stand united with one common goal: a sustainable

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Treating the planet as if it was the only one we’ve got

5 September 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

An hour’s podcast about Enviroweek and youth environmental action, plastic bag free towns, the eight million tonnes of plastic which are entering our oceans every year, and how we transition away from both single use plastic bags and fossil fuels.

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