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Tag: local government

Deepening democracy

24 June 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Deepening democracy: Our guests in ‘The Tunnel’ today are Anna Langford from Friends of the Earth Melbourne and Sonia Randhawa from the Sortition Foundation and Coalition of Everyone.

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Gilbert Rochecouste: Glocal roadmap to a better future

30 April 2020 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs

Gilbert Rochecouste, the Melbourne-based agent of change who founded the world-renowned placemaking company Village Well, joins Mik in The Tunnel for a talk about what’s happening and where we need to go from here

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Shortcomings of Geelong Council’s proposed Sustainability Framework

29 April 2020 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation One comment

Your help is needed: Please make a submission to the City of Greater Geelong’s proposed Sustainability Framework The City of Greater Geelong (CoGG) has created a Sustainability Framework intended to guide Council actions and decisions on sustainability, climate change and

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Call for an ambitious climate action plan in Geelong

28 April 2020 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

Your help is needed: You still have the opporunity to make your submission to the City of Greater Geelong’s proposed Sustainability Framework and Action Plan The City of Greater Geelong (CoGG) has created a Sustainability Framework intended to guide Council

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Geelong: Support proposed climate emergency declaration this Tuesday

22 September 2019 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

Support Councillor Sarah Mansfield’s motion to declare a climate emergency for Geelong by being present at Council’s meeting on Tuesday at Geelong City Hall. Councillor Sarah Mansfield’s proposed climate emergency declaration motion can be seen on page 129 in the

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This is a job for humanity – of which you and we all happen to be a part

14 September 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary

MESSAGE TO COUNCILLORS: Leadership, responsibility, integrity The three key words in the discussion about whether or not Geelong Council should declare a climate emergency are: leadership, responsibility and integrity. Former Liberal leader Dr John Hewson put it this way –

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Can we hand-on-our-heart say that we are doing enough?

17 July 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Here’s that up-to-date report from the climate emergency frontier in Victoria and the rest of the world, which your so-called professional and public media – sleepwalking on their payroll – once again completely failed to deliver to you. With strong

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The climate emergency declaration hour

3 July 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour’s special one-hour report on the global movement of local governments declaring a climate emergency

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Two councillors’ and a teenager’s recipe for change

13 February 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 13 Februay 2019 are two first-time councillors of the Greater Geelong City Council: Cr Sarah Mansfield, Chair of the Environment and Sustainability Portfolio, and Cr Stephanie Asher, Chair of the Planning Portfolio.

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The BBQ-moment for the climate emergency

6 February 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

We talk about the climate emergency’s BBQ-moment in The Sustainable Hour on 6 February 2018: a summer where the climate emergency for the first time is no longer a taboo to talk about at social gatherings

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