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Tag: local government

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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Cross pollination between youth, extinction rebels and grey-haired councillors

2 February 2019 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

As we enter 2019, three new global climate emergency movements are making headlines: Extinction Rebellion, which started in England in 2018, the council climate emergency declaration campaign, which started in Australia in 2016 and now counts 40 councils, and the school strike movement, which Greta Thunberg started in Sweden in August 2018.

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A new model that makes the existing model obsolete

24 October 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Richard Buckminster Fuller, American author (1895–1983) In The Sustainable Hour on 24 October 2018, we receive a

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Councils respond to the climate emergency

20 February 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

It was a world first when Darebin City Council adopted a community-wide climate emergency plan. Now, some of Australia’s other 536 councils are getting ready to act, and in the United States, the emergency campaign has already been taken up

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Geelong now has a Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy

1 May 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

The new strategy provides a target for the City of Greater Geelong council: in three years, by 2020, council must halve carbon emissions from its buildings and vehicle fleet. With the release of its new Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy for

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Podcast to council and youth leaders: Meet the climate realists

17 April 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters One comment

“We’ve got to be realists, if you’re going to live with the butterflies you’re going to die with the butterflies.” ~ Barnaby Joyce, The Nationals leader, warning those “that oppose fossil fuels” Welcome to the new reality-concept in Australian politics,

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Thought leadership: How local councils crunch the climate stalemate

11 April 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

While the Australian Coal Circus is getting more and more bizarre, with a federal government claiming that wind turbines increase carbon emissions, and that more coal is a great investment, the first Victorian councils are now sending a clear message

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Exploring the critical role local councils can play in reversing global warming

21 February 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

Local government as a way of getting climate emergency action through Photos by Julian Meehan, audio recordings by The Sustainable Hour Philip Sutton | Trent McCarthy | Mik Aidt | Bryony Edwards | Adrian Whitehead How councils can reverse global warming With State

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