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Tag: Melbourne

Climate cooling mini summit

26 February 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Recommendation, World affairs

Three-hour online summit in Australia about the need to rapidly cool the planet.

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Emergency Town Hall meeting in Melbourne

1 September 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Recommendation One comment

Agenda and speakerlist for the Climate Emergency Town Hall meeting on 9 September 2023 at the Melbourne Town Hall at 1pm.

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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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How to love your home with natural light and trikes

18 October 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 18 October 2017 is Geelong Gallery’s deputy-director Penny Whitehead. On the phone we talk with Councillor Cathy Oke, chair of the City of Melbourne Environmental Portfolio. At the Humans in Geelong Expo, Tony meets

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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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Climate action speeches at the Sustainable Living Festival 2017

17 February 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters

» John Hewson and David Spratt: Right on climate » Paul Gilding: Great Disruption to great transition » Exploring the critical role local councils can play in reversing global warming RIGHT ON CLIMATE John Hewson on climate change and conservative thinking

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Melbourne festival aims high: “Big impact for big change”

9 February 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

16-minute radio interview with Sustainable Living Festival director Luke Taylor about his ambition for the festival that dares to mingle with “the mother of all issues” – the climate emergency. The interview was broadcasted in The Sustainable Hour on 8

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We learn from each other’s solutions

27 December 2014 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary, Local Geelong matters, Petition

A revolution is happening under our noses: We’re watching a bright green coalition begin to build a future that makes sense in our lifetime. Wind energy is now cheaper than coal. The only thing standing in the way for a

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100% electric car driving school in Geelong

Recent Posts

  • The universal language of our transformation: art
  • From extraction to action: a plan to phase out fossil fuels
  • Growing climate communities with soil, soul, Indigenous wisdom – and banks
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  • A voice to Australia’s silent climate majority
  • Play your part and vote the difference
  • Community Independent calls out ‘bike path stunt’ in Corangamite campaign
  • Climate Café – monthly gatherings in Geelong
  • Turn your fence into a climate action message board
  • Clean up in the morass of clean energy misinformation
  • Earth Day reflections from the heart
  • Democracy reimagined: rebuilding trust
  • Unlocking the green transition in Australia
  • Community Independent Kate Lockhart’s plan for clean energy and climate integrity
  • Tribute to the Earth – on Monday in Geelong
  • Rhythms of reconnection and nuclear resistance
  • A 25c pre-election bribe: don’t fall for it
  • Why the fossil fuel party line still rules Canberra
  • Charged up for climate – and the ballot box
  • Election announcement from Centre for Climate Safety
  • Juggernaut on the rise: Demystifying the bioeconomy 
  • Labor government’s gas expansion madness exposed in Geelong
  • Reenergising democracy: Make your vote count
  • Democracy is not a spectator sport
  • Climate change and democracy: can Citizens’ Assemblies get us out of this crisis?
  • Introducing: green prosperity
  • Raise the flag for life on Earth
  • Community Independent enters Corangamite race for federal election
  • When in doubt, vote the man out
  • The climate crisis is an inequality crisis
  • Dutton wants to ‘dig baby dig’
  • Climate refugees – where will they all go?
  • The Coalition’s nuclear folly

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