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Tag: mental health

In kindness, respect, understanding and trust

19 November 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 573 is community builder Kate Shelton, founder of Peacemeals.

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Trash talkers and trauma – how small actions combat climate anxiety

7 November 2025 Mik Aidt Educational

On 5 November 2025, The Social Frequency on 94.7 The Pulse featured two environmental guests: Jess Hobbs and Hasini Gunasiri

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Mental health repercussions of climate inaction

1 May 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

Members of the community are encouraged to send a letter about mental health and climate to their local respresentatives in Parliament

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Hope comes from real actions

12 May 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

With Deb Punton from Greensong Ecopsychology, 14-year-old climate activist Aruba Faruque from Bangladesh and Janine Duffy from Koala Clancy Foundation.

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“Inaction on climate change is making people sick…”

25 October 2018 Mik Aidt Recommendation

National Day of Inaction: 30 November 2018 “We are sick of the inaction of government and business on climate change. So we are taking a sick day” ~ Victorian climate activists “Use the National Day of Inaction to start conversations with your friends, family and co-workers. Because the mainstream media

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Warming stripes and climate grief

5 September 2018 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs

We have entered September in the year 2018, and as these warming stripes illustrate, the climate which has been a steady backdrop to life on our planet for thousands of years, is beginning to change. If you are among those who “didn’t see this coming”, you should probably start to

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Lawyer gave his life to protest over climate pollution

19 April 2018 Mik Aidt Commentary

“My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves.” ~ David Buckel, in an e-mail sent shortly before he self-immolated   As a metaphor for the destruction of the planet, David Buckel doused himself in fossil fuel before starting a fire. He hoped his macabre death

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Benefits from understanding the connection between climate and mental health

26 September 2016 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

 [CLIMATIC ROOT TREATMENT]  is a series of blogposts seeking to uncover and understand the deeper roots of society’s problems with taking appropriate action on the climate emergency, and to explore the advantages we could see once the action sets in. “The [fossil fuel] industry thinks we are all fools, so

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Recent Posts

  • CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
  • FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery
  • In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
  • The bats and humans who belong – in Geelong
  • FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment
  • Treaty and protestival – listening for change
  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “Fuck hope. What’s the strategy?”
  • The Climate Safety Plan – ensuring no one is left behind
  • Trash talkers and trauma – how small actions combat climate anxiety
  • Fighting Australia’s carbon bomb – choosing courage over cowardice
  • BE BRUTALLY HONEST. The climate reality we must face
  • From fighting for the climate to serving life on Earth
  • Australia’s transformative, green and ground-up energy revolution
  • GET LOUD – Women at the heart of the green transition
  • PREPARE FOR IMPACT – Australia’s climate risk reality check
  • FORCE OF LIFE: Reinventing our world with a senior uprise, peace of mind, pride, and awe
  • Rethinking the path to change
  • Cost of the fossil con
  • Geelong Connection Café to strengthen community resilience
  • New relations: Language, love and the roots of our climate crisis
  • Get involved with the Climate Rescue Accord
  • Days of sun, sustainability and solutions
  • Tiny homes, huge hearts – resilience and joy in community living
  • The Sustainable Climate Song Contest Hour 2025
  • Green transition, trust and togetherness in Denmark
  • Bold steps, tiny homes and zero waste futures
  • THE CLIMATE REVOLUTION: Revolutionary politics rooted in service to life on Earth
  • A voice to Australia’s silent climate majority
  • Working with nature – not against it
  • Legal revolution for the planet – and a call from the butt hunters
  • World court shakes the system: corporate lawyer sees climate breakthrough
  • International court puts Australia in the hot seat
  • Wake up and fight
  • Time to wake up: How fossil fuel money captured democracy and blocked climate action
  • HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE? Healing the land with plants and water

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