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Tag: Our Future

Hemp-based road to plastic freedom

28 March 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 28 March 2018 are Bernadette Uzelac, Chief Executive Officer, Geelong Chamber of Commerce, and Charles Kovess, Marketing Director, Textile and Composite Industries. They describe their vision of how Geelong could reinvent itself as a

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Ready to recycle, #BanTheBag and #StopAdani

12 November 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

With the National Recycling Week coming up on 13 November, we talk about waste and recycling in The Sustainable Hour on 8 November 2017. Our guest in the studio is education officer Darby Munro from City of Greater Geelong Waste

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Becoming indigenous to place

7 September 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 6 September 2017 is Mark Dekker, who is an urban planner, organic farmer, youth outreach worker and Transition Street mobiliser. We also play a short excerpt from a speech held by the Victorian

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Launch of Geelong’s new 30-year vision

4 September 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters 2 comments

On 30 August 2017, ministers and members of the Victorian parliament gathered together with the Geelong administrators at the city hall for the launch of the ‘Clever and Creative Future’ vision for Geelong. Finally, after 18 months of work and

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The ethical farmer: Respecting the cowness of the cow

1 September 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 30 August 2017 are Chris Balazs, Suzette Jackson and Mark Dekker – for an interesting, engaging and hygge-spirited hour about sustainable and ethical farming, shopping and living. Listen to The Sustainable Hour no. 184

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Now spreadable: Geelong’s clever and creative future vision

27 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour on 26 July 2017, Geelong’s Chief Administrator Dr Kathy Alexander and Dr Simone Boer, who is Manager of Strategy and Program Delivery in City of Greater Geelong, talk about the new 30-year vision for Geelong. Erin

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It’s about Our Future

26 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Local Geelong matters

The ‘Our Future’ vision for Geelong is a challenge of a lifetime – but we can do it. Geelong is about to find out whether politics and votes can be determined not by the usual short-term election promises which everyone

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Community in the offing to stop Adani

14 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Stephen Higgs, former principal of Ballarat Grammar, explains why he and the newly formed community alliance #StopAdani Geelong has set a goal to stop the construction of Adani’s $16 billion dollar coal mine in Queensland. But this is not just

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Standing your ground for the bigger picture

3 June 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in the sustainable studio is Petra Goerschel, member of Geelong Sustainability’s committee, for a talk about coal mines, values, our future, and much more. On the way through the hour, we listen to a #StopAdani speech by Stephen

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Key to our future: citizen-led education, life-long learning

27 May 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 24 May 2017 is Dr Simone Boer, manager of strategy and program delivery of ‘Our Future’, the new 30-year vision for Geelong city and region which links life-long learning and education with industry and

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