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Tag: politics

To score or not to score

12 October 2020 Mik Aidt Recommendation One comment

It is as much of a taboo as if we were talking about sex: Who will you be voting for in the election? Some people keep it a secret, and there can be good reasons for that, in particular when

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The collective mindset – a humble conversation with the CEO of Geelong Region Alliance G21

16 April 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In this Bonus Sustainable Hour edition, we give you a glimpse of how G21 CEO Elaine Carbines’ environmental journey started, where she has been, and where she is headed.

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Time for citizens to act

18 October 2019 Mik Aidt Educational, Recommendation

“Time for politicians to act”, said the scientists three decades years ago. But politicians didn’t think it was time. As this blogpost documents, through more than half a century, we – humanity, but in particular: our elected leaders and business

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To address the emergency we must fix our democracy

16 October 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Hour on 16 October 2019 is Mike Lawrence, and we talk with Susanna Bevilacqua about the Ethical Enterprise Conference

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Tremors from the Australian youthquake

22 May 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in the The Sustainable Hour’s climatesafety-bunker on 22 April 2019 are 17-year-old school striker Oscar Pearce, student and school captain at Albert Park College, and our treasured ‘people-reporter’ Lene Foghsgaard who stops by the headquarters to greet our listeners

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Cooperate as never before to radically reorganise

19 May 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Commentary One comment

Thoughts, reflections and observations on Saturday’s – from a climate activists’ perspective shocking and sad – election result in Australia, where once again a hollow promise of “a strong economy” and the right to pollute our common atmosphere and destroy

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#ClimateStrike: Unprecedented youth mobilisation around the world

9 May 2019 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

Friday 3 May 2019 was a Climate Election Day of Action in 75 locations across Australia, where thousands of students left their schools in order to pay their local federal politicians a visit instead, as a contribution to the #climateelection

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The Australian #ClimateElection

8 May 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational One comment

“If you’ve been keeping your powder dry, waiting for the moment when the climate fight really needed you–right about now would be that moment.”

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School-strikers inspire governments to declare a climate emergency

2 May 2019 Mik Aidt World affairs

On 1 May 2019, the British Labour party moved a non-binding motion in the House of Commons to declare ‘an environment and climate emergency’, which was passed by members of the Parliament across the floor.

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Australia’s Labor party still immersed in gas and coal

1 May 2019 Mik Aidt Commentary

The problem with Labor’s support for climate action is that it is either fake, hollow or misguided. We need to call out those politicians who think they can sign a climate emergency declaration and then spruik fossil fuels. Peter Khalil,

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