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Tag: psychology

Coining the phrase of climate change

10 July 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“Aren’t we already we at the point of no return with making our planet uninhabitable?” Narrative navigation: Why does it have to be a choice between either Heaven, Hell or Hoax when politicians and climate action campaigners talk about the

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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.

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How we respond to the spiraling climate emergency

6 May 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, World affairs

An hour on 94.7 The Pulse about climate emergency, the Break Free campaign, divestment, civil disobedience …and knitting. Guests in the studio: • Jesse Nicolle Kalic and Darcy Poulton, students who were ‘locked on’ at a recent divestment campaign at

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Climate morals, psychology and engagement

1 November 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

What does climate change do to us in psychological terms? We have a social psychology researcher, Dr Andrea Bunting, with us in the 49th Sustainable Hour. Andrea Bunting is saying: Let’s speak about climate change! So we will – and

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Climate ignorance responsible for teenage despair

13 June 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, World affairs

Climate change can be linked to increase in Australia’s suicide rates, a study shows. In this the 29th edition of The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we talk about what a city’s councillors could and should be doing in

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Climate campaign leaders: you must talk together now

13 June 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary

This is a call to all climate campaign leaders: you guys need to talk together. Make a climate campaign alliance or just a simple internal network of some sort. Open up a communication channel between yourselves. Or at least figure

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Call for more cyclists in the streets

7 June 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, Local Geelong matters One comment

We should cycle for better health, for faster and cheaper commuting, for less noise and pollution of the air, and to support our city in its ambition to become a more liveable and sustainable place. Authorities need to lower speed

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Using fear to create rapid change?

16 February 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary

Fear is stronger than optimism in creating rapid social change, argued three debaters at ‘The Great Debate’ at the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne on 15 February 2013. We are more than six billion people on the planet. In a

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