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Tag: renewable energy

Election candidates discuss climate and renewables

12 November 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

“Climate change is a political choice.” ~ Mike Smyth, Chair of Energy4All, speaking at the Community Energy Conference in the United Kingdom in 2015   If you are going to vote in the Victorian state election, which is just around

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Zero carbon companies gather momentum

5 November 2018 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

488 companies have set their own emissions reduction targets Companies representing around one eighth of total global market capitalisation are now using climate science to define their future direction of travel. Over 130 new corporates have made science-based emissions reduction

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The renewable turnaround time

17 October 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour on 17 October 2018 are Damien Cole – a surfer, campaigner against oil drilling in the Bight and independent South Barwon candidate in the November state election – and Peter Cowling, Vesta’s Country Head for

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Liberating wind of change in Geelong region

22 August 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

An energetic Sustainable Hour where two friends of the wind – Friends of the Earth Melbourne’s Yes2Renewables coordinator Pat Simons and community-owned Hepburn Wind’s community manager Taryn Lane – help us bust a couple of industrial wind farm and power price myths,

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Eco-loop dream a reality: energy saved, waste reduced

8 August 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Be the difference: We have five extraordinary guests and speakers in The Sustainable Hour on 8 August 2018 who each are making a significant difference as innovators, pioneers and leaders in their respective fields – turning eco-loop dreams into reality,

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The things that give us new energy

6 July 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, World affairs

Some big, scary news about the climate emergency is coming at us on a daily basis – but there is tonnes of good news to take notice of as well. Such as when the news ticked in from Montgomery County

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Clean energy rocks

6 June 2018 Mik Aidt Commentary, Educational

The fossil fools in the Australian government can wave their lumps of coal in the parliamentarian chambers as much as they like. It won’t change a thing. Clean energy is moving in and taking over, simply because it is cheaper

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People-powered solutions saving on emissions and money

16 May 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

“Decarbonisation is the great task of our generation and Costa Rica must be one of the first countries in the world to accomplish it, if not the first.” ~ Carlos Alvarado, President of Costa Rica, May 2018 Find out what

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Replacing Big Energy with community solar

15 May 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

The Geelong Community Solar Rebellion Why I am interested in this community solar program Interviews with Jen Fuller, Sheryl Biddle and Lindsey Fuller recorded after Alex Georgiou’s presentation at Geelong Library on 14 May 2018 . . . . .

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Our journey towards free energy

5 May 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational

“Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.” ~ Al Gore, former American Vice-President

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