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Tag: solar

Renters going solar and a regenerative gruffalo

13 December 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour on 13 December 2017, we talk about Tony’s trip last week to the front line in the battle against the Adani coal mine in Queensland. Tony interviewed 71-year-old Audrey Cooke about why she locked herself on

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Renewables now cheapest of all – and at times even utterly free

4 November 2017 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, World affairs

We are in a dead-serious race against time when it comes to stopping our pollution of the atmosphere. Equally important is to share and spread the knowledge about how fast things are actually progressing in the right direction towards a

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The renewable energy revolution is happening

13 October 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

Guest in The Sustainable Studio on 11 October 2017 is Dan Cowdell from Geelong Sustainability. He is the project coordinator of Geelong’s first investor-financed community energy project. We also talk with Tom Hunt who is member of Citizens’ Climate Lobby,

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How South Geelong Primary School became a local solar beacon

19 November 2016 Mik Aidt Educational, Local Geelong matters

“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy.” ~ Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847–1931) Once or twice a month, I have been getting these emails and phone calls from schools in the region, asking me, “How did you

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The Solar Buskers: clear and right

24 October 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary

Check out Alex’s and Matt’s new solar-rap! It’s a ‘busker song’ to raise money to get solar panels up on their school’s roof to have the sun finance new sustainability education programs at the school in the next 20 years.

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Sun-powered: It is happening on the roof tops

24 August 2015 Mik Aidt Educational, Local Geelong matters

Every week in Australia, 3,000 new roof top solar systems are switched on. 1.4 million Australian homes are sun-powered by now, and they are increasingly being helped by cheaper solar batteries to store the energy locally, and Internet-based technology to

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The Green Teams’ solar dream: New energy in the school

5 April 2015 Mik Aidt Educational, Local Geelong matters

An hour around The People’s Solar and ‘green teams’ from two schools in Geelong. Guests in the studio: • Alex Houlston, Energy for the People • Aaron Lewtas, Surf Coast Energy Group • Alex Aidt, 9 years, member of the

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The rise of community energy

24 July 2014 Mik Aidt Educational

People in Geelong have embraced solar power on their rooftops. The next step is to take that success and enthusiasm to move into big community renewable projects that create local manufacturing jobs. Meet someone who is doing just that: the

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The sprouting of community-owned solar plants

27 March 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

While over a million Australian house-owners have placed solar panels on their roof, only very few community-owned renewable energy projects have been launched, for instance where citizens buy a share in a wind farm or a larger solar power plant.

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What is it with solar?

6 March 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

The sky over Geelong is covered with dark clouds, but in the radio studio at 94.7 The Pulse during this hour it is going to be sunny – talking solar power, megawatts and feed-in tarifs up and down the walls.

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