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Tag: fossil fuel subsidies

Be the demand and the shift will follow

28 May 2025 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no. 550 is a call to action – not with banners, but with choices.

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Cultivating Earth from soil to soul: Regenerative farming meets deep ecology

19 June 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 508 are Celia Leverton from Regen Agriculture Network Tasmania, and John Seed – a long time rainforest activist and deep ecology advocate.

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Beyond bonkers

13 September 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 475 are Geelong Councillor Sarah Hathway, Lisa Depeller from OCEAN, and Belinda Haydon and Helen Lester from Beyond Gas Network

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Doctor: People are being sacrificed for profits

6 September 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 474 are Dr Louise Woodward, a paedetrician from Darwin in the Northern Territory, and podcast producer Mike DiGirolamo from the environmental science and conservation news provider Mongabay.

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Beetaloo must be the line in the sand for Australia

31 August 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Recommendation

Dr Louise Woodward’s call for help: “Why are the Northern Territory people being sacrificed for the sake of fossil fuel company profits?”

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Calls to unify against the fossil fuel industry

5 October 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 432 are Yaraan Couzens Bundle, who campaigns against the gas industry’s seismic blasting in the ocean, and Esteban Servat and Louise Wagner, both from Debt for Climate.

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Emergence of Gas Free Geelong

28 August 2020 Gas Free Geelong Local Geelong matters

In a Zoom-meeting on 28 August 2020, we launched a new group called Gas Free Geelong to inspire and assist our local business and resident community with transitioning away from gas – and to advocate for the cancellation of any

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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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Censored by Facebook for calling climate criminals out

25 October 2018 Mik Aidt Commentary, World affairs

Allow my to have a rant. I don’t appreciate being censored. It hasn’t often happen – the only two times I recall were when I wrote something about the – in my view unpleasantly close – financial relationship between an association of patients

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Australia needs an emergency declaration but solutions are there

29 April 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, World affairs

As levels of global temperatures, greenhouse gas pollution, the sea and governmental hypocrisy all keep rising, we too must now rise to challenge our failing leaders. Welcome to an hour’s podcast about climate frontlines, blatant hypocrisy of Environment Minister Greg

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