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Tag: Surf Coast

Investments in decarbonising solutions

26 April 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 456 are Mike Bodsworth, who is deputy mayor of Surf Coast Shire, and Blair Palese, managing director of Climate & Capital Media.

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Surfers: End all search and new drilling for fossil fuels

24 August 2022 Guest writer Australian matters, Commentary, Petition

Surfers across Australia are opposing a proposed seismic survey for oil and gas in the Bass Strait, covering an area of pristine ocean larger than Tasmania, because of the danger to marine life.

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Elite sports waking Australia up to the climate crisis

2 February 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no 397 are: Jasper Pittard and Tom Campbell from AFL Players for Climate Action and Belinda Baggs and Linley Hurrell from Surfers for Climate

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Momentum for koalas, surfers, athletes and nature

4 November 2020 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no 339 with Janine Duffy, president of the Koala Clancy Foundation, Belinda Baggs, founder of Surfers for Climate, and Craig Foster, the face of soccer for many years on SBS News.

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Surf Coast Shire Council has declared a climate emergency

29 August 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, Petition, Recommendation

In this video, Surf Coast community campaigner Alex Marshall explains why she is excited about her Council’s decision – and what she believes it will mean for children, youth and adult residents in the coastal municipality. Geelong Councillors ask: “What

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Pivotal point for transformation

28 August 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Surf Coast Shire Council has declared a climate emergency – we talk with Alex Marshall who helped make it happen. Ben Shaw and Mark Randall are guests in the studio.

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Help make our community’s climate action more visible

8 August 2019 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

The Victorian parliament is wanting inputs on how our communities are responding to the existential threat of climate breakdown. They would like to hear about which actions people and organisations in the local communities are taking to reduce emissions in

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The Sustainable Hour no 277

In an emergency we all need to be playing our part

24 July 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

In The Sustainable Hour on 24 July 2019, Mik wears a new hat as a “youtuber” as he launches a new visual direction for the program – and for the Transition Streets movement in Geelong. Our guest in the studio

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The climate emergency declaration hour

3 July 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour’s special one-hour report on the global movement of local governments declaring a climate emergency

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Changing the climate paradigm

29 November 2017 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

When it comes to climate change, “we are suffering a dearth of vision and political will,” says ‘the accidental councillor’ David Bell, an organic farmer who recently was appointed as the new mayor of Surf Coast Shire. “Let’s change the

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