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Tag: Victoria

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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Reducing Victorias Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Submission to the Victorian government: Go early, go hard

15 July 2019 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, Recommendation

The following is Centre for Climate Safety’s submission to the Victorian Government, which has called for comments from the public on the targets it will soon set in regard to how fast or how slowly it should aim to reduce

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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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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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First community-owned renewable energy plant in Geelong

19 July 2018 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

The launch event of a 520 solar system at MACS – Multicultural Aged Care Services in West Geelong – in July 2018 marked the completion of a four-year dream to create a large-scale solar project in Geelong. Listen to an excerpt

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Beyond our water pipes

11 July 2018 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Future water security lay outside the usual water delivery infrastructure. In The Sustainable Hour on 11 July 2018, our guest is the Victorian Minister for Water and Police, the Hon Lisa Neville MP, who expands our vision on water in

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The Victorian government’s climate pollution targets

30 April 2018 Mik Aidt Educational, Recommendation

“79 per cent of Victorians would be proud to live in a state that is leading the way on climate change.” ~ Findings of a survey by Sustainability Victoria who in 2016 commissioned Wallis Market and Social Reseach to interview

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Uncommon signs of leadership and common sense

15 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters One comment

As it looks from our studio window at 94.7 The Pulse, this Sustainable Hour marks the beginning of a new era in Victoria where a fourth of all Australians from now on stand united with one common goal: a sustainable

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Significant turn on Victoria’s path towards clean energy and climate safety

10 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Petition

A rare phenomena in politics: Premier Daniel Andrews pays respect to the future generations, not just with a kiss for the photographer, but with a long-term plan for how Victoria will become a carbon-free society during the next three decades.

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City looks its future in the eye – on Threatened Species Day

8 September 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Simone Boer and Tim Hellsten from City of Greater Geelong explain about the exciting ‘Our Future’ project which the city council launched on 1 September 2016 with an aim to create a conversation with at least 25,000 of the city’s

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