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Australian cowardice at the highest level

15 January 2026 Mik Aidt Commentary

Open letter to the entitled political class in Australia, who have perfected the art of delay, deflection and quiet surrender.

Open blogpost

Mental health repercussions of climate inaction

1 May 2024 Mik Aidt Commentary

Members of the community are encouraged to send a letter about mental health and climate to their local respresentatives in Parliament

Open blogpost

A safe climate is a human right

17 April 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 499 are former corporate lawyer Robert Hinkley and filmmaker Michael Shaw. We also play two excerpts of talks by professor and author Jem Bendell.

Open blogpost

Geelong’s community get together around climate action

17 April 2024 Mik Aidt Educational

Community meeting about political climate action on 9 May 2024 at the Geelong West Town Hall.

Open blogpost

Think climate independent

27 March 2024 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 496 are Robert Patterson from Letition.org, who is organising a community climate meeting at Geelong West Town Hall on 9 May 2024, and Jeanne Nel from CoolGeelong.

Open blogpost

Lighthouses and climate strikers shine on our future

8 November 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour on 8 November 2023 are Shaun Deverson from Lighthouse Futures and climate school strikers Joey Thompson and Myles Wilkinson.

Open blogpost

What the heck, Plibersek?

6 October 2023 Guest writer Recommendation

“We voted for climate action. Not new coal and gas mines.” Help keep this billboard up outside Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s office.

Open blogpost

Rising up from the grassy plains

20 September 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 476 are Cameron Steele and Lachie Chomley from the North West Alliance. We also listen to speeches by school striker Charlotte Gollace and author Mark Diesendorf.

Open blogpost

Calls on young women to stand up and be heard

16 August 2023 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour no. 472 is Julie Lyford, who is chair of Womens’ Environmental Leadership Australia, WELA, and of Groundswell Gloucester.

Open blogpost

Greta Thunberg: The truth about the climate crisis

3 November 2022 Mik Aidt Educational, World affairs

Greta Thunberg spoke at the Royal Festival Hall in London at ‘The Climate Event’ on 31 October 2022 – an event which was organised by Southbank Centre in partnership with Penguin. The video recording of the event was only made available on Youtube until the end of November 2022, unfortunately.

Open blogpost

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Recent Posts

  • Staying cool, staying safe: what electrifying our homes really means
  • Heat, flight and presence – an interview about Bats and Being
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  • Australian cowardice at the highest level
  • Meaning that will move us
  • When survival meets policy failure
  • These climate disasters are not an accident
  • Denial meets reality: Victoria enters a state of climate disaster
  • Paid misinformation, global inequality and permaculture progress in Africa
  • Geelong Advertiser: Paid misinformation on climate
  • A YEAR IN SONG: The soundtrack of The Sustainable Hour 2025
  • CONSEQUENCE TIMES: Communities taking back their power
  • FORCE OF LIFE: From collapse to connection – organising the periphery
  • In kindness, respect, understanding and trust
  • The bats and humans who belong – in Geelong
  • FORCE OF LIFE: The art of enlivenment
  • Treaty and protestival – listening for change
  • Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “Fuck hope. What’s the strategy?”
  • The Climate Safety Plan – ensuring no one is left behind
  • Trash talkers and trauma – how small actions combat climate anxiety
  • Fighting Australia’s carbon bomb – choosing courage over cowardice
  • BE BRUTALLY HONEST. The climate reality we must face
  • From fighting for the climate to serving life on Earth
  • Australia’s transformative, green and ground-up energy revolution
  • GET LOUD – Women at the heart of the green transition
  • PREPARE FOR IMPACT – Australia’s climate risk reality check
  • FORCE OF LIFE: Reinventing our world with a senior uprise, peace of mind, pride, and awe
  • Rethinking the path to change
  • Cost of the fossil con
  • Geelong Connection Café to strengthen community resilience
  • New relations: Language, love and the roots of our climate crisis
  • Get involved with the Climate Rescue Accord
  • Days of sun, sustainability and solutions
  • Tiny homes, huge hearts – resilience and joy in community living
  • The Sustainable Climate Song Contest Hour 2025

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