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Tag: youth

Geelong Youth Council’s top priority: soft plastic recycling

28 July 2022 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

A soft plastics project has been put forward by Youth Council as an important step in assisting Geelong Council.

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The Sustainable Hour’s presentation to the Gashub Inquiry Committee

21 July 2022 Mik Aidt Commentary

We played this video for the Viva Energy Gas Terminal Inquiry and Advisory Committee on 21 July 2022. Transcript below. → If you agree with us that this gas terminal should not be allowed to go ahead, you can add your name to this petition: www.parliament.vic.gov.au/view-sign-e-petitions/details/12/457 → Also, Greenpeace runs

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Sustained disruption against climate destruction

12 July 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 13 July 2022 is Alex, a Blockade Australia activist. We also listen to Sal Fisher’s and Lauren Dillon’s presentations to the Commission of Enquiry into Viva Energy’s gashub.

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Emissions keep increasing. Does the climate movement need new strategies?

17 June 2022 Guest writer Educational, World affairs

Bill McKibben and Neil King from Deutsche Welle spoke with two of the world’s leading climate activists — Kumi Naidoo of South Africa, the former head of Greenpeace International, and Luisa Neubauer, sometimes called the Greta Thunberg of Germany — about what their movement needs to do now to defuse the onrushing climate

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Youth lifting their voices in Earth Week: We are the future

20 April 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Our guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 408 are Lauren Dillon, Mia Hunter and Montana Morgan from Clonard College in Geelong.

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Climate suffrage: Arrests of three women

29 March 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour no. 405 with Extinction Rebellion spokesperson Jane Morton and MidCoast Council mayor Claire Pontin, along with statements from Greens MP Cate Faehrmann and climatestriker Lauren Dillon.

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Songs for the climate revolution of 2022

19 January 2022 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

We play some of the best new climate songs we aired in The Sustainable Hour during 2021, along with three good old ‘enviro-classics’ and a couple of completely fresh ones.

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Save the planet? Preschoolers are ready!

28 December 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainable Hour no. 395 on 29 December 2021 is agricultural economist Jim Crosthwaite and a group of four and five year olds from Kardinia International College Preschool together with their teachers.

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Sustainable House Day: Replacing blah blah with action

6 October 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

The Sustainable Hour on 6 October 2021 is all about “Sustainable House Day” coming up in Geelong

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Once we knew

21 September 2021 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters

Guests in The Sustainabe Hour no 381 on 22 September 2021 are Dr John Merory and Robert Patterson, two climate activists and grandparents devoting all their time on activism.

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