WHAT THIS CENTRE CAMPAIGNS FOR
Climate safety is a shared responsibility.
Our mission is to share solutions that make the climate safer and our communities more liveable.
Climate safety is a human right.
At its core, humanity’s carbon emissions story is a story of exploitation, domination, selfishness and greed. To solve the climate crisis requires more than ‘net zero’ strategies. We need to talk about the root causes which means we also need to deal with problems such as that our parliaments have been captured by vested interests, while inequality in society keeps rising.
Communication has been our cebtre’s main focus since it was founded in 2012. However, over the years we have been doing so much more than simply being a centre for climate communication.
We have organised rallies and events, we have started local action groups, and we have assisted numerous climate-focused organisations and climate-champions both in Australia and around the world.
In the meantime, we have produced more than 600 hours of podcasts and radio shows, more than 1,100 articles and in-depth reports on this website, over 8,000 images, photos and illustrations, and over 60 songs.
In 2025-2026 the website has been having an average of 40,000 unique visitors per month, 80,000 visits per month, 200,000 pages viewed per month, 350,000 hits per month, and around 100GB of data transferred to our readers and listeners per month.
The three all-time most viewed pages since 2012 have been:
What we all can do, Vision: A popular movement for climate safety and Quotes
How do people find us?
The top referring social media site is Facebook. Most visitors arrive via Google Search from Australia. The United States, China, United Kingdom and Denmark are not far behind.
Page statistics: Most visited pages
| Page title | Views 2017-2022 |
|---|---|
| What we all can do | |
| Quotes | |
| Vision: A popular movement for climate safety | |
| Front page | |
| The Sustainable Hour podcast | |
| Bookmarks | |
| Denial and disinformation | |
| Why you should be concerned about ‘fracking’ | |
| Concerned musicians communicate climate problems |
Carbon awareness
This website was initially launched by Mik Aidt in January 2013 as a ‘Carbon Awareness Hub’ – explained at the time as
“…an open space allowing participants and readers to explore, compile, share and exchange knowledge about how best to deal with the climate change problems caused by our collective emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses.”
Since then we have been on an exciting journey to discover and help develop the best and most efficient solutions to the problems in order to avoid the threats of a total ‘climatepocalypse’ – the meltdown of our world as we know it, which science warns us is about to happen unless we take immediate action and slash our emissions down to zero – and below zero – over the next few decades.
Around Centre for Climate Safety a range of networks initiatives soon evolved, such as the Climate Emergency Declaration mobilisation and petition campaign, Citizens for Climate Safety, Parents for Climate Safety, Bloggers for Climate Safety, Artists for Climate Safety, the Fossil Fuel Free Future network, and more.
These are not organisations, and they do not wish to become organisations, associations or incorporated NGOs. They are deliberately very open, flexible and loosely structured networks of individuals who excel in ‘climate campaign-hopping’, which means: supporting and collaborating with a variety of organisations – such as Service to Life, Beyond Billionaires, Swift Tiny Homes, Friends of the Earth, Lock the Gate Alliance, GetUp, 350.org, Victorian Climate Action Network, Corangamite Climate Alliance, Climate Emergency Network, Environment Victoria, Geelong Sustainability, Surf Coast Energy Group, Surf Coast Air Action, Transition East Geelong, Transition South Barwon, Ecosia, and many more – with their specific campaigns and petitions, sometimes protesting against the fossil fuel madness, at other times promoting sustainability, renewables and clean energy, and sometimes both all at the same time.
The centre hosts and runs various climate action websites. Among others, we built the Frack Free Geelong home page, www.frackfreegeelong.org (now archived), www.massmailoutforclimate.org, and the centre has published over 600 hours of podcasts of The Sustainable Hour which is also aired on FM via the local community radio station 94.7 The Pulse.
in July 2026, the website contained 30.54 GB of data in 42,344 files. This figure keeps growing.
The website functions as an archive for articles, blogposts and podcasts. It also provides an online news source for various local climate activist groups and shared social media pages which we have launched or help updating, such as:
Facebook pages:
» www.facebook.com/ClimateSafety
» www.facebook.com/FossilFuelFreeFuture
» www.facebook.com/TheSustainableHour
» www.facebook.com/CleantechGeelong
» www.facebook.com/GasFreeGeelong
» www.facebook.com/FrackFreeBellarine
» www.facebook.com/FrackFreeSurfCoast
» www.facebook.com/FrackFreeGrovedale
Scoop.it pages (no longer maintained):
» Take action on climate change: www.scoop.it/t/climate-change-action
» Renewables and green hopes: www.scoop.it/t/renewables-and-hope
» Media and climate change: www.scoop.it/t/climate-change-and-the-media
» Arts and climate change: www.scoop.it/t/climate-change-and-the-arts
» Climate change news: www.scoop.it/t/climate-change
In Danish language we also run:
» www.klimaforandring.info – about climate and media
» www.facebook.com/klimaforandring
History and background
This website, which today has become a well-known and widely quoted climate news provider and climate action advocacy agency, pushing for the transition to 100 per cent renewable energy, has primarily been created by journalist Mik Aidt.
On 31 December 2012, Mik made a personal pledge to invest as much time as possible in searching and sorting information about climate change and carbon-reduction with the aim to try if he could figure out whether it makes any sense at all for a single individual to begin taking action on these enormous global problems.
Many people are saying: “This issue is simply too big – there is nothing I can do about this that will have any effect whatsoever – so why bother!” And then they try to forget about it entirely and get on with their lives.
As this website demonstrates, there is no reason it should be that way. It is incorrect that an individuals’ action has no significance, because at a global level we are already close to reaching ‘critical mass’ as far as the numbers are concerned. Millions of individuals have started to take action on climate change at a personal level. Businesses and local groups as well. It is a very fast growing global movement.
Coordination
The collection of private logbook notes and bookmarks on this website – “thoughts in progress” – are being picked up during conferences, travels and surfing on the web. Over time, these ideas and the interaction with other climate bloggers, climate activists and citizens with like-minded concerns over the climate emergency have expanded the activities to numerous platforms on social media, such as Substack, Facebook, Instagram, Blue Sky, Linkedin, and more, all of which have numerous contributors. (See links on the bottom of each page.)
In 2013, the centre’s slogan was: “Everything begins with awareness, and after that, what is most needed is coordination.” This strategy hasn’t changed much. Today, we focus more on creating awareness of solutions to the energy crisis and creating local connections and community resilience against extreme weather events than on the science and emissions issues in themselves, because this is what we need to create lasting societal change: motivation and awareness at the individual level.
→ Contact Centre for Climate Safety
Information about Centre for Climate Safety’s founder
Mik Aidt is a ‘climate crusader’ with a creative’s soul – part journalist, part campaigner, part podcast poet and musician. Whether he is producing sharp political articles, composing regenerative songs, or dreaming up humour-infused e-learning courses, he blends urgency with artistry, facts with fire. Based in Australia but thinking globally, he turns citizen action into storytelling, spreadsheets into strategy, and password leaks into punchlines. Mik believes the green transition is a movement of hearts and minds, and he is at the centre of it, microphone in hand.
Born in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1962, Mik lived in Denmark most of his life. He spent almost four years in Africa, and has visited 60 countries around the planet. In 2013, he settled in Australia with his family. He is a father of three children – Alex, Matt and Eva.
In 2012, Mik’s New Year’s resolution was that he would make a conscious move from seeing himself as a citizen of a country and a city to becoming a ‘citizen of the planet’, and as such, to focus on the well-being of humanity, inspired by the words of R. K. Pachauri,“We are all citizens of Planet Earth, and there is no other place we can go.”
A newcomer in the already over-grown jungle of green business and sustainability reporting, which flows, or rather overflows, with information, he soon realised that information overload is actually in itself a serious problem for the climate action campaigning.
In his blog, he allowed himself to ask all the beginners’ questions.
“The renewable energy technology is in place, and millions of people are motivated to make those changes we need to make. So what exactly is it that is holding us back? Why aren’t any of my friends concerned about climate change and about reducing their carbon emissions?”
→ Mik Aidt’s blog posts on this website
Soluktion-seeking
A moment of truth had woken Mik Aidt up like a slap in the face. It was an interview he watched on Danish tv where the Danish minister of climate and environment was being truthful about how bad the climate problem looks after returning home from a result-less United Nations climate summit in Doha in December 2012, and after the World Bank had just published a report stating that the Earth is heading for a 4°C warmer world before 2060. Not in some distant future, but before Mik’s own children would reach his age.
Until humanity has actually fixed this problem with the carbon emissions, it is crucial not only to keep asking questions, but to become part of the solution rather than being part of the problem. So: where are the solutions? What can we do to avoid the worst of the sea-rise, ice-melting and the agricultural catastrophes? How can we make better use of the connectivity of the Internet to push forward that change we need to see?
12 years later, in 2025, inspired by the British sustainability consultant Joseph Gelfer, Mik changed his campaign direction from primarily talking about climate to instead talking about life – the being “at service to life on Earth”.
→ More about Mik Aidt’s booklet ‘The Solution’ on: www.amazon.com
Mik Aidt makes a living as a communicator and a web editor for various organisations, such as culturefutures.org which is an international organisation that works with sustainability within the cultural sector on a global scale. Together with Jonathan Wright, he runs Geelong Media, which primarily produces home pages, videos, social media campaigns and e-learning courses for green organisations.
In 2012, he spent time on focusing on what Danes and Indians could learn from each other when it could to green thinking, and green technology, and whether we could inspire some co-creation between the two people, in particular focusing on the younger generations. As such, indiadenmark.in focuses on co-creative projects among Danes and Indians with a focus particularly on sustainability and social responsibility.
For many years, Mik ran a blog about visions for Denmark and ‘The Danish Dream’ – in Danish language – and he has edited, written for and managed a number of international websites, most notably artsfreedom.org about artistic freedom of expression, and freemuse.org about music censorship, both of them leading in their field at a global level.
Momentum for change?
“We can in fact change. Change for good. It involves all our innovative energy…”
~ Quote from a video produced by the UNFCCC secretariat, The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, also known as the Climate Change Secretariat
When a UN video had only been viewed around 5,000 times since 2011, it would seem obvious that to actually create such a “momentum of change” which the video talked about, and which humanity is in dire need of, isn’t easy – not even when you are the United Nations. (They since removed that video.)
In June 2015, Pope Francis published his encyclical letter Laudato Si’ which in strong words told humanity to change its ways and stop polluting the air. Again, even if you are head of over one billion Catholics, it seemed not many of his followers were ready to implement that change.
In October 2018, the United Nations’ Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, published their landmark Special Report, which stated that the climate emergency “requires rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” In the bigger scheme of things, the call was being ignored.
So… how do we get started to create that ‘momentum for change’ – the massive amount of both small individual changes and major systemic changes which is required to keep us safe?
At Centre for Climate Safety, we do have some ideas. And we’d also like to hear about yours. We’d love it if you would comment on the most recent of the articles and blogposts on this website, or on our social media pages.
Welcome to our world of advocacy for climate safety, www.climatesafety.info
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