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Ecological Ethics For The End Of The World As We Know It
2 Oct 2024Speech delivered by Tim Hollo on 24 September to Conversation at the Crossroads series “Ethics in a turbulent world”. Good evening everyone, and thanks so much, Joseph, for the kind invitation to speak with you tonight as part of this series. The theme of Ethics in a Turbulent Time,…
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Protection without violence – don’t miss this
12 Sep 2024They say truth is the first casualty of war. But sexual violence follows in its dust. And they so often travel together. In South Sudan, amidst civil war, women walking to collect water and firewood have been brutally attacked at horrific rates – a dreadful tally often left unrecognised in…
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Listening to Living Democracy: Audio Book
1 Dec 2023These are dark times. Could they be the darkest before the dawn? Can we turn this juggernaught around and cultivate an ecological, living democracy? You can now listen to Tim Hollo reading his book, Living Democracy, to find inspiration, ideas, and encouragement to do your own thinking. LISTEN FOR FREE…
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Seeding, Feeding and Leading Transformative Greens Politics: Green Institute Annual Report 2022/23
17 Nov 2023With our strongest ever focus on engaging and working with Greens members and the wider movement, 2022/23 was an exciting and highly successful year for the Green Institute. Despite tiny resources, with only 1½ FTE staff, we delivered a massive program of workshops and webinars, publications and podcasts, conferences and writers’ festivals, cultivating deep…
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Nature | Market: Why Labor’s market will do nothing for nature
31 May 2023How much is a koala’s life worth? What’s the cash value of preventing the extinction of the orange bellied parrot? If these are the questions you’re asking, can you expect anything other than a devastatingly, destructively wrong answer? Labor’s Nature Repair Market Bill, a redraft and repackaging of the ecocidal Morrison government’s proposal to establish…
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Esperance’s struggle: Confronting racism in rural Australia
5 Aug 2024On a cold wintry evening in June, a group of people, mostly “wadjelas”, whitefellas like me, have gathered within a small, corrugated iron clad building to show support for an Aboriginal community that is under siege. I assume that those attending are, as I am, disappointed by recent...
Read MoreFacilitating change: consensus, collaboration and participatory politics
29 Jun 2024We need to make our democracy work for us. We need to change it so that it is more participatory. Former Green Senator Janet Rice reflects on her decade bringing facilitation and consensus-building skills to the politics of parliament. [...] Read More... from Facilitating change:...
Read MoreNo regrets
26 Jun 2024Brad Homewood and Violet CoCo are climate activists and organisers with Extinction Rebellion. They recently served two months in prison for blocking the West Gate Bridge in Naarm/Melbourne to sound the alarm on the climate emergency. [...] Read More... from No regrets The post No regrets...
Read MoreRenewable energy: Are optimistic scenarios feasible?
21 Jun 2024Terry Leahy critically examines Mark Diesendorf and Rod Taylor's The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation, focusing on their arguments for a renewable energy transition and degrowth. Acknowledging the authors' optimism about renewables, Leahy challenges notions of an easy green transition,...
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Webinar #5: Defending nonviolent protest from criminalisation, suppression and lies
Thursday 5 December, 8pm AEDTWebinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Thursday 5 December 2024 Nonviolent protest is central to democratic rights and change-making. As we have been exploring through The Missing Peace, we know it works to create real, lasting, significant change, even in the direst circumstances. One of the reasons we know nonviolent protest works is because those…
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Webinar #4: Decolonising and nonviolence: relationality, entanglement and complexity
8pm AEST, Wednesday 6 NovemberWebinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Wednesday 6 November 2024 First Nations understandings of understandings of peace and security, violence and nonviolence, relationality and entanglement, have so much to teach us as we grapple with The Missing Peace. The Green Institute is immensely privileged to bring you this conversation through which we will explore…
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Webinar #3: Nonviolence, consensus, and politics coming together across difference
8pm AEST, Wednesday 2 October 2024Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Nonviolence is about a willingness to appreciate our coexistence, to respect our mutuality, our entanglement, and our…
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