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57 Incredible Presenters! Green Institute Conference 2023
9 Aug 2023You have got to check this out. Seriously. I was the one lucky enough to piece together the program for The City Transformed: urban life at the end of the world as we know it, out of the proposals so many of you sent to us.
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Online Conference Tickets Now Available
6 Aug 2023Many of you have been asking, and we’ve been working behind the scenes to make it happen effectively, so here it finally is. For those of you who can’t attend this month’s conference, The City Transformed: urban life at the end of the world as we know it, in person…
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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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Tedx Talk: Panarchy: A Manifesto For Change
18 Mar 2023What would happen if we truly worked together to solve the ecological, social and political crises we face today? At TEDxCanberra 2022: Impact, environmentalist, community builder, author and musician Tim Hollo shows us what a living democracy in Australia could look like. A highly regarded environmentalist, community builder and musician, Tim Hollo is Executive Director of the Green Institute…
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Submission On Nature Repair Market Bill
15 Mar 2023The Green Institute recently has made a submission into the Government’s proposed Nature Repair Market exposure draft bill. We have called for the government to withdraw it as a terrible idea and instead invest appropriately in protecting and rehabilitating nature, and consider working towards a Rights of Nature framework. Read the full submission here.
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A New Common Sense
20 Sep 2023It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime. Living Democracy presents us with a powerful framework to think about where we have come from, where we want to go, and how to get there. Once we can see and believe, change can happen quite quickly. [...] Read More... The post A New...
Read MoreChanging what’s possible, living democracy
8 Sep 2023Tim Hollo and Anthony James of the RegenNarration podcast explore in conversation the power of community to shape politics, and the stories that nurture Living Democracy. [...] Read More... The post Changing what’s possible, living democracy appeared first on Green Agenda.
Read MoreWe mustn’t shy away from the reality of our plight
24 Aug 2023I like the way Tim Hollo claims that it’s the end of the world as we know it, “and I feel fine.” I try to keep up with the latest from adventurous Greens, so when I heard about Tim's book I thought I’ll have to read that, immediately ordering a copy online. [...] Read More... The...
Read MoreThe multitudes at the margins
31 Jul 2023When I read Living Democracy and the uplifting and hopeful possibilities contained in Barcelona en Comú and the general assemblies in Rojava, I’m reminded that we are currently so far away from this it’s hard to see the path there. [...] Read More... The post The multitudes at the...
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Green Institute Conference 2023
18/19 August, 2023Meanjin / Brisbane and online, Aug 18/19, Griffith University, South Bank Green Institute Conference 2023Meanjin / Brisbane and onlineFriday 18 August & Saturday 19Griffith University, South Bank If you are tuning in online and have registered yet haven’t received your Zoom link please text Elissa on 0418 786 986 with your email address…
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Nature | Market: how Labor is sacrificing the environment to corporate profits and what you can do
8pm, 31 May 2023If 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! Fresh from approving her first coal mine, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is pushing the Labor government’s first major environmental legislation through the parliament. And it’s…
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Webinar: Living Towards Transformation – Discussing Green Agenda 2023/1
8pm AEDT, 13 April 2023If 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! To speak of change today conjures up images of high-tech gadgetry and low carbon infrastructures pulled together towards energy transitions. Change might be the latest…
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