Democracy

Replenishing The Oily Rag - Image is of an oily paint brush rag and paint brush.

Replenishing The Oily Rag

So far this year, amidst the challenges we’re all facing, The Green Institute has brought you two fantastic quarterly editions of Green Agenda – Into The Fire and On (in)security, webinars on youth & democracy and climate grief and action, a bunch of blog posts, and a democratic… Read More



Bookclub With Scott, Danielle And Tim This Thursday

Bookclub With Scott, Danielle And Tim This Thursday

“Does a story of survival and recovery offer us redemption? Or does it at least spare us the burden of feeling condemned for the crime of omnicide?” These words from towards the end of Professor Danielle Celermajer’s beautiful book, Summertime, ring in my mind as I ponder that difficult, tenuous,… Read More


TheirBudget, Our Lives - A Democratic Budget Reply In Action

#TheirBudget, Our Lives – A Democratic Budget Reply In Action!

If there’s anything better for the soul than a big group of people gathered together around a good meal, actively planning together how to build a better world, I’ve not experienced it. On the traditional Budget Reply night, Thursday of Budget week, The Green Institute partnered with The Australian Unemployed… Read More


Genocide, Ecocide, Omnicide - Talking The Holocaust And Climate Action - Green Institute - Image of Tim Hollo talking to a group of people

Genocide, Ecocide, Omnicide – Talking The Holocaust And Climate Action

I was delighted recently to be invited to speak at the conference of the Australian Academy of Jewish Studies, where I gave a presentation about Ecology, Citizenship and Jewish Identity, drawing together the ideas of Emma Goldman, Hannah Arendt and Murray Bookchin. I talked about how the fragile sense of… Read More


Into The Fire - Green Agenda Journal - Webinar

Green Agenda Journal & Webinar: Into The Fire

Thanks to everyone who came along to the online launch of the Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Summer 2021 Edition: Into The Fire. A special thanks to speakers Lina Koleilat, Dodie Henderson, and Queensland Greens MP Amy MacMahon who discussed how fire defines us and what we… Read More


Ecology, Citizenship, and Jewish Identity - Hannah Arendt and Emma Goldman

Ecology, Citizenship, and Jewish Identity

Speech to The Australian Association of Jewish Studies conference, Canberra, February 28. Thanks very much. I want to start by acknowledging that we’re meeting here on the land of the Ngunnawal people, and pay my respect to their elders, past, present and still to come. This always was and always… Read More


I Am Greta DocPlay Screening - Movie Documentary - Green Institute - Senator Jordon Steele-John

Youth And Democracy In A World On The Brink

Greta Thunberg has swept the globe with her raw honesty and stark challenges to world leaders to act “as if our house is on fire, because it is”. Millions of people, young and old, have been inspired by her to join strikes and marches and get involved in activist groups. Read More


Cultivating Hope - Green Institute Annual Report 2020

Cultivating Hope

Last year will go down as history-making in so many ways. It was an immense struggle, marked by tragedy and devastation. But, unexpectedly, it was also tinged with real hope; the hope that can be found in people coming together through adversity, working collectively to create a better world. Looking… Read More