With Green Agenda, I get to curate and edit a range of essays and articles – grounded forms of writing, by people and from places, projects and communities, where transformative or prefigurative change is already at play. I feel that Tim’s latest Green Institute project The Missing Peace… Read More
Not quite 25 years ago, something extraordinary happened – a group of young students and activists launched a campaign of resistance, full of humour while deeply serious, powerfully active while entirely nonviolent, that brought down the Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic. As a young activist, then starting out with Greenpeace, and… Read More
What does transformative Greens policy and politics look like? Natalie Bennett, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, and current Greens member of the House of Lords, has written a new book, Change Everything, examining a broad range of ideas from participatory democracy to… Read More
Here we go again. A decade ago, I wrote this piece in The Guardian explaining why the right keeps returning to nuclear power like a dog to a puddle of vomit. It fits their worldview: the “dominion mandate” that says God gave “man” the Earth to dominate; the… Read More
On Saturday evening April 20 Tim Hollo presented a speech at the Gaiarcadia Summit online, on a panel on “Ecovillages and Sustainable Cities” alongside David Holmgren, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Mumta Ito and others. Here is the speech! Good evening, afternoon or morning, everyone. It’s a pleasure to… Read More
Launching Friends of the Green Institute Imagine if we Greens had the time and space to really think deeply about the changes we need in the world, and how to make them happen! Imagine if everyone in and around our party and movement had the opportunity to get involved in… Read More
Almost exactly 8 years ago, I wrote my first email as Executive Director of the Green Institute to many of you, expressing a lot of angst at the state of the world – in that case the shocking fires that had been ripping through Tasmanian forests. Riffing on that particular moment… Read More
Almost 8 years ago, when I was given the incredible privilege and responsibility to lead the Green Institute, I spent months asking people all around the Greens party and movement what they thought the Institute needed to do. One answer that came through loud and clear was that it had… Read More
What a year! As the year comes to a close, I’m delighted to share with you The Green Institute’s Annual Report for 2022/23, showcasing the extraordinary year that was. It was hard to notice it as it flew by, which is why it’s so important to look… Read More
So what actually “causes” happiness? (Spoiler – it’s connection) I was surprised and delighted to be invited to speak at this year’s Happiness and Its Causes conference in Sydney’s International Convention Centre, alongside a stellar line-up including Professor Patrick McGorry, Mawunyo Gbogbo, Dr Catherine Barrett and many more. I… Read More
