Living Together

Green Institute Conference 2023 - A Caring City

A Caring City: Energy, Arts and Third Spaces: Green Institute Conference 2023

This recording is from The City Transformed: Urban life at the end of the world as we know it – Green Institute Conference 2023, specifically the stream entitled ‘A Caring City’ featuring “Transforming Energy Systems: caring beyond the local”, with Dr Kat Lucas-Healey and Dr Wendy Russell; “Trust Builds Better… Read More


Affordable and Liveable Cities are Possible!

Affordable and Liveable Cities are Possible!

A new conference panel just dropped, and it’s a corker! Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, the excellent Greens Councillor Sylvie Ellsmore, has just returned from travels where she’s gathered some amazing ideas about transformative policies for public and affordable housing that are actually being implemented and working in cities like Paris and London. Read More



Better World Leaders Podcast - Tim Hollo

Podcast: Tim Hollo Charts Pathways Towards Living Democracy

Tim Hollo was interviewed by ‘Better World Leaders’, a podcast that shares experiences, journeys and insights with leaders who are co-creating our better worlds and futures. Listen on AppleListen now on Spotify An introduction to the podcast from Tim Collings of… Read More


Brave New Green World - Byron Writers Festival Podcast

Podcast: Brave New Green World, Conversations from Byron Writers Festival

In Conversations From Byron, Sarah Wilson sits down with filmmaker and activist Damon Gameau, the ‘electrify everything guy’ Saul Griffith and environmentalist Tim Hollo to imagine a greener future for our world. In a discussion that traverses history, policy, community action and technology, we’re presented… Read More


Living Democracy - An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it - Tim Hollo

Living Democracy in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne And Online

The busy times continue, with fabulous conversations all around the place about Living Democracy. I just spent the day at the ACT Conservation Council’s symposium on the Circular Economy where people from NGOs, government, business and academia were buzzing around ways of reinventing the economy, and what’s being done on the… Read More


Australian Greens - A Liveable Income Guarantee!

A Liveable Income Guarantee!

Did you see the news on the weekend? The Australian Greens have officially proposed a Liveable Income Guarantee, lifting all income support payments to above the Henderson poverty line, and abolishing the nasty, punitive ‘mutual obligations’ and other unfair access restrictions. This is a massively transformative policy… Read More


Image Description: Two overlapping circles, one of left that says 'Apocalypse', One of right that says 'Having to go to work' and an intersection in the middle labelled 'Somehow we ended up here' - Ready To Watch: Together? Apart? Where ARE we??

Ready To Watch: Together? Apart? Where ARE we??

Almost two years ago, in a snap webinar days after Australia went into our first lockdown, The Green Institute hosted the first public conversation in Australia to discuss how we stay together while keeping apart. In the last two years, we’ve seen a huge burst of mutual aid around Australia… Read More


Image Source: Young women sitting on a couch looking at her iphone. Green Institute - COVID 19 - Together Apart

Together? Apart? Where ARE we??

Welcome to 2022. And life doesn’t get less interesting, does it? As we head into our third year of pandemic, with the climate and ecological crisis hanging over us, and with threats to our weakening democracies looking ever more worrying, it’s hard to feel this is a happy new year. Read More


Sharing As Democracy - DemFest21

Sharing As Democracy – DemFest21

What does borrowing dress up clothes or lending a lawnmower have to do with democracy? Quite a lot, as it happens! When you do it thoughtfully. When the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy announced a call for pre-recorded videos for their DemFest21, celebrating local democracy, I… Read More