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Community Building vs Fossil Fuel Digging

Community Building vs Fossil Fuel Digging

I’m super excited to bring you our next COVID Democracy webinar, featuring two of my favourite climate champions, Julie Lyford and Amanda Cahill, talking about their groundbreaking work. One of the most obvious fault lines in the present… Read More


Green Agenda is evolving!

Green Agenda is evolving!

Well, this is a time of transformation, isn’t it? I’m sure you are all aware of the Institute’s open publishing platform, Green Agenda, where we publish articles and essays and interviews about Green politics. Hopefully you’ve all read something… Read More


Turn It Off And On Again? Reset Reading Group Webinar Recording

Turn It Off And On Again?

If only it were that simple. It never really is, of course. But it’s the idea that this extraordinary moment creates the opportunity to reset our politics that inspired the Reset Reading Group, the first round of which… Read More


Ideas For A Just Future - Reset Reading Group - Green Institute

Ideas For A Just Future

One of the fantastic projects that sprung up thanks to this extraordinary moment, and that the Green Institute has been delighted to be involved with, is the Reset Reading Group. Launched by our friends at the… Read More


Sharing, Caring, Co-creating, Co-governing

Sharing, Caring, Co-creating, Co-governing

We had a fabulous conversation last week with Julie Miller Markoff from Bendigo’s bHive and Nat Defriend from London’s Participatory City, taking us through their work to build better, healthier, happier, greener communities from the grassroots up. In the 6th webinar in our Covid Democracy Series “Community-building From Bendigo To… Read More


Community-building How To

Community-building How To

Following last week’s inspiring conversation about cooperatives as a path to democratic economic recovery, next week we have the opportunity to dig a little deeper into how communities can take the lead and just do it for themselves. Join us for a discussion about Community Building from London… Read More


Talking Cooperatives For A Democratic Covid Recovery - Earthworker Coop

Talking Cooperatives For A Democratic Covid Recovery

The economic recovery that governments across Australia and the world are mostly planning is all about snapping back to an economy controlled by the few, extracting wealth and value from the many. But that’s not the only way of doing this. We could use this moment to make… Read More


Cooperative COVID Economic Recovery

Cooperative COVID Economic Recovery

As we begin the vital work of economic reconstruction, do we have to leave our democracy at the workplace door? As we seek to create job opportunities for people, does it have to be done by handing wads of cash to big, often heavily polluting, corporations to employ grateful workers?… Read More


Facing Up To Catastrophic Risks - Human Futures - Green Institute

Facing Up To Catastrophic Risks

Just as Australia started to lock down, I was privileged to be invited to take part in a full day roundtable conversation on Zoom hosted by the Commission for the Human Future, to discuss the array… Read More


Catastrophe, Cooperatives, And Community-building

Catastrophe, Cooperatives, And Community-building

As we start to emerge from lock-down, thankfully with remarkably low health impacts compared to much of the rest of the world, the economic, social and political impacts of the Covid pandemic will only get more stark. As we’ve already been seeing, the divergent possibilities opened up by this moment,… Read More