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Ecological Ethics For The End Of The World As We Know It

Ecological Ethics For The End Of The World As We Know It

Speech delivered by Tim Hollo on 24 September to Conversation at the Crossroads series “Ethics in a turbulent world”. Good evening everyone, and thanks so much, Joseph, for the kind invitation to speak with you tonight as part of this series. The theme of Ethics in a Turbulent Time,… Read More


Protection without violence - The Missing Peace - Green Institute

Protection without violence – don’t miss this

They say truth is the first casualty of war. But sexual violence follows in its dust. And they so often travel together. In South Sudan, amidst civil war, women walking to collect water and firewood have been brutally attacked at horrific rates – a dreadful tally often left unrecognised in… Read More


An active call to peacemake - Green Institute

An Active Call To Peacemake

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


Resistance - nonviolently toppling a dictator - Otpor - Green Institute

Resistance – Nonviolently Toppling A Dictator

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


The Missing Peace - Talking About Nonviolence - Webinars - Green Institute

The Missing Peace: Video And Next Events

In this unstable and volatile world, with most politics assuming that violence is the path to power and security, the Greens’ commitment to peace and nonviolence is a beacon of sense and compassion and wisdom. And last Wednesday evening, we were treated to an immensely enriching and nourishing conversation between… Read More



Peace is a process; nonviolence is action

Peace is a process; nonviolence is action

Nonviolence is a powerful, active, creative and generative form of resistance to violent systems. Every act of violence creates a more violent world. Nonviolence refuses to accept the self-perpetuating logic of the inevitability of violence, and demands of us that we cultivate space for peace-making. In this way, peace can… Read More



Change Everything – Natalie Bennett on her new book on transformative Greens politics

Elections =/= Democracy

On Tuesday evening, when Christine Milne and I chat with former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Natalie Bennett, about her new book, Change Everything, one of the things I’m looking forward to discussing is the weird and complex and misleading relationship between electoral systems and democracy. Register for the… Read More


Dutton Nukes Democratic Climate Debate - Green Institute

Dutton Nukes Democratic Climate Debate

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