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Everything Is Terrible. What A Time To Be Alive! Green Institute - Hope - Doomism

Everything Is Terrible. What A Time To Be Alive!

This opinion piece was first published in The Canberra Times on 15 August, 2021. “So, New Zealand looks like the best place to ride out the apocalypse. When are we moving?” If I had a tonne of coal in the ground for every time someone had… Read More


Momentum Builds For Universal Basic Income

Momentum Builds For Universal Basic Income

Anglicare Australia backing will shift the debate The Green Institute has warmly welcomed Anglicare Australia’s announcement this week of support for Universal Basic Income, making it the first major Australian charity to back the policy shift, and marking an important turning point in the conversation about… Read More


Ecocide - Law As If The Earth Matters

Ecocide – Law As If The Earth Matters

Are we, around the world and here in Australia, slowly but surely making our way towards a legal system where the Earth actually matters? This fantastic conversation suggests that we are, and that we’re picking up speed. Dr Michelle Maloney, from The Australian Earth Laws Alliance,… Read More


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


Full Circle - Scott Ludlam - New Book - Danielle Celermajer - Summertime

From Grief To Possibility To Action: Join Our Virtual Book Club

For everyone who was living anywhere near the gargantuan, climate-change-fuelled fires of 2019-20, or had any connection to the country that was burning, they left an indelible mark on our psyche. Recently, as the autumn chill arrived in Canberra and the first hazard reduction burns took place in the nearby… Read More


Budget, Books And Big Tech

Budget, Books And Big Tech

I’m super excited to be bringing you three fantastic events covering diverse and important issues over the next six weeks. Please join us to discuss how we can resist austerity in a post-budget event with the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, how to move from climate grief to action… 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