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People Want A Better Future: Let’s Work Out How To Build It
What if I told you that people in regional Queensland want to transition to renewables? That they know it’s inevitable, and want governments to manage it? If you follow the news, or listen to politicians, you’d think I was talking nonsense, wouldn’t you? But if, like Dr Amanda Cahill, you’d spent months and months in…
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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 COVID moment is over climate action and fossil fuels, with governments using the cover of the pandemic to…
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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 stimulating there over the years, about protecting nature, urban environments, peace, democracy, work, or the future…
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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 came to a close with our webinar last week. The Reading Group sprang from the idea that,…
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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 Commons Social Change Library, this brought together six of us to curate fortnightly sets of readings around ideas for…
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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 London”, we learned about how,…
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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 to Bendigo. I was so inspired, in…
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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 our economy more democratic, and cooperatives are…
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Sow The Seeds Of Ecological Democracy
As we hit the halfway mark of this most extraordinary, challenging, terrifying and occasionally actually inspiring year, I need to ask for your support. Like everybody else, The Green Institute had to drastically change plans for the last few months, and I’m proud of what we’ve managed to do. Instead of the in-person participatory democracy…
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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? There are, of course, alternatives.…
