Latest Updates
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Re-engaging
Well, I’m back! As you may recall, I stepped down as Executive Director of the Green Institute back in March in order to focus fully on my election campaign for the seat of Canberra. The board kindly kept my position vacant for the duration, while the wonderful Elissa Jenkins very ably held the fort, and…
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Watch Back – Greens Leaders Talk Democracy
This month I was incredibly privileged to chair a webinar with three tremendously inspiring Greens leaders from around the globe, as we launched the Global Greens Strengthening Democracy Network. If you weren’t able to join us, quite late in the evening, you can now watch or listen to the video of the conversation here. Bringing three…
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Transformative Incrementalism: Changing Global Systems By Changing Our Part Of The World
On Saturday evening April 20 Tim Hollo presented a speech at the Gaiarcadia Summit online, on a panel on “Ecovillages and Sustainable Cities” alongside David Holmgren, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Mumta Ito and others. Here is the speech! Good evening, afternoon or morning, everyone. It’s a pleasure to be part of this important conversation, sharing virtual space…
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Leaping towards transformative politics!
Launching Friends of the Green Institute Imagine if we Greens had the time and space to really think deeply about the changes we need in the world, and how to make them happen! Imagine if everyone in and around our party and movement had the opportunity to get involved in well-facilitated, well-informed conversations about transformative…
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Write For Green Agenda!
Green Agenda is open for submissions. Our first issue for 2024 will be thematically open. We welcome submissions from researchers, writers, activists and creatives. Submit your pitch here! Send us your abstract or pitch by 3 March. Final contributions will be due in late March. We mainly publish essays and creative non-fiction (between 1,500 and 2,500…
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Together
Almost exactly 8 years ago, I wrote my first email as Executive Director of the Green Institute to many of you, expressing a lot of angst at the state of the world – in that case the shocking fires that had been ripping through Tasmanian forests. Riffing on that particular moment of crisis, I put forward a…
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Listen up! Audiobook is Living!
Almost 8 years ago, when I was given the incredible privilege and responsibility to lead the Green Institute, I spent months asking people all around the Greens party and movement what they thought the Institute needed to do. One answer that came through loud and clear was that it had been too long since we’d…
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Looking Back and Looking Forward
What a year! As the year comes to a close, I’m delighted to share with you The Green Institute’s Annual Report for 2022/23, showcasing the extraordinary year that was. It was hard to notice it as it flew by, which is why it’s so important to look back and see what we achieved together: so many…
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Happiness and Its Causes
So what actually “causes” happiness? (Spoiler – it’s connection) I was surprised and delighted to be invited to speak at this year’s Happiness and Its Causes conference in Sydney’s International Convention Centre, alongside a stellar line-up including Professor Patrick McGorry, Mawunyo Gbogbo, Dr Catherine Barrett and many more. I wasn’t sure what they were expecting…
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Inspiration to fill your heart: Watch. Listen. Read.
If we want a better world, we have to be ready and willing to do the hard work of living it into being, and of withdrawing our consent from the old, destructive and dying world. If we want peace, we have to be ready and willing to live in peace, to cultivate peace, to reject…
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Welcome to Country and Opening Address: 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 featuring Kathryn Fisher (Aunty Kathy) for the Welcome to Country and an opening address by Executive Director of The Green Institute Tim Hollo. About Tim Hollo A highly regarded environmentalist, community…
