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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…
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“Aboriginal relationality and the city”: 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 Day 1 Keynote Speakers Dr Mary Graham and Dr Michelle Maloney speaking on “Aboriginal relationally and the city”. The microphones were a bit scratchy and the talk was incredibly important…
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The Land Back: 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 Mundanara Bayles and Birdy Bird presenting their talk ‘The Land Back’. About Mundanara Bayles Mundanara’s cultural heritage is connected to the Wonnarua and Bunjalung people on her mother’s side and…
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“Sustainable Materialism as politics” Keynote and “Protest and the City” Panel: 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, specifically the keynote speech for the opening of day two by Professor David Schlosberg discussing “Sustainable Materialism as politics” and a panel on “Protest and the city” with Violet Coco, David…
