Latest Updates
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Online Conference Tickets Now Available
Many of you have been asking, and we’ve been working behind the scenes to make it happen effectively, so here it finally is. For those of you who can’t attend this month’s conference, The City Transformed: urban life at the end of the world as we know it, in person in Meanjin / Brisbane, you can…
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Affordable and Liveable Cities are Possible!
A new conference panel just dropped, and it’s a corker! Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, the excellent Greens Councillor Sylvie Ellsmore, has just returned from travels where she’s gathered some amazing ideas about transformative policies for public and affordable housing that are actually being implemented and working in cities like Paris and London. Sylvie is going to tell…
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People Power To Transform The City – Urgently
As extreme heat records tumbled again and sea ice extent crumbled over recent weeks, so many of us had yet another “oh shit” moment about the climate crisis. Even those of us who’ve been working on it for years or decades have been shocked to see this non-linear change happening already. At the same time,…
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Major Announcement: Over 50 Speakers, 20 Sessions, 2 HUGE Days
I’m so excited to share with you the program for next month’s conference, The City Transformed: urban life at the end of the world as we know it. With over 50 speakers from around Australia, including several of our wonderful MPs, councillors and Ministers, some globally-renowned experts, lots of amazing grassroots activists, and all sorts of people with…
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How on Earth do you do that?
In the thousands of conversations I have with people about the need for truly transformative political change, the ideas in my book, Living Democracy, and the work we do here at The Green Institute, one of the questions that so often comes up is “how on Earth do you do that?” And that leads to some…
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Talking Power And Change
Strategic Planning Workshop Reading Material As part of the Australian Greens Strategic Planning process, all Greens members around the country are invited to take part in a half-day workshop to reflect deeply on what we are trying to do as a political party and a movement for change. These workshops, which I am facilitating for…
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Transforming Towards Living: Leading, Seeding And Feeding Transformative Greens Politics
This piece was also published in Green Agenda Journal 2023: Volume One. The old world is dying and the new is struggling to be born.Antonio Gramsci Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.Arundhati Roy Greens politics straddles an uncomfortable contradiction. Many of…
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Podcast: Tim Hollo Charts Pathways Towards Living Democracy
Tim Hollo was interviewed by ‘Better World Leaders’, a podcast that shares experiences, journeys and insights with leaders who are co-creating our better worlds and futures. Listen on AppleListen now on Spotify An introduction to the podcast from Tim Collings of Better World Leaders … “Once you start to engage with systems change, it becomes…
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Podcast: Brave New Green World, Conversations from Byron Writers Festival
In Conversations From Byron, Sarah Wilson sits down with filmmaker and activist Damon Gameau, the ‘electrify everything guy’ Saul Griffith and environmentalist Tim Hollo to imagine a greener future for our world. In a discussion that traverses history, policy, community action and technology, we’re presented with an array of possibilities that embody the 2022 festival…
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Top 7 Green Agenda Reads Of 2022
As we step into the new year, here’s a path circling through Green Agenda’s 2022 most read pieces, cleared by our readers’ high clicks and concerns. Seven articles ranging from reflections on the Greens in power and discussions of Indigenous and environmental struggles in East Gippsland and the West Kimberley, to a Green theory of…
