Latest Updates
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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…
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IPAN Conference – Connecting The Climate And Peace Movements Through Transformative Action
Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks so much for having me here. I also acknowledge that we’re meeting on land violently stolen from peoples who had lived here in diverse nations, in peace, since time immemorial. Paying respect to all elders, I want to particularly acknowledge Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng and Professor Mary Graham, from whom…
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Living Democracy in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne And Online
The busy times continue, with fabulous conversations all around the place about Living Democracy. I just spent the day at the ACT Conservation Council’s symposium on the Circular Economy where people from NGOs, government, business and academia were buzzing around ways of reinventing the economy, and what’s being done on the ground. I started the day…
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The Opposite Of Violence Is Connection
Today, August 6, is Hiroshima Day, 77 years after the detonation of an atomic bomb over the Japanese city caused unimaginable death, destruction and devastation. It’s a day to ponder peace. And, as such, a day on which I thought I’d share an extract from my book, Living Democracy, from the chapter on what I fear…
