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25.01.2022 What a wonderful brood!

25.01.2022 The Green Institute was privileged to have Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng and Lidia Thorpe speaking with us on Indigenous Democracy Now. Be sure to have a watch or listen - it is enlightening, uplifting and inspiring.

25.01.2022 Read more from Senator Rachel Siewert in her Green Agenda journal article 'Now is the time for bold decision making: Senator Siewert on the lessons of 2020' at https://bit.ly/2ID60i4

24.01.2022 Tim Hollo introduces our next COVID Democracy webinar featuring climate champions, Julie Lyford and Amanda Cahill, talking about their groundbreaking work. Register now!

21.01.2022 Sign up now at www.greeninstitute.org.au/sign-up

20.01.2022 What if we worked to tackle the climate crisis and the crisis in democracy together? What if we worked to confront fossil fuels by building community, and cultivating democratic engagement and participation? Thats what our presenters at this next Green Institute webinar are doing. With amazing effect. Register now at www.greeninstitute.org.au//fighting-fossil-fuels-by-buildi

20.01.2022 Green Agenda Quarterly Journal Spring Edition 2020: Where To From Here? Imagining A Post-Covid Future is out now. Discover inside: - ‘Now is the time for bold decision making’: Senator Siewert on the lessons of 2020 by Senator Rachel Siewert. - The trash economy: employment in the post-Covid era by Dr Jane Goodall. - The state of welfare: reimagining support in the wake of Covid-19 by Maiy Azize. - Mobile phones in immigration detention: capturing lessons for post-pandemic tr...ansformation? by Kirsty Anantharajah. - A casual reflection on academia: before and after the pandemic by Dr Joe McCarthy. - Unions and worker’s rights in the pandemic: an interview with Godfrey Moase by Simon Copland. See more

19.01.2022 "...the plaintiffs are arguing the environment minister shouldnt approve the coal proposal because doing so would breach a duty of care owed by the minister to protect them from the harmful impacts of climate change. This includes more frequent extreme weather events, and destruction of the natural systems that support human life."

18.01.2022 Read more from Tim Hollo in his Arena piece Theres No Time Left Not To Do Everything, available now at www.arena.org.au/theres-no-time-left-not-to-do-everything

17.01.2022 On tonight! Last chance. Book now.

16.01.2022 We had a fabulous conversation with Julie Miller Markoff from Bendigos bHive and Nat Defriend from Londons Participatory City, taking us through their work to build better, healthier, happier, greener communities from the grassroots up. Well worth a watch!

16.01.2022 You cant have good democracy and effective decision-making if you suppress expert advice. This is shocking and yet utterly unsurprising.

16.01.2022 At our webinar last week we discussed what it might look like if we worked to tackle the climate crisis and the crisis in democracy together. You can now watch this fantastic conversation in full.

15.01.2022 Facing fear together.

14.01.2022 Escape into this photo of a cute koala for a moment, as were about to get heavy! At this moment of crisis climate crisis, health crisis, biodiversity crisis, democratic crisis its never been more vital and urgent that we build an enabling and nurturing politics for people and the planet. Become a regular donor of The Green Institute at www.greeninstitute.org.au/giving

13.01.2022 While Australian governments are using the cover of COVID to undermine democracy even further, the Taiwanese are doing amazing, exciting and fun experiments with deepening it. Check it out.

13.01.2022 Our Executive Director Tim Hollos major feature essay in this quarters Arena Magazine, out now: "We dont have time any more to keep doing what weve been doing. We dont have time not to rewrite the rules. We dont have time not to change everything."

12.01.2022 Dear Humans, Got a few spare minutes? Dont scroll on just yet! Click into this event and invite your friends. Thanks, Nature.

11.01.2022 Green Agenda is moving to a quarterly online journal. Each season, youll receive a suite of new pieces, interviews, and a webinar, unified around a curated theme. Become a subscriber now at www.greenagenda.org.au/subscribe

10.01.2022 Our Executive Director wrote his vision for The Futurenow Project. Check it out! Well share others in the coming days as well.

10.01.2022 Green Institute Executive Director Tim Hollo recently spoke at the event ‘Homo Ecologicus: Money Between Economy And Ecology’ hosted by Economythologies. If you missed it, you'll appreciate this recording.

09.01.2022 Traditional campaigning methods tend to rely on a healthy democracy, where leaders should respond to the demands of citizens. But, with climate change, that clearly is not working. The power of the fossil fuel sector is so tangled up in political power, and the disinformation and tribalism is so strong, that these methods are failing. But what if we worked to tackle the climate crisis and the crisis in democracy together? What if we worked to confront fossil fuels by building community, and cultivating democratic engagement and participation? Thats what our presenters at this Thursdays webinar are doing. With amazing effect. Register now!

08.01.2022 Art can help us reach the apathetic and the actively hostile, sounding a mayday call they can no longer stand to ignore. It can buoy our sinking spirits, giving us the energy we need to continue bailing the water quite literally rising around us. We need all hands on deck, and art is the radar that will guide us into port. And artists, if youll forgive one final sea metaphor, are the captain, because its in the artists fertile and fecund mind we will find the innovation and insight needed to turn the ship around.

07.01.2022 Cultivate the seeds of political change. Become a regular donor of The Green Institute at www.greeninstitute.org.au/giving

06.01.2022 Sign up to the new Green Agenda at greenagenda.org.au/subscribe

06.01.2022 Abstracts due August 31! Wed love to receive proposals from a range of policy and practice areas: health, inequality, security, green campaigning strategies, protecting and sustaining the environment, the future of work, rebuilding a just economy, a decolonised future please get in touch with your ideas.

05.01.2022 Good morning! Heres a wombat to start your day. Youre welcome.

05.01.2022 Simple. Profound. Vitally important. (And yes, American, but the point is identical.)

04.01.2022 Today is National Threatened Species Day. What a great shot of this little Australian treasure.

03.01.2022 Comments Policy For Constructive Conversations The Green Institute is committed to constructive conversations that bring people together, whether or not we agree, to find creative ways to solve problems. Just like "free speech" has never included the right to shout "fire" in a crowded theatre or, frankly, the right to spread hate and incite violence, any constructive conversation needs basic rules of engagement. In the light of this, here is our comments policy, based on prin...ciples of deliberative democracy, operative immediately. Constructive discussion and debate are welcome on our comments threads. We intend to create a community on this page where people feel able to disagree courteously. 1. If and when disagreeing, please critique ideas and points, not people themselves. 2. Treat other commenters with respect, be curious rather than judgmental, and read what is written before responding. 3. The Green Institute will issue warnings where appropriate, asking commenters to consider these guidelines. Repeat offenders may be rested or removed. 4. Commenters who attack others or spread misinformation will be removed. 5. Unfortunately, trolling culture is real, and some commenters appear on pages not in order to discuss and debate but in order to disrupt and sow discord. Very frequently, such commenters focus on sexism, white supremacy and climate science denial. Such comments will be treated as befits, and banned from the page.

03.01.2022 Tune in to this event on Thursday lunch, if you can, to talk democracy and culture.

03.01.2022 As Malcom Ferdinand explains in this Green Agenda piece, environmental destruction is inseparable from relationships of racial and colonial domination. It stems from the way we inhabit Earth, from our sense of entitlement in appropriating the planet.

03.01.2022 The pandemic is changing the way we work, and the way we think about work, in all sorts of ways. Can we make it for the better?

01.01.2022 This omnicidal, anti-ecological culture will destroy everything in its path to make a quick buck. Its not just about stopping Rio Tinto here - we have to overturn the culture.

01.01.2022 Is anyone surprised that the government is preempting the review into our environment laws, introducing a bill to weaken them even further, before the final report has even been delivered? This is what ecocide looks like.

01.01.2022 The fires in the USA have brought the trauma of last summer back to the surface for many many people. Its patently obvious that the climate crisis is here. Its not in the future. Its here today. And, despite the extraordinary work of so many people, our politics is simply not facing up to it, with both major parties this week reaffirming their commitment to increasing fossil gas extraction. Dont forget to register for our Webinar this Thursday evening to discuss this and more!

01.01.2022 Over half a year, the Green Institute has hosted 9 conversations featuring 26 speakers, discussing countless ideas, from Indigenous democracy to cooperatives to Universal Basic Income. Here, collected for ease of reference, are the videos of the nine webinars: - Staying Together While Keeping Apart, with Holly Hammond, Tim Lo Surdo, El Gibbs, Nicola Paris, Millie Rooney, Meg Clark and Natalie Osborne; Indigenous Democracy, with Lidia Thorpe and Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng; - Dem...ocracy and Universal Basic Income, with Guy Standing, Jane Goodall and Abigail Boyd; - Democracy from the Local to the Global and Back Again, with Prof Carolyn Hendriks and Scott Ludlam; - Facing Up To Catastrophic Risks, with Dr Arnagretta Hunter and Julian Cribb; - Cooperatives for a Democratic Covid Recovery, with Prof Katherine Gibson and Dan Musil; - Sharing, Caring, Co-creating and Co-governing, with Julie Miller Markoff from Bendigo’s bHive and Nat Defriend from London’s Participatory City; - Reset Reading Group, with Holly Hammond, Roj Amedi and Amanda Tattersall; and Building Community to Fight Fossil Fuels, with Julie Lyford and Dr Amanda Cahill. What a fantastic set of conversations this has been! If you’ve missed any, we can highly recommend watching the videos, or listening while going for a walk. You’ll find them informative, inspiring and sometimes even fun!

01.01.2022 Read more from Dr Jane Goodall in her Green Agenda journal article 'The trash economy: employment in the post-Covid era' out now at https://bit.ly/3nkGrl9