When most of us live lives disconnected from nature, rarely see wild animals, have even lost the vocabulary to identify plants and animals, how can we truly understand the changes that we are driving? How can we mourn what we never really knew?
We seek to demonstrate that a truly progressive politics is inherently green: if you consider that humanity is part of nature, you cannot work to improve humanity’s lot without cherishing and protecting nature.
Turning a coal ship around is incredibly difficult. Turning the ship of state is even harder. It’s so much easier to stop investing our trust in the whole shebang and simply start living into being the world we need – a world of peace, of democracy, of just and regenerative…
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Yesterday, as I sat in the rain on the road in front of Parliament House, with a cop’s knee in my back, the crowd broke into a powerful chant of: Show me what democracy looks like This is what democracy looks…
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Speech delivered by Tim Hollo on 24 September to Conversation at the Crossroads series “Ethics in a turbulent world”. Good evening everyone, and thanks so much, Joseph, for the kind invitation to speak with you tonight as part of this series. The theme of Ethics in a Turbulent Time,…
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Here we go again. A decade ago, I wrote this piece in The Guardian explaining why the right keeps returning to nuclear power like a dog to a puddle of vomit. It fits their worldview: the “dominion mandate” that says God gave “man” the Earth to dominate; the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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“Aboriginal relationality and the city” with Dr Mary Graham and Dr Michelle Maloney VIEW SLIDES “The Land Back” with Mundanara Bayles and Birdy Bird VIEW SLIDES “Perth 2.0”, with Dr Brad Pettit MLC VIEW SLIDES “The Suburb and…
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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 stream entitled ‘Beating the Heat: Community action for cool cities”, with Emma Bacon (Sweltering Cities), Holstein Wong and Ryan McNeilly Smith. Facilitated by Green…
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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 close of day one by Professor Susan Harris Rimmer discussing “Cruel Summer: Extreme Heat and Human Rights in Australian Cities”…
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