In short, how do we live together?
Last night, as it was becoming incontrovertible that the USA was voluntarily turning from neoliberalism to authoritarianism, about a hundred of us gathered on Zoom for what I reckon was just about the best way to process it: talking about care and kinship, responsibility and entanglement, autonomy and action, together.
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They say truth is the first casualty of war. But sexual violence follows in its dust. And they so often travel together. In South Sudan, amidst civil war, women walking to collect water and firewood have been brutally attacked at horrific rates – a dreadful tally often left unrecognised in…
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With Green Agenda, I get to curate and edit a range of essays and articles – grounded forms of writing, by people and from places, projects and communities, where transformative or prefigurative change is already at play. I feel that Tim’s latest Green Institute project The Missing Peace…
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Not quite 25 years ago, something extraordinary happened – a group of young students and activists launched a campaign of resistance, full of humour while deeply serious, powerfully active while entirely nonviolent, that brought down the Serbian dictator, Slobodan Milosevic. As a young activist, then starting out with Greenpeace, and…
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What does transformative Greens policy and politics look like? Natalie Bennett, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, and current Greens member of the House of Lords, has written a new book, Change Everything, examining a broad range of ideas from participatory democracy to…
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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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Launching Friends of the Green Institute Imagine if we Greens had the time and space to really think deeply about the changes we need in the world, and how to make them happen! Imagine if everyone in and around our party and movement had the opportunity to get involved in…
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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…
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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…
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