Events
Missing Peace Webinar #5: Defending nonviolent protest from criminalisation, suppression and lies
Thursday 5 December, 8pm AEDTWebinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Thursday 5 December 2024 Nonviolent protest is central to democratic rights and change-making. As…
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Missing Peace Webinar #4: Decolonising and nonviolence: relationality, entanglement and complexity
8pm AEST, Wednesday 6 NovemberWebinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Wednesday 6 November 2024 View Professor Yin Paradies’ Powerpoint Presentation slides. First Nations understandings of understandings of peace and security, violence and nonviolence, relationality and entanglement, have so much to teach us as we grapple with The Missing Peace. The Green Institute is immensely privileged to bring…
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Missing Peace Webinar #3: Nonviolence, consensus, and politics coming together across difference
8pm AEST, Wednesday 2 October 2024Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Nonviolence is about a willingness to appreciate our coexistence, to respect our mutuality, our entanglement, and our…
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Missing Peace Webinar #2: The Power of Nonviolence – experiences in war and revolution
8pm AEST, 12 September 2024Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Can nonviolence really make change? Can it be a useful strategy in the face of war and…
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Making Democracy Fit For Purpose In The 21st Century
4 September, 2024U3A Canberra Northside invited Tim to present on the challenges to democracy and possibilities for reinventing it, expanding on the themes in Living Democracy. You can read the speech here.
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Missing Peace Webinar #1: The Greens’ commitment to peace with Bob Brown and Jo Vallentine
8pm AEST, 7 August 2024Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence We need to talk about peace and nonviolence. Urgently. Webinar: 8pm AEST, Wednesday 7 August 2024 The language of peace is starkly missing from politics. And the practices of nonviolence, from the interpersonal to the global, are less and less part of the way we act. It is crucial that we…
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Change Everything – Natalie Bennett on her new book on transformative Greens politics, with guest Christine Milne
8pm AEST, 9 July 2024If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Webinar: 8pm AEST, Tuesday 9 July 2024 What does transformative Greens policy and politics look like? Natalie Bennett, former leader…
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Join Global Green Leaders to discuss democracy
9pm AEST, 8 May, 2024OK, this is genuinely exciting! As something of a democracy obsessive (have you noticed? But more and more of us are, given the state of the world today), I get to talk about democracy with some fantastic people pretty regularly. Just in the last week, I’ve had the privilege of being part of two excellent discussions that will hopefully lead…
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Greens Workshop: Building Better Branches
10am-4pm 2 March, 2024In Melbourne? Join this cross-branch workshop exploring how to sow community connections and grow thriving campaigns. 10am-4pm2 March, 2024Edinburgh Gardens Community RoomFitzroy VIC 3065 Guided by principles from his inspiring book ‘Living Democracy’, the Green Institute’s Tim Hollo will lead a collaborative conversation about growing Greens branches in Victoria into lively hubs of mutual aid and…
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Author Discussion: Living Democracy with Tim Hollo – Hobsons Bay Libraries
6.30pm, 29 February 2024Engage in lively conversations and collaborative problem-solving—this is living democracy. Join Tim Hollo for this Hobsons Bay Libraries event part of the National Sustainable Living Festival 2024. Despite global challenges, Tim Hollo’s Living Democracy offers bold ideas for positive change. The narrative challenges the notion that it’s the end of the world, offering glimpses of exciting new journeys worldwide. Join this…
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Life After Capitalism? NENA Conference
17-19 November, 2023Tim Hollo will be speaking at this year’s NENA (New Economy Network Australia) Conference in Canberra. It’s been said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. But today’s climate change, environmental decline and social justice challenges are forcing societies to rethink our economic systems and social governance.
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Happiness And Its Causes
16-17 November, 2023Tim Hollo is speaking at Happiness And Its Causes in Sydney, one of the world’s leading conferences on human happiness and wellbeing. How should we live, work and care for others?How can we be happy?What brings meaning and joy to our lives?How can we contribute to a better world?Happiness & Its Causes has been exploring life’s…
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Bentley Effect movie screening – Canberra
6.15pm, 22 October 2023Hosted by Rising Tide and Emma Davidson MLA Buy tickets here. When: 6:15pm to 8:45pm Sunday 22 OctoberWhere: Polish White Eagle Club38 David StTurner ACT 2612 You are warmly invited to a screening of the epic doco The Bentley Effect. Enjoy a night with friends celebrating people power against the fossil fuel industry – there’ll be some food and…
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Q&A Screening)
7.30pm, 19 October 2023PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ANU LAW REFORM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE – FOLLOWED BY PANEL DISCUSSION More info here. Exasperated and out of options, a group of eight environmental activists plan an act of sabotage to stop a pipeline in West Texas, which could disrupt the global oil supply. Are they willing to risk everything for their…
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Green Institute Conference 2023
18/19 August, 2023Meanjin / Brisbane and online, Aug 18/19, Griffith University, South Bank Green Institute Conference 2023Meanjin / Brisbane and onlineFriday 18 August & Saturday 19Griffith University, South Bank If you are tuning in online and have registered yet haven’t received your Zoom link please text Elissa on 0418 786 986 with your email address…
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Nature | Market: how Labor is sacrificing the environment to corporate profits and what you can do
8pm, 31 May 2023If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Fresh from approving her first coal mine, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is pushing the Labor government’s first major environmental legislation through the parliament. And it’s…
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Webinar: Living Towards Transformation – Discussing Green Agenda 2023/1
8pm AEDT, 13 April 2023If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! To speak of change today conjures up images of high-tech gadgetry and low carbon infrastructures pulled together towards energy transitions. Change might be the latest…
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Community, Comedy and Conversation with Mandy Nolan
9am, 11 March, 2023In Adelaide? Join us for a very special, very delicious pre-WOMAD breakfast with Mandy Nolan who’s in town for the Adelaide Fringe for her comedy show ‘Women Like Us’. A stand up comedian for well over 28 years, audiences adore Mandy on stage, but this intimate breakfast will delve into some of the more serious issues of the day –…
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Living Democracy with Tim Hollo at Bondi Beach
6.30pm, 16 February 2023The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other’s ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching and chanting in protest. This is living democracy. Yes, the world looks bleak. Across our society there’s a mounting sense of desperation in the face of the climate crisis, gaping economic…
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Living Democracy with Tim Hollo at Central Coast Greens
5.30pm, 15 February 2023Hosted by Central Coast Greens. We’re acutely aware of how fragile democracy is on the Central Coast, after a forced amalgamation and then the sacking of our elected councillors. We face the consequences of the climate emergency through bushfires, floods and sea storms. Many people travel hours every day to get to work, and more and…
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Living Democracy with Tim Hollo & Adam Bandt, Melbourne
6.30pm, 20 October 2022Join us for drinks at Small Time as Melbourne celebrates the launch of Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it, the new book from writer and Greens activist Tim Hollo. 6.30pm, Thursday 20 October, 2022Small Time, 271-273 Albert St, Brunswick Living Democracy offers bold…
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Living Democracy: Brisbane Book Launch
4pm, Sunday 25 September, 2022Hosted by the Food Connect Foundation 3.30pm for a 4pm startSunday 25 September, 2022Food Connect Shed8 Textile Crescent, Salisbury, Queensland Get tickets here. Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it, is the new book from Tim Hollo, Executive Director of The Green Institute. Join Emma-Kate Rose in conversation…
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Living Democracy: Adelaide Book Launch
4-6pm, Sunday 18 September 2022Join us in conversation with Tim Hollo, Executive Director of The Green Institute and author of the newly published book Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it. Tim will be joined by new SA Greens Senator, Barbara Pocock, and Assoc Prof Peter Burdon from University of Adelaide, with MC Rebecca Galdies, chair…
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Living Democracy with Tim Hollo: Tathra, NSW
7pm, Friday 9 September, 2022Join author Tim Hollo in conversation with a special guest to be announced at the Tathra Hotel. 7pm, Friday 9 September, 2022Tathra Hotel & Motel8-12 Bega St, Tathra NSW 2550, Australia Get tickets here. The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other’s ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with.
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Living Democracy: Canberra Book Launch
6pm, Wednesday 31 August, 2022Join us in conversation with Tim Hollo, Executive Director of The Green Institute and author of the newly published book Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it. Tim will be joined by Shane Rattenbury & Dr Arnagretta Hunter. Register now. 6pm, Wednesday 31 August 2022Cultural Centre Kambri T2 (ANU…
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Tim Hollo at Byron Writers Festival 2022
26 — 28 August, 2022Tim Hollo is part of the Bryon Writers Festival line-up. A highly regarded environmentalist, community builder and musician, Tim Hollo is Executive Director of the Green Institute, where he leads research and discussions around issues such as ecological politics, deep democracy, rights of nature, and Universal Basic Income. He is the founder of Green Music…
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Living Democracy: In Conversation with Tim Hollo, Blue Mountains Greens
4pm, 13 August 2022Hosted by Blue Mountains Greens. Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it, is the new book from Tim Hollo, Executive Director of The Green Institute and former Greens candidate. Join the Blue Mountains Greens in conversation with Tim to discuss the fact that while yes, the world…
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Living Democracy Book Launch, Glebe Books NSW
6pm-9pm, Friday 12 August, 2022With book author Tim Hollo in conversation with Abigail Boyd MLC and Professor Danielle Celermajer. Discover full event details at Gleebooks. 6pm-9pm, Friday 12 August, 2022…
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Online Book Launch: Living Democracy by Tim Hollo
8pm AEDT, Thursday 11 August 2022The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other’s ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching and chanting in protest. This is living democracy. Join us in conversation with Tim Hollo, Executive Director of The Green Institute and author of the newly published book Living Democracy: An ecological…
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February Event: Together? Apart? Where ARE we??
8pm AEDT, 9 February 2022Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Wednesday 9 February 2022 Almost two years ago, in a snap webinar days after Australia went into our first lockdown, the Green Institute hosted the first public conversation in Australia to discuss how we stay together while keeping apart. Two years on, what have we learned? What have we done, and what has been done to us?…
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Special Event: Mark The 10th Anniversary Of The Greens/Gillard Clean Energy Act With Us!
8pm AEDT, 8 November 2021Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Monday 8 November 2021 In the toxic wasteland that is Australia’s climate politics, it’s sometimes easy to forget that, ten years ago, we had a historic win! Join us to mark this anniversary at a very special online event featuring three of the key players, Christine Milne, Professor Will Steffen, and Adam Bandt, at 8pm on November…
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Unconditionally: How Covid Response Points The Way To Unconditional Welfare
8pm AEDT, 27 October 2021Can we imagine a future where income support payments in Australia are permanently made unconditional? The Covid response helps us do so – and it’s a brighter future! Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Wednesday 27 October 2021 When the Covid pandemic sent Australia into lockdown in 2020, the Federal Government was pushed by advocates and circumstance into an extraordinary step that changed…
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What Is Green Politics?
5am UTC, 10 October 2021As Greens, we have a vision to change the world, for a more just and sustainable future. But what makes Green politics different from the old ways? Our vision isn’t just about the outcomes we want, but about the process we use to get there. Many of us are mobilised by issues, such as climate change, inequality, and destruction of…
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A Conversation About Peace And Nonviolence In International Relations
7pm AEDT, 7 October, 2021The Greens have always believed in working together for peace. We’ve always understood that protecting people and the planet from the horrors of war takes the steady work of cooperation, building mutual respect, fostering connections between peoples, and putting in the effort to understand each other. That’s why the Morrison government’s announcement that it will spend over $90 billion to…
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Webinar: Could Australian Politicians Soon Be Prosecuted For Ecocide?
6pm, 29 July 2021All of a sudden, momentum is swiftly building to introduce a global crime of ecocide, alongside genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity – making severe, widespread and long-lasting environmental destruction illegal under international law. Webinar: 6pm AEST, Thursday 29 July 2021 (not our usual time of 8pm). A few weeks ago, a high level panel of experts proposed a…
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Big Tech Let The World Burn: Green Agenda Webinar
8pm AEST, Thursday 17 June, 2021When the Australian Government tried to push through the news media bargaining code earlier in the year, the Australian public faced the power of big digital platforms first hand. Facebook banned any pages in the country that fit under the broadest definition of ‘news’ imaginable, blocking not just the pages of The Guardian and The Australian, but also the Bureau…
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Grief, Possibility, Action: Green Institute Webinar
8pm AEST, Thursday 27 May 2021If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Scott Ludlam and Danielle Celermajer discuss the fires, the future, interdependence, and their new books. The devastating fires across eastern Australia as the 2020s began…
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Youth and Democracy in a World on the Brink: “I Am Greta” online screening and webinar with Jordon Steele-John
8pm AEDT, 10 February, 2021If you have registered, you will have received a Zoom link email at the time you registered. You will also have received a reminder email including the Zoom link at around 3.22pm AEDT this afternoon (Wednesday 10 February). If you have registered and haven’t received the Zoom link via email (check your junk/spam folders first!), please text/call Elissa 0418 786…
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Where To From Here? Imagining A Post-Covid Future
8pm AEDT, 11 November 2020The ongoing effects of Covid-19 continue around Australia and our region. On every front – politically, economically, culturally – life seems to have become more difficult. The economic and social fallout will be long-lasting, and most keenly felt by those who were already struggling. At the same time, the pandemic could represent an opportunity. There might be,…
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Homo Ecologicus: Money Between Economy and Ecology
10am, 6 November 2020The image of Homo Economicus underpins the ubiquity of neo-classical economics, delineating the possibilities of exchange for humans conceived as rational and self-interested beings. How does growing awareness of our ecological entanglements with human and more-than-human beings invite a reimagining of our economies, societies and political systems? Miss this event? Watch now below. Hosted by…
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Covid Democracy Webinar Series: Fighting Fossil Fuels By Building Community
8pm, 17 September 2020The coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to reevaluate and reset our political conversation. One of the most obvious fault lines is over climate action and fossil fuels, with governments using the cover of the pandemic to push forward with polluting and destructive projects despite ever clearer evidence that a…
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How Do We Reset? Ideas For A Just Future
7.30pm, 5 August 2020Speakers: Roj Amedi, Tim Hollo, Amanda Tattersall and Godfrey Moase The pandemic has disrupted business as usual, opening up the potential for different futures. Everything is being Reset… How things unfold from here is up to us. Join four of the curators of the Reset Reading Group for…
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Covid Democracy Webinar Series: Community-building From Bendigo To London
8pm, 16 July, 2020The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. It has also introduced huge numbers of people to ideas of mutual aid, anarchist organising, and participatory commons-based community building. For this webinar, we are delighted to have speakers joining us from two remarkable grassroots projects…
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Covid Democracy Webinar Series: Cooperatives As A Path To Democratic Economic Recovery
8pm, 2 July, 2020The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. What does that mean for Scott Morrison’s “laser-like focus on jobs”, and the planned economic recovery being driven by a corporate agenda? Can we, at a moment like this, begin to plan a democratic economic recovery?…
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Covid Democracy Webinar Series: Facing Up To Catastrophic Risks
8pm, 18 June 2020The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing challenges and injustices and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. In the earliest days of Australia’s lockdown, the Commission For The Human Future held an online roundtable to discuss the range of catastrophic…
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Covid Democracy Series: From the Local to the Global and Back, with Scott Ludlam, Carolyn Hendriks and Tim Hollo
8pm, 4 June 2020The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. There are extraordinary signs, at the local and the global level, that communities are ready to make a tremendous shift. The political response to this crisis, with authoritarian over-policing and stimulus geared to supporting capital over…
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Virtual Campfire: A Green Institute Fundraiser
7.30pm, 30 May 2020If you have bought a ticket and haven’t received your Zoom link via email (check spam first!) please request the link by texting Elissa 0418 786 986 with your full name and your email address. Ta! Enjoy a night of online games, theatre, stories, poetry, music and song while sitting around a wondrous Virtual Campfire. Join this heartwarming, family-friendly Zoom…
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Covid Democracy Webinar Series: UBI with Guy Standing, Abigail Boyd and Jane Goodall
8pm, 21 May, 2020The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. Around the world, there’s a growing sense that Universal Basic Income could be an important part of how we make our societies more democratic, more fair, and more resilient in the face of the rolling crises…
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Covid Democracy Webinar Series: Indigenous Democracy Now with Tjanara Goreng Goreng and Lidia Thorpe
8pm, 7 May, 2020There’s a gaping wound at the heart of Australian democracy – the genocide and dispossession of the first peoples of this land. The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. It’s vital that we put Indigenous justice and democracy at the centre of this…
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Reviewing Australia’s Environment Laws After The Fires
24 March, 2020CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 – WITH APOLOGIES The Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act has, throughout its history, facilitated developments as the expense of ecologies across the continent, enabling environmental destruction on a grand scale. And yet, the Morrison Government has framed this year’s statutory review as an opportunity to make development even easier, “cutting green tape” to…
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Snap Webinar: Staying Together While Keeping Apart
19 March, 2020Snap Webinar: Staying Together While Keeping Apart Apologies to those trying to register. The Webinar, capped at 100, is now SOLD OUT! However, f you would like to receive a video recording of the Webinar please sign up to receive our email updates. How do we keep working for justice and for community cohesion when we’re being told, for…
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Finding Agency And Action In A Time Of Ecological Crisis
March 17, 2020CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 – WITH APOLOGIES What would it look like if climate activism acknowledged that our existing democratic norms and institutions will not deliver the scale and pace of change necessary and are also fundamentally ill-suited to enabling human survival as ecologies collapse? How might we develop a new approach which ties together climate action, community building and…
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Environmental Protection Laws After The Fires: Learn About The EPBC Act Review And How To Make A Submission.
11 March, 2020Attending tonight? Didn’t receive the Zoom link? Text/call Elissa 0418 786 986 or email elissa.jenkins@greeninstitute.org.au Environmental Protection Laws After The Fires: Learn About The EPBC Act Review And How To Make A Submission. This summer has changed everything. We are now living in the age of climate consequences, and, for so many people, old ideas of the world have burned…
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Democracy Is Not A Spectator Sport Interactive Panel: Deepening Democracy For The Climate Emergency
February 13, 2020Book your ticket now. In the midst of our climate emergency this interactive panel will talk boldly on why a healthy democracy matters, the key signs that tell us we need to improve our democracy, and big and tangible ideas that will deepen democracy so we can…
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Cultivating Democracy: Green Institute Conference, 15-17 November, 2019
15-17 November, 2019Democracy – it’s always been incomplete, compromised and fragile, but today our democratic systems and institutions are under threat like never before. With ecological breakdown underway, inequality spiralling, colonialism and patriarchy still not dismantled, and the hate-fuelled far right on the rise, we desperately need democracies which are able to both reverse these trends and create hope-filled…
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The European Green Wave: What’s Going On? With Reinhard Butikofer MEP
27 August, 2019Be sure to come along to this Green Institute Webinar with Reinhard Butikofer MEP who is the European Greens Party Co-chair and MEP for the German Green party Bündnis90/Die Grünen. Last month’s European elections saw another surge towards the Greens, leaping from 50 to 74 seats in the European Parliament. The results are particularly astonishing in Germany, where the…
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Towards Ecological Democracy – A Political Theory For The 21st Century
20 August 2019In this seminar, Towards Ecological Democracy – A Political Theory For The 21st Century, Green Institute Executive Director, Tim Hollo, will present a theory of ecological democracy which seeks to apply the fundamentals of ecology to politics, articulating a vision of interconnection, interdependence, and resilience in diversity. Active, constructive critique and participation are welcome. Tuesday, 20 August…
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The Politics Of The Common Good: Book Launch & Panel Discussion
14 August, 2019Jane R. Goodall’s The Politics Of The Common Good: Dispossession In Australia – Book Launch & Panel Discussion Panel with Professor Bronwen Morgan & Tim Hollo To be introduced by Dr. Stephanie Dowrick ‘The Earth is a Common Treasury’, proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of the commons offer us ways to respond now to the…
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“Green New Deal” And Its Relevance In Australia
10 July, 2019Green Institute Executive Director Tim Hollo will be co-presenting – with Prof. Bronwen Morgan from University of NSW – a webinar hosted by the New Economics Network Australia, on the Green New Deal. It will be a considered and critical look at what the implications of the idea are, and what we in Australia need to…
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Making Canberra A Human Centred City
1:30 pm–4:30 pm, Saturday 13 October, 2018Date & Time: 1:30 pm–4:30 pm, Saturday 13 October, 2018 Location: Room 1, Ainslie Arts Centre, Elouera Street, Canberra, ACT 2612 BOOK TICKETS NOW We’re co-hosting an exciting event with See Change and Urban Synergies Group on Making Canberra a Human-Centred City. Come along and help co-design the commons! You are invited to…
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“Conversation Starters” To Help Design A UBI
8pm-9.30pm, Tuesday 7 Aug, 2018.Date & Time: 8pm-9.30pm, Tuesday 7 Aug, 2018. Location: Online via Zoom UBI is a conversation we need to have together, so we’ve put together three “Conversation Starter” papers, so you can host a conversation on Universal Basic Income at your local Greens branch or in your local community. Keen to host a conversation? Join us on this Webinar…
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Talking Ecological Democracy
8pm-9:30pm, Wednesday 23 May, 2018Date & Time: 8pm-9:30pm, Wednesday 23 May, 2018 Location: Online via Zoom Do you find yourself, having read Towards Ecological Democracy, wanting to talk about it? Are there points you strongly agree with or disagree with? Are there ideas you want to explore further? On May 23, at 8pm AEST, we’ll be holding our first webinar for some time,…
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Commons/Wealth Games: The Commonwealth And The Commons
6pm-8pm - 18 April, 2018Date & Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, April 18, 2018. Location: Griffith University EcoCentre, Building N68, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan Free event! RSVP ESSENTIAL. Please email dominic.jarvis@griffith.edu.au to RSVP. Refreshments provided. Free parking information for the evening available here. The Commonwealth of Nations was born through the brutal enclosure of The Commons. From…
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Activating The Urban Commons: How Do We Make Canberra A Sharing City?
April 10, 2018Book launch, panel and open conversation. Book your ticket now! Date & Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm, April 10, 2018. Location: ANU Food Co-op; 3 Kingsley St; Canberra. View the event flyer. Come and hear what’s going on, what others are doing around the world, and what we can do to make Canberra the Commons Capital! Darren…
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Politics in the Pub – A Common Good
February 22, 2018A Common Good: Democratic Futures for People + Planet Join Tim Hollo, Executive Director of the Green Institute, and Professor Stuart Rees, Council for Social Justice, Syd. Uni, in a discussion about the importance of changing the system to a focus on the common good, “grounded in the principles of ecology, social justice, democracy, non-violence, sustainability…
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Everything Is Connected: Green Institute Conference
October 27-28, 2017Building A Green Politics For The Next 25 Years Old Parliament House, Canberra, Friday and Saturday, October 27-28, 2017 2017 marks 25 years since the federation of the Australian Greens – a quarter century in which the party has gone from being a fringe movement to an established political force making substantial impacts on the course…
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Keep Canberra Ad Free
May 29, 2017Did you know that Andrew Barr wants to weaken the restrictions on billboard advertising in Canberra? The fact that we have so few billboards is one of the truly special things about this city. Help us keep in that way! “Advertising at its best is making people feel that, without their product, you’re a loser.” Nancy Shaley, ad executive. “Of…
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WELA 2017
WELA 2017 The leadership program for women environmentalists The Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) program is a first for Australia – a leadership program designed by and for women environmentalists. The first WELA program in 2016 was such a success that we have been inspired to offer it again in 2017: read what participants said. The…
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The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence
We need to talk about peace and nonviolence. Urgently. In an increasingly unstable and volatile world, facing the climate crisis, the rise of the extreme right’s politics of hate and exclusion, spiralling economic inequality, and rampant misinformation, it is deeply troubling that commitment to nonviolence as a strategy, a tactic, and a philosophy is weaker right now than it has…
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