I woke up today with a painful knot In my stomach, and I’d cried twice before breakfast. And a few times since. Tears of anger and frustration and impatience. Not my usual Saturday. What right do any of us have, to put Indigenous people through this shit? It’s 2023 and we’re arguing about their right…
NENA’s Short Course “Building a New Economy for Australia” is being held again in 2023
The New Economy Network Australia (NENA) is excited to be hosting its 8 week short course again this year, from 2 May to 20 June 2023. As the creator of this course, I’m super excited to see how participants have engaged with and learned from our course over the past three years. The 8 week…
South Asia Bioregionalism Working Group
This week I was pleased to give an online presentation to the South Asia Bioregionalism Working Group, about AELA’s Earth-centred bioregional governance program, ‘Greenprints‘. The South Asia Bioregionalism Working Group (SABWG) is a voluntary network of members ‘reimagining ecoregional and bioregional governance for South Asia’. The group works to explore and highlight shared and connected…
NENA’s Housing Week – November 2022
It’s still difficult to comprehend that in the 21st Century, with Australia being one of the wealthiest countries on earth, that we have an ongoing housing crisis. Australia is seeing soaring rental prices, escalating homelessness and increasing unaffordable mortgages. In addition, many of Australia’s old residential stock isn’t being properly maintained, and so many new…
Earthwords and Artlings 2022 – ‘Tipping points’
AELA’s Earth Arts program aims to stimulate and showcase the role of creativity in transforming our societies to Earth-centred systems of governance. AELA has been hosting arts activities – including art exhibitions and creative conversations – since we were created in 2012. In the past few years, we’ve also been able to support a biennial…
Doughnut Economics and the Greenprints approach
Doughnut Economics is nothing short of a phenomenon, and it’s been exciting to develop our own Greenprints version of the Doughnut framework’s now iconic diagram. When I first read Kate Raworth’s book in 2017, I was so excited that an economist – and a female economist at that – was building on the foundations of…
Eco-representation and eco-democracy
Within our work at the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), we’re often asked how people and organisations can implement ecocentrism and/or Rights of Nature in practice. There are many approaches that can be used, to highlight, promote and ‘centre’ the non-human living world within human governance systems. In this blog, I discuss two connected ideas:…
Earth Laws Masterclass, Djabaguy Country
I was honoured to be invited to host a workshop with Barry Hunter and other Djabaguy people on their beautiful country in the wet tropics, a place that is now called Kuranda and the Atherton Tableland. Local scientist and community organiser, Paul Devine, kindly organised the workshop, as a Masterclass for resource management professionals –…
Joining the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Advisory Committee
I was really honoured to be invited onto the Blue Mountains City Council’s (BMCC) Planetary Health Advisory Committee this month. After working with folks from the BMCC during 2020, to assist with information and briefing material that led to the BMCC adopting the Rights of Nature as a foundational principle, I’m really looking forward to…
Regen Brisbane/Meeanjin and Greenprints – kick off event
On the 29th and 30th July, AELA, NENA, Future Dreaming and QUT co-hosted the kick off event for ‘Regen Brisbane/Meeanjin’. Regen Brisbane/Meeanjin is a network of individuals and organisations exploring how we can work together to make Brisbane a regenerative city. Inspired by the work of ‘Regen Melbourne’ and now part of a growing network…