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…
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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…
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…
Meeting the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council
It was a huge honour to be invited to Broome and the Kimberley, to meet with the Martuwarra-Fitzroy River Council, in late June/early July this year. The always remarkable Dr Anne Poelina, invited me to join a ‘Circle of Knowledge’ with other supporters of the Council, at a week of meetings in Broome. It was…
Creating the Greenprints approach
After six years of thinking, researching, collaborating, planning, mapping out, experimenting and talking about the Greenprints approach (and then sketching-out ideas and re-sketching them to be clearer and easier to understand), I’m beyond-excited to launch our gorgeous Greenprints website: www.greenprints.org.au Our deceptively simple website represents the ‘front end’ of years of research, pilot workshops and…