Today has been declared by modern humans to be ‘Earth Day’. Which is lovely, but also a bit strange, because surely as Earthlings, every day is Earth day. As I watch people around the world launch events, share discussions and post many (many) promotional messages and images on social media platforms to celebrate this ‘event’,…
Working on ‘Future Law’ with Mary Graham
If you have a hungry brain, like I do – then all food for thought is welcome. From exciting new ideas about sustainability, to uncomfortable provocations embedded in decolonisation, to seeing a photo of an animal or plant I’ve never seen before or being doused in notions that challenge everything I ever thought I knew…
Anthropocene Judgments Project – Futureproofing the Common Law
It’s exciting to see our latest book published and out in the world The Anthropocene Judgments Project (AJP) is the innovative creation of Professor Nicole Rogers, and I was honoured to be a co-editor and assist with her vision. This book is a collection of speculative judgments that, along with accompanying commentaries, pursue a novel…
The Voice Referendum – Polling Day
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” – exploring economics from the ground up
The New Economy Network Australia (NENA) is pleased 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:…