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Call for Proposals, Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:1
On forests – Call for proposals
Our upcoming themed issue focuses on forests and forest struggles across the continent. Send us your abstract or pitch by Friday 29 November. We welcome submissions from Indigenous activists and researchers, forest protectors, scholar-activists, collectives and creatives, and others working with the forest, environmental and ecological justice movements. Green Agenda publishes essays and non-fiction writing with forceful political and theoretical analysis,... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:2
The right to repair
From repair cafés to policy reform, Canberra has been at the forefront of the right to repair movement in so called Australia. In this contribution for Green Agenda, Matthew Rimmer shows how local activists and the ACT Greens have pushed for change, while federal policy trails behind global progress. With other countries now taking the lead, Rimmer calls for the... Read More
Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:2, Social Justice, Theory
Not a commodity, climate justice
A dominant view of climate justice advocates for richer nations to pay developing ones to do the work of “solving” climate change. But this renders climate justice a mere commodity, and perpetuates the longstanding global division of labour, class disparity, and the north-south flow of value. [...]
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Renewable energy: Are optimistic scenarios feasible?
Terry Leahy critically examines Mark Diesendorf and Rod Taylor's The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation, focusing on their arguments for a renewable energy transition and degrowth. Acknowledging the authors' optimism about renewables, Leahy challenges notions of an easy green transition, to argue that radical degrowth is necessary. [...]
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Culture, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:1
My Planet Saving Superpowers
In this reflective essay, writer, activist and farmer Linda Cockburn recounts her 25-year journey attempting to save the world through increasingly dedicated living experiments and community projects. From living off-grid to establishing local food networks. [...]
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Visions & Movements
Our latest issue of Green Agenda, ‘Visions & Movements’ is a testament to the radical imagination and collective experimentations from-below. From visions of alternative urban futures grounded in ecological justice to building material counter-power through everyday practices of growing, making, and sharing, to learning from struggles against state violence and abandonment – the essays show the many ways that our... Read More
Culture, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:1, Social Justice, Virtual Issue
Will we keep cranking up the aircon as we watch the planet burn?
We have conjured up a dark future with our addiction to air-conditioning, but as we enjoy our dream lifestyle, this luxury is cooking the planet and sentencing the poorest and most disadvantaged to a nightmare of cooling poverty. [...]
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Solid swings but not many ward wins – unpacking the results of the 2024 Brisbane City Council election
Well it’s six days since the council election, and the last few postal votes are being scrutinised closely, with the Greens frustratingly close to winning in a couple of different electorates both in Brissie and elsewhere in South-East Queensland. Across Brisbane’s 26 wards, the Greens primary vote has grown by a very healthy 5.2% on average, to 23%. (There’s a few percentage points difference... Read More
Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:3 - Visions & Movements, Virtual Issue
Feet, bikes, busses and trains, not electric cars
Australia faces massive problems with our transport system. We have some of the most spread-out cities in the world, and huge distances between major population hubs as well. We have in turn become a car-dominated society, with public policy focused heavily on building more and more expensive and complicated road infrastructure – just look at the disaster of the Rozelle... Read More
Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:3 - Visions & Movements, Social Justice, Theory, Virtual Issue
Sustainable materialism as political action
Are these kinds of movements the solution to all of our troubles? Absolutely not. Do the mainly white western environmental activists doing this work think it’s everything? Of course not. But are sustainable materialist movements politically valuable? Absolutely. For this project I wanted to examine positive everyday practices, possibilities already being lived, grounded imaginaries, visions for a future that are... Read More
