Environment
Environment, Featured, Forests, Green Agenda 2025:2
Reforestation as destruction, in Sarawak
In Sarawak, eucalyptus plantations are replacing biodiverse forests under the guise of "reforestation". Indigenous communities fight to protect their lands while Australia continues to import timber grown on stolen territories. [...]
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... Read MoreDemocracy, Economy, Environment, Green Agenda 2024:3
Growing gardens on the grave of the old world – celebrating community energy
In the light of the rapid dismantling of US democratic institutions, and global certainties that rely on it, it is timely to publish this lightly edited version of a speech Green Institute Executive Director Tim Hollo presented to Totally Renewable Yackandandah [...]
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Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3
Policy fails, but gardens grow
If it has occurred to the members of the Standing Committee on Agriculture that there is nothing to eat on a dead planet, they have chosen not to present that framing to government. Instead, community-based regenerative food advocates have to continue to subvert agribusiness as a form of grass-roots sustainable materialism [...]
Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, 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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Culture, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Social Justice
Bike by bike: a Torres Strait ride revolution
On Waibene/Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, a grassroots movement is transforming how locals move through community, one bike at a time, overcoming the barriers of remoteness to make sustainable transport accessible to First Nations women, mothers, caregivers, and children [...]
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... Read MoreCall for Proposals, Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:2
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 20 December. 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, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:2, Social Justice
Esperance’s struggle: Confronting racism in rural Australia
On a cold wintry evening in June, a group of people, mostly “wadjelas”, whitefellas like me, have gathered within a small, corrugated iron clad building to show support for an Aboriginal community that is under siege. I assume that those attending are, as I am, disappointed by recent events that have exposed the outwardly racist nature of the place we... Read More
Culture, Democracy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:2, Peace, Social Justice, Theory
No regrets
Brad Homewood and Violet CoCo are climate activists and organisers with Extinction Rebellion. They recently served two months in prison for blocking the West Gate Bridge in Naarm/Melbourne to sound the alarm on the climate emergency. [...]
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Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:1
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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