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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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Beyond the far-right
Seeing the rise of the far-right through the lens of anti-establishment sentiment reveals why current strategies fail. Mainstream responses that defend the political order or adopt right-wing positions will only accelerate their decline. [...]
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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 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, 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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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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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
