Green Agenda 2024:3
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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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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 [...]
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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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Negotiating left politics in Sri Lanka: The NPP in government
Sri Lanka’s left-wing National People’s Power (NPP) coalition secured historic electoral victories in 2024, winning both the presidency and a two-thirds parliamentary majority. A victory marking the first time a formerly insurgent political force has gained state power through democratic means in the country. But as the National People’s Power coalition settles into government, their anti-corruption platform and middle-class appeal... Read More
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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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