Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEST, Thursday 7 August 2025 In the week the world marks 80 years since nuclear weapons were unleashed on the world with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Green Institute’s Missing Peace series continues with a webinar asking “where… Read More
If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Also, an auto-reminder went out ONCE with the wrong Zoom link for an old event. Please… Read More
U3A Canberra Northside invited Tim to present on the challenges to democracy and possibilities for reinventing it, expanding on the themes in Living Democracy. You can read the speech here.
Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Thursday 5 December 2024 Nonviolent protest is central to democratic rights and change-making. As we have been exploring through The Missing Peace, we know it works to create real, lasting, significant change, even in the direst circumstances. One of… Read More
Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Wednesday 6 November 2024 View Professor Yin Paradies’ Powerpoint Presentation slides. First Nations understandings of understandings of peace and security, violence and nonviolence, relationality and entanglement, have so much to teach us as we grapple with The… Read More
Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Nonviolence is about a willingness to appreciate… Read More
Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Can nonviolence really make change? Can it… Read More
Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence We need to talk about peace and nonviolence. Urgently. Webinar: 8pm AEST, Wednesday 7 August 2024 The language of peace is starkly missing from politics. And the practices of nonviolence, from the interpersonal to the global, are less and less part… Read More
We need to talk about peace and nonviolence. Urgently. In an increasingly unstable and volatile world, facing the climate crisis, the rise of the extreme right’s politics of hate and exclusion, spiralling economic inequality, and rampant misinformation, it is deeply troubling that commitment to nonviolence as a strategy, a tactic,… Read More
If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Webinar: 8pm AEST, Tuesday 9 July 2024 What does transformative Greens policy and politics look… Read More
OK, this is genuinely exciting! As something of a democracy obsessive (have you noticed? But more and more of us are, given the state of the world today), I get to talk about democracy with some fantastic people pretty regularly. Just in the last week, I’ve had the privilege of… Read More
Engage in lively conversations and collaborative problem-solving—this is living democracy. Join Tim Hollo for this Hobsons Bay Libraries event part of the National Sustainable Living Festival 2024. Despite global challenges, Tim Hollo’s Living Democracy offers bold ideas for positive change. The narrative challenges the notion that it’s the end of the… Read More
In Melbourne? Join this cross-branch workshop exploring how to sow community connections and grow thriving campaigns. 10am-4pm2 March, 2024Edinburgh Gardens Community RoomFitzroy VIC 3065 Guided by principles from his inspiring book ‘Living Democracy’, the Green Institute’s Tim Hollo will lead a collaborative conversation… Read More
Tim Hollo will be speaking at this year’s NENA (New Economy Network Australia) Conference in Canberra. It’s been said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. But today’s climate change, environmental decline and social justice challenges are forcing… Read More
Tim Hollo is speaking at Happiness And Its Causes in Sydney, one of the world’s leading conferences on human happiness and wellbeing. How should we live, work and care for others?How can we be happy?What brings meaning and joy to our lives?How can… Read More
Hosted by Rising Tide and Emma Davidson MLA Buy tickets here. When: 6:15pm to 8:45pm Sunday 22 OctoberWhere: Polish White Eagle Club38 David StTurner ACT 2612 You are warmly invited to a screening of the epic doco The Bentley Effect. Enjoy a night with friends celebrating… Read More
PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ANU LAW REFORM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE – FOLLOWED BY PANEL DISCUSSION More info here. Exasperated and out of options, a group of eight environmental activists plan an act of sabotage to stop a pipeline in West Texas, which could disrupt the global… Read More
If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Fresh from approving her first coal mine, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is pushing the Labor… Read More
Meanjin / Brisbane and online, Aug 18/19, Griffith University, South Bank Green Institute Conference 2023Meanjin / Brisbane and onlineFriday 18 August & Saturday 19Griffith University, South Bank If you are tuning in online and have registered yet haven’t received your Zoom link please text… Read More
If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! To speak of change today conjures up images of high-tech gadgetry and low carbon infrastructures… Read More
The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other’s ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching and chanting in protest. This is living democracy. Yes, the world looks bleak. Across our society there’s a mounting sense of… Read More
Hosted by Central Coast Greens. We’re acutely aware of how fragile democracy is on the Central Coast, after a forced amalgamation and then the sacking of our elected councillors. We face the consequences of the climate emergency through bushfires, floods and sea storms. Many people travel… Read More
In Adelaide? Join us for a very special, very delicious pre-WOMAD breakfast with Mandy Nolan who’s in town for the Adelaide Fringe for her comedy show ‘Women Like Us’. A stand up comedian for well over 28 years, audiences adore Mandy on stage, but this intimate breakfast will delve into… Read More
Join us for drinks at Small Time as Melbourne celebrates the launch of Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it, the new book from writer and Greens activist Tim Hollo. 6.30pm, Thursday 20 October, 2022Small Time, 271-273… Read More
Hosted by the Food Connect Foundation 3.30pm for a 4pm startSunday 25 September, 2022Food Connect Shed8 Textile Crescent, Salisbury, Queensland Get tickets here. Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it, is the new book from… Read More
Join author Tim Hollo in conversation with a special guest to be announced at the Tathra Hotel. 7pm, Friday 9 September, 2022Tathra Hotel & Motel8-12 Bega St, Tathra NSW 2550, Australia Get tickets here. The way we glow when having a great conversation, building… Read More
Join us in conversation with Tim Hollo, Executive Director of The Green Institute and author of the newly published book Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it. Tim will be joined by Shane Rattenbury & Dr Arnagretta Hunter. Register… Read More
Join us in conversation with Tim Hollo, Executive Director of The Green Institute and author of the newly published book Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it. Tim will be joined by new SA Greens Senator, Barbara Pocock, and Assoc Prof Peter… Read More
Hosted by Blue Mountains Greens. Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it, is the new book from Tim Hollo, Executive Director of The Green Institute and former Greens candidate. Join the Blue Mountains Greens in conversation with… Read More
Tim Hollo is part of the Bryon Writers Festival line-up. A highly regarded environmentalist, community builder and musician, Tim Hollo is Executive Director of the Green Institute, where he leads research and discussions around issues such as ecological politics, deep democracy, rights of nature, and… Read More
With book author Tim Hollo in conversation with Abigail Boyd MLC and Professor Danielle Celermajer. Discover full event details at Gleebooks. 6pm-9pm, Friday 12 August, 2022
The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other’s ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching and chanting in protest. This is living democracy. Join us in conversation with Tim Hollo, Executive Director of The Green Institute… Read More
Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Wednesday 9 February 2022 Almost two years ago, in a snap webinar days after Australia went into our first lockdown, the Green Institute hosted the first public conversation in Australia to discuss how we stay together while keeping apart. Two years on, what have we learned? What… Read More
Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Monday 8 November 2021 In the toxic wasteland that is Australia’s climate politics, it’s sometimes easy to forget that, ten years ago, we had a historic win! Join us to mark this anniversary at a very special online event featuring three of the key players, Christine Milne,… Read More
Can we imagine a future where income support payments in Australia are permanently made unconditional? The Covid response helps us do so – and it’s a brighter future! Webinar: 8pm AEDT, Wednesday 27 October 2021 When the Covid pandemic sent Australia into lockdown in 2020, the Federal Government was pushed… Read More
As Greens, we have a vision to change the world, for a more just and sustainable future. But what makes Green politics different from the old ways? Our vision isn’t just about the outcomes we want, but about the process we use to get there. Many of us are mobilised… Read More
The Greens have always believed in working together for peace. We’ve always understood that protecting people and the planet from the horrors of war takes the steady work of cooperation, building mutual respect, fostering connections between peoples, and putting in the effort to understand each other. That’s why the Morrison… Read More
All of a sudden, momentum is swiftly building to introduce a global crime of ecocide, alongside genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity – making severe, widespread and long-lasting environmental destruction illegal under international law. Webinar: 6pm AEST, Thursday 29 July 2021 (not our usual time of 8pm). A few… Read More
When the Australian Government tried to push through the news media bargaining code earlier in the year, the Australian public faced the power of big digital platforms first hand. Facebook banned any pages in the country that fit under the broadest definition of ‘news’ imaginable, blocking not just the pages… Read More
If you are registered for tonight’s webinar and you haven’t received your Zoom link, please text Elissa 0418 786 986 and she will send it to you. However, please check your spam/junk folder first. Thanks! Scott Ludlam and Danielle Celermajer discuss the fires, the future, interdependence, and their new books. Read More
If you have registered, you will have received a Zoom link email at the time you registered. You will also have received a reminder email including the Zoom link at around 3.22pm AEDT this afternoon (Wednesday 10 February). If you have registered and haven’t received the Zoom link via email… Read More
The ongoing effects of Covid-19 continue around Australia and our region. On every front – politically, economically, culturally – life seems to have become more difficult. The economic and social fallout will be long-lasting, and most keenly felt by those who were already struggling. At the same time, the… Read More
The image of Homo Economicus underpins the ubiquity of neo-classical economics, delineating the possibilities of exchange for humans conceived as rational and self-interested beings. How does growing awareness of our ecological entanglements with human and more-than-human beings invite a reimagining of our economies, societies and political systems? Miss this event? Watch… Read More
The coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to reevaluate and reset our political conversation. One of the most obvious fault lines is over climate action and fossil fuels, with governments using the cover of the pandemic to push forward with… Read More
Speakers: Roj Amedi, Tim Hollo, Amanda Tattersall and Godfrey Moase The pandemic has disrupted business as usual, opening up the potential for different futures. Everything is being Reset… How things unfold from here is up to us. Join four of the curators of the… Read More
The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. What does that mean for Scott Morrison’s “laser-like focus on jobs”, and the planned economic recovery being driven by a corporate agenda? Can we, at a… Read More
The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. It has also introduced huge numbers of people to ideas of mutual aid, anarchist organising, and participatory commons-based community building. For this webinar, we are delighted… Read More
The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing challenges and injustices and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. In the earliest days of Australia’s lockdown, the Commission For The Human Future… Read More
If you have bought a ticket and haven’t received your Zoom link via email (check spam first!) please request the link by texting Elissa 0418 786 986 with your full name and your email address. Ta! Enjoy a night of online games, theatre, stories, poetry, music and song while sitting… Read More
The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. There are extraordinary signs, at the local and the global level, that communities are ready to make a tremendous shift. The political response to this crisis,… Read More
The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. Around the world, there’s a growing sense that Universal Basic Income could be an important part of how we make our societies more democratic, more fair,… Read More
There’s a gaping wound at the heart of Australian democracy – the genocide and dispossession of the first peoples of this land. The Coronavirus pandemic both lays bare deep and ongoing injustices in our society and provides a moment to re-evaluate and reset our political conversation. It’s vital that we… Read More
Snap Webinar: Staying Together While Keeping Apart Apologies to those trying to register. The Webinar, capped at 100, is now SOLD OUT! However, f you would like to receive a video recording of the Webinar please sign up to receive our email updates. How do we keep working for… Read More
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 – WITH APOLOGIES The Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act has, throughout its history, facilitated developments as the expense of ecologies across the continent, enabling environmental destruction on a grand scale. And yet, the Morrison Government has framed this year’s statutory review as an… Read More
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 – WITH APOLOGIES What would it look like if climate activism acknowledged that our existing democratic norms and institutions will not deliver the scale and pace of change necessary and are also fundamentally ill-suited to enabling human survival as ecologies collapse? How might we develop a… Read More
Book your ticket now. In the midst of our climate emergency this interactive panel will talk boldly on why a healthy democracy matters, the key signs that tell us we need to improve our democracy, and big… Read More
Attending tonight? Didn’t receive the Zoom link? Text/call Elissa 0418 786 986 or email elissa.jenkins@greeninstitute.org.au Environmental Protection Laws After The Fires: Learn About The EPBC Act Review And How To Make A Submission. This summer has changed everything. We are now living in the age of climate consequences, and,… Read More
Democracy – it’s always been incomplete, compromised and fragile, but today our democratic systems and institutions are under threat like never before. With ecological breakdown underway, inequality spiralling, colonialism and patriarchy still not dismantled, and the hate-fuelled far right on the rise, we desperately need democracies which… Read More
Be sure to come along to this Green Institute Webinar with Reinhard Butikofer MEP who is the European Greens Party Co-chair and MEP for the German Green party Bündnis90/Die Grünen. Last month’s European elections saw another surge towards the Greens, leaping from 50 to 74 seats in the European… Read More
In this seminar, Towards Ecological Democracy – A Political Theory For The 21st Century, Green Institute Executive Director, Tim Hollo, will present a theory of ecological democracy which seeks to apply the fundamentals of ecology to politics, articulating a vision of interconnection, interdependence, and resilience in diversity. Read More
Jane R. Goodall’s The Politics Of The Common Good: Dispossession In Australia – Book Launch & Panel Discussion Panel with Professor Bronwen Morgan & Tim Hollo To be introduced by Dr. Stephanie Dowrick ‘The Earth is a Common Treasury’, proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of… Read More
Green Institute Executive Director Tim Hollo will be co-presenting – with Prof. Bronwen Morgan from University of NSW – a webinar hosted by the New Economics Network Australia, on the Green New Deal. It will be a considered and critical look at what the implications of… Read More
Date & Time: 1:30 pm–4:30 pm, Saturday 13 October, 2018 Location: Room 1, Ainslie Arts Centre, Elouera Street, Canberra, ACT 2612 BOOK TICKETS NOW We’re co-hosting an exciting event with See Change and Urban Synergies Group on Making Canberra a Human-Centred City. Come along and… Read More
Date & Time: 8pm-9.30pm, Tuesday 7 Aug, 2018. Location: Online via Zoom UBI is a conversation we need to have together, so we’ve put together three “Conversation Starter” papers, so you can host a conversation on Universal Basic Income at your local Greens branch or in your local community. Read More
Date & Time: 8pm-9:30pm, Wednesday 23 May, 2018 Location: Online via Zoom Do you find yourself, having read Towards Ecological Democracy, wanting to talk about it? Are there points you strongly agree with or disagree with? Are there ideas you want to explore further? On May 23, at 8pm… Read More
Date & Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, April 18, 2018. Location: Griffith University EcoCentre, Building N68, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan Free event! RSVP ESSENTIAL. Please email dominic.jarvis@griffith.edu.au to RSVP. Refreshments provided. Free parking information for the evening available here. The Commonwealth of Nations… Read More
Book launch, panel and open conversation. Book your ticket now! Date & Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm, April 10, 2018. Location: ANU Food Co-op; 3 Kingsley St; Canberra. View the event flyer. Come and hear what’s going on, what others are doing around the world, and what… Read More
A Common Good: Democratic Futures for People + Planet Join Tim Hollo, Executive Director of the Green Institute, and Professor Stuart Rees, Council for Social Justice, Syd. Uni, in a discussion about the importance of changing the system to a focus on the common good, “grounded… Read More
Building A Green Politics For The Next 25 Years Old Parliament House, Canberra, Friday and Saturday, October 27-28, 2017 2017 marks 25 years since the federation of the Australian Greens – a quarter century in which the party has gone from being a fringe movement to… Read More
Did you know that Andrew Barr wants to weaken the restrictions on billboard advertising in Canberra? The fact that we have so few billboards is one of the truly special things about this city. Help us keep in that way! “Advertising at its best is making people feel that, without… Read More
WELA 2017 The leadership program for women environmentalists The Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) program is a first for Australia – a leadership program designed by and for women environmentalists. The first WELA program in 2016 was such a success that we have been inspired to offer it again in… Read More
