Extinction Rebellion has grown from a small outfit in the UK to an international movement in a matter of months. Alongside the powerful School Strike 4 Climate they have been credited with the UKs recent announcement of a Climate Emergency. Australia has a number of XR chapters opening up across the country. Behind the Lines spoke with the organiser of one of these recently formed chapters.
The Bob Brown Foundation launhced a convoy which went from Hobart up to the depths of coal mining country in outback Queensland, holding rallies along the way. They returned to Canberra for a big rally at Parliament House which drew about 5000 people. Behind the Lines caught up with a few of the folks who had been on the convoy just after the Canberra rally, to have a yarn about how it had gone.
The Builders Laborers Federation was a union in Australia, representing those workers without a trade who did all the hard yards on the building site. Through their strong community links, they heard lots about the effects of inappropriate development on normal folks, and came up with the "Green Ban" as a response. They simply refused to work on projects that were socially or environmentally damaging. The effects of the Green Bans are still around today - the historic district of the rocks in Sy...
The School Strike 4 Climate is an international movement run by school students. Today we have Maeve and Indy, who are part of the Canberra contingent, to have a yarn about what is going on, and why. Inspired by the bold, lone strike action of Greta Thunberg on the steps of parliament in Sweden, the idea has spread to all continents. Find the strike map here: https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/events/map Many groups are going out every Friday, with periodic global events, such as the one on March ...
The locals in mainly Kurdish Northern Syria, or Rojava (western Kurdistan) have managed, since the Assad regime lost control of the area, to implement a bottom-up "Democratic Confederal" structure - designed largely by Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the kurdish marxist rebel group PKK, who has been imprisoned in a Turkish prison for decades. The system was inspired in part by the writings of Murray Bookchin, founder of the Social Ecology movement. Democratically run militias from the area have c...
The bHive Cooperative is a community owned person-to-person sharing economy platform being developed for Bendigo. Behind the Lines dropped in and talked with Ian McBurney and Clare Fountain. The system builds on a personalised "Village", providing each member with an assortment of Commons which they can use to develop their community and reduce their cost of living. On top of that bHive will build a network of co-operative enterprises, providing work and keeping wealth circulating i the local ec...
Logging continues throughout NSW, comissioned by the state government. The Regional Forest Agreement signed 20 years ago that has been feeding the Eden woodchip mill with our forests ever since is up for renewal. Hear from 2 south coast communities who have recently encountered logging of their home turf, at Corruna and Mogo.
Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia, or CORENA provides a practical and effective way for ‘the people’ to collectively fund new renewable energy installations NOW instead of just waiting on government action. Our solar funding model (revolving loan fund) enables all of us who want a rapid transition to renewable energy to chip in and collectively help pay for practical renewable energy projects. Small amounts of money from LOTS of people can reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emission...
Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia, or CORENA provides a practical and effective way for ‘the people’ to collectively fund new renewable energy installations NOW instead of just waiting on government action. Our solar funding model (revolving loan fund) enables all of us who want a rapid transition to renewable energy to chip in and collectively help pay for practical renewable energy projects. Small amounts of money from LOTS of people can reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emission...
Mud Fun blends the construction sciences (architecture, engineering and building) with the cultural performing arts (music, dance, theatrics) to produce a functional structure with full community participation in the process of its creation. This is even better than it sounds - check out the website at https://www.mudfunaustralia.com/
Getting good things done needs collaboration, collaboration needs communication and communication needs connectivity. That’s why connectivity is the theme of this year’s Australasian Permaculture Convergence. Between 15 – 19 April 2018 we met in southern NSW to improve our connectivity. Community Radio 2XX 98.3FM's Behind the Lines was there and recorded what it could of the talks and workshops for your listening pleasure! These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Ali...
Getting good things done needs collaboration, collaboration needs communication and communication needs connectivity. That’s why connectivity is the theme of this year’s Australasian Permaculture Convergence. Between 15 – 19 April 2018 we met in southern NSW to improve our connectivity. Community Radio 2XX 98.3FM's Behind the Lines was there and recorded what it could of the talks and workshops for your listening pleasure! These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Ali...
Getting good things done needs collaboration, collaboration needs communication and communication needs connectivity. That’s why connectivity is the theme of this year’s Australasian Permaculture Convergence. Between 15 – 19 April 2018 we met in southern NSW to improve our connectivity. Community Radio 2XX 98.3FM's Behind the Lines was there and recorded what it could of the talks and workshops for your listening pleasure! These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Ali...
Getting good things done needs collaboration, collaboration needs communication and communication needs connectivity. That’s why connectivity is the theme of this year’s Australasian Permaculture Convergence. Between 15 – 19 April 2018 we met in southern NSW to improve our connectivity. Community Radio 2XX 98.3FM's Behind the Lines was there and recorded what it could of the talks and workshops for your listening pleasure! These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Ali...
Getting good things done needs collaboration, collaboration needs communication and communication needs connectivity. That’s why connectivity is the theme of this year’s Australasian Permaculture Convergence. Between 15 – 19 April 2018 we met in southern NSW to improve our connectivity. Community Radio 2XX 98.3FM's Behind the Lines was there and recorded what it could of the talks and workshops for your listening pleasure! These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Ali...
Getting good things done needs collaboration, collaboration needs communication and communication needs connectivity. That’s why connectivity is the theme of this year’s Australasian Permaculture Convergence. Between 15 – 19 April 2018 we met in southern NSW to improve our connectivity. Community Radio 2XX 98.3FM's Behind the Lines was there and recorded what it could of the talks and workshops for your listening pleasure! These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Ali...
Getting good things done needs collaboration, collaboration needs communication and communication needs connectivity. That’s why connectivity is the theme of this year’s Australasian Permaculture Convergence. Between 15 – 19 April 2018 we met in southern NSW to improve our connectivity. Community Radio 2XX 98.3FM's Behind the Lines was there and recorded what it could of the talks and workshops for your listening pleasure! These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Ali...
The arrival of the climate crisis, sharply deepening inequality, the rise of the extreme right, and massively accelerating technological development make the next 25 years among the most pivotal in human history to date. If we don’t change direction dramatically, we face a future that is nasty, brutish and short. We have a very brief window to turn this around and create a society that can not only survive but thrive. Ecology teaches us that everything is connected, and that everything and every...
The arrival of the climate crisis, sharply deepening inequality, the rise of the extreme right, and massively accelerating technological development make the next 25 years among the most pivotal in human history to date. If we don’t change direction dramatically, we face a future that is nasty, brutish and short. We have a very brief window to turn this around and create a society that can not only survive but thrive. Ecology teaches us that everything is connected, and that everything and every...
The arrival of the climate crisis, sharply deepening inequality, the rise of the extreme right, and massively accelerating technological development make the next 25 years among the most pivotal in human history to date. If we don’t change direction dramatically, we face a future that is nasty, brutish and short. We have a very brief window to turn this around and create a society that can not only survive but thrive. Ecology teaches us that everything is connected, and that everything and every...
The arrival of the climate crisis, sharply deepening inequality, the rise of the extreme right, and massively accelerating technological development make the next 25 years among the most pivotal in human history to date. If we don’t change direction dramatically, we face a future that is nasty, brutish and short. We have a very brief window to turn this around and create a society that can not only survive but thrive. Ecology teaches us that everything is connected, and that everything and every...
The 14th Australasian Permaculture convergence is happening in Canberra from the free Permaculture Festival at Canberra City Farm on the 15th April 2018, through 4 days of conference, and winding up with regional tours and further courses. Wondering what permaculture is all about? This interview is a primer for the convergence, with organisers Cally Brennan and Katy Bates, and with Danny OBrien from Canberra City Farm. 2XX will be at the convergence throughout, and will bring you all the speaker...
The arrival of the climate crisis, sharply deepening inequality, the rise of the extreme right, and massively accelerating technological development make the next 25 years among the most pivotal in human history to date. If we don’t change direction dramatically, we face a future that is nasty, brutish and short. We have a very brief window to turn this around and create a society that can not only survive but thrive. Ecology teaches us that everything is connected, and that everything and every...
The arrival of the climate crisis, sharply deepening inequality, the rise of the extreme right, and massively accelerating technological development make the next 25 years among the most pivotal in human history to date. If we don’t change direction dramatically, we face a future that is nasty, brutish and short. We have a very brief window to turn this around and create a society that can not only survive but thrive. Ecology teaches us that everything is connected, and that everything and every...
Shareable is the most widely read journal of the "sharing economy". https://www.shareable.net/ Through their work they have amassed many case studies, and really got to know their stuff. Through their "sharing cities" program they have been building networks around the globe of new ways for cities and regions to meet their needs, reducing human dependence on an extractive economy to simply live. Shareable has now released their book - Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons. Darren Sharp, t...
Tom Nockolds and Kevin Cox outline a renewable energy cooperative being developed by Pingala Energy Co-op and Coops Commons and Communities Canberra. The model is intended to be a local, readily repeatable co-op, with a unique funding method. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. To give attribution for this work, include the URL of this page.
The arrival of the climate crisis, sharply deepening inequality, the rise of the extreme right, and massively accelerating technological development make the next 25 years among the most pivotal in human history to date. If we don’t change direction dramatically, we face a future that is nasty, brutish and short. We have a very brief window to turn this around and create a society that can not only survive but thrive. Ecology teaches us that everything is connected, and that everything and every...
Southern Harvest is a business and community led organisation focused on growing local and regional food communities in the ACT and South East NSW We spoke to Penny Koethe. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. To give attribution for this work, include the URL of this page.
Earthworker is establishing a network of worker-owned cooperatives committed to sustainable enterprise throughout Australia. They believe social and environmental exploitation are intertwined, and that the problems of climate change, job insecurity and growing inequality must be tackled simultaneously, through greater grassroots economic ownership. They have already established Redgum, a worker owned cleaners co-operative in Melbourne, and are in the final stages of establishing the Earthworker ...
Earthworker is establishing a network of worker-owned cooperatives committed to sustainable enterprise throughout Australia. They believe social and environmental exploitation are intertwined, and that the problems of climate change, job insecurity and growing inequality must be tackled simultaneously, through greater grassroots economic ownership. In 2015 we caught up with Anna Boddenberg from Earthworker Find out more about Earthworker at http://earthworkercooperative.com.au/ This work is lice...
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