Graeme George is part of the Permaculture Educators Guild, a professional guild formed by a group of permaculture educators in Victoria in 2014 to advance permaculture education in south-eastern Australia and beyond. Though based in Victoria its focus is the south-eastern Australian bioregion, not limited by State boundaries. Key purposes of the Guild are : • collaborative development of a “Syllabus for Permaculture Design in South-eastern Australia”, making it available as a model for other bio...
Jul 11, 2020•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rowan Reid runs Bambra Agroforestry Farm in the Otways of Victoria, a 42-hectare outdoor classroom for farmers, scientists, students and tree lovers, and a living laboratory for his own learning. A Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne for decades, he also decided to try out the science in practice and started Bambra over 30 years ago, now growing more than 50 specialist timber species. In his new book “Heartwood: The art and science of growing trees for conservation and profit” Rowan u...
Jul 11, 2020•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast The organisation of trade, including our money system, is a primary source of many of the crises we are facing. What can we do about it? What are the old and new ideas that are around? We invited Matthew Slater to Speak at the CoCanberra / NENA Canberra Region monthly meetup in July 2020. Matthew Slater has been around the Mutual Credit scene for many years. He Co-founded one of the successful software platforms (Community Forge - https://communityforge.net/en ), taught about currencies through ...
Jul 03, 2020•2 hr 51 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Peoples Assembly (PCA) is a coalition from a wide cross-section of climate and environmental groups who are working together towards the same goal: to help save our environment and ensure a renewable and sustainable future for all. Our mission is to raise our voices as a collective to demand that the Australian Government declare a climate and ecological emergency NOW and take real and urgent action to protect our future. John Wurcker joined BTL tohave a yarn about the peoples climate assemb...
Jun 26, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Organic and Regenerative Investment Co-operative (ORICoop) is travelling 5 pathways: Preservation: to protect, preserve and enhance farmland and businesses that produce organic food in a sustainable and regeneratively farmed manner Education: to provide educational pathways & career opportunities, that enable more people to be explore a career in organic & regenerative agriculture and food production Community: to collectively enable people to engage & prosper for more connected communities,...
Jun 12, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Food Co-op in Canberra has been around for decades. Located on the campus of the Australian National University, the Co-op provides top quality foods, many direct from the farmers, at affordable prices. There is also a busy cafe, and the Co-op hosts many meetings and events in the evenings. Owned by its members, it is run by several part time co-managers and a vast horde of volunteers. The Food Co-op Shop also hosts CoCanberra's monthly meetups, for which we are eternally grateful! Karina Ve...
Jun 05, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast CAPAD works to make democracy more than just a buzzword with an election every 4 years or so..... You can often find them holding those elected to account, or exploring ways democracy could be done better. Peter Tait joined CoCanberra at our meetup in in May 2019. Find out more at https://canberra-alliance.org.au/ 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 gi...
Jun 05, 2020•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Green Connect farm is one of the country’s leading examples of urban agriculture. It is an 11-acre urban farm that uses permaculture and organic principles to produce fruit, vegetables, herbs, eggs, honey and free-range meat. The farm is located on land behind Warrawong High School. They have been developing the farm in order to: - Create more jobs and employment pathways in a region with too few - Fully utilise the land, activating the farm as a space in which the community can engage - Exp...
May 29, 2020•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Living Classroom has a 16-year history, seeded in the Illawarra region of NSW by Daniel Deighton and Aaron Sorensen who developed the program within Cringila Public School in 2003. The program’s success was then further supported by the development of the permaculture partnership within the Illawarra where local business, organisations, and council supported the programs implementation within the Warrawong Community of schools. This now includes a range of schools from primary through to ter...
May 29, 2020•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Enova Energy - Steve Harris - Bad Sound - 2016 - 03 - 11 by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
May 29, 2020•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Community Power Agency - Nicky Ison - 2015-08-14 BTL by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
May 22, 2020•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Intergenerational Entreprenuerism - Open Space Session - NENA2018 by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
May 22, 2020•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Education in the New Economy - P Jones S Grimstead A Horton - NENA2018 by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
May 22, 2020•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ethical Fashion - S.Edwards N.Gbor K.Donovan B.Wheeler 2019-04-19 BTL by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
May 15, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast First Nations Care And Management Of The Commons - Aunty Mary Graham NENA2018 by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
May 15, 2020•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Co - Operative Power - Godfrey Moase - 2019 - 09 - 23 Poor Sound At Start - BTL by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
May 08, 2020•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joe Hill And The Wobblies - Humphrey Mcqueen - 2015 - 11 - 11 BTL by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
May 01, 2020•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dave Southgate On Community Solar - SEE - Change Event 2018 BTL by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
Apr 24, 2020•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lyneham Commons - Meg Clarke - Sue Peachey - 2015 - 11 - 06 BTL by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
Apr 24, 2020•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Home Schooling 2018 - 12 - 21 BTL by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
Apr 17, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Race Mathews - Co - Operative History In Australia - 2018 - 10 - 18 BTL by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams
Apr 10, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ghillar, also known as Michael Anderson is from the Euahlayi people on the borderlands of NSW and QLD. He was involved in the Black Power movement in the 60s and 70s, co-established the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. He is fully fluent in both Euahlayi and White law, and has been all over the world researching, connecting with other First Nations, and painstakingly discovering and establishing the legal course to Sovereignty. He has taught in many universities, and is Coordinator of the interim Nation...
Mar 13, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the wake of what is considered to be the worst bushfire disaster in Australia’s memory, affected communities and individuals are still frantically picking up the pieces of their lives, often struggling to meet their most basic needs. When disaster strikes, the supports you traditionally rely on can fall devastatingly short. Electricity. Food. Shelter. Communications. Where do you turn as the longer struggle begins? Today we are exploring some of the remarkable community responses that have ar...
Mar 06, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast After the Arab Spring, Kurdish forces took control of North-East Syria, known as Rojava – or western Kurdistan in the Kurdish language. They began implementing a radically democratic system of governance. Each locality is independent, while under a regional constitution guaranteeing wide ranging freedoms. Each sub community in a locality – women, ethnic groups, youth, etc – are asked to organise themselves, and are given an equal voice in the local organising meetings. If the decision is about a...
Mar 02, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast These recordings were made by Radio Behind the Lines, at the Green Institutes 2019 conference. The Green Institute is an Australian non-profit organisation, their mission being to “support green politics through education, action, research and debate“. Green politics means broad community-wide change grounded in the principles of ecology, social justice, democracy, non-violence, sustainability and respect for diversity. With ecological breakdown underway, inequality spiralling, colonialism and p...
Dec 13, 2019•2 hr 36 min•Transcript available on Metacast These recordings were made by Radio Behind the Lines, at the Green Institutes 2019 conference. The Green Institute is an Australian non-profit organisation, their mission being to “support green politics through education, action, research and debate“. Green politics means broad community-wide change grounded in the principles of ecology, social justice, democracy, non-violence, sustainability and respect for diversity. With ecological breakdown underway, inequality spiralling, colonialism and p...
Dec 13, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Transcript available on Metacast These recordings were made by Radio Behind the Lines, at the Green Institutes 2019 conference. The Green Institute is an Australian non-profit organisation, their mission being to “support green politics through education, action, research and debate“. Green politics means broad community-wide change grounded in the principles of ecology, social justice, democracy, non-violence, sustainability and respect for diversity. With ecological breakdown underway, inequality spiralling, colonialism and p...
Dec 13, 2019•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast These recordings were made by Radio Behind the Lines, at the Green Institutes 2019 conference. The Green Institute is an Australian non-profit organisation, their mission being to “support green politics through education, action, research and debate“. Green politics means broad community-wide change grounded in the principles of ecology, social justice, democracy, non-violence, sustainability and respect for diversity. With ecological breakdown underway, inequality spiralling, colonialism and p...
Dec 13, 2019•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast As Australian politics continues its scramble to open up vast new coal mines and drive the world towards a climate change catastrophe, the Adani mine in the Carmichael basin of Queensland has begun clearing land for its mine, endangered species and all. We talk to some of the players who are at the cutting edge of climate activism about how we can stop the juggernaut and institute a better, saner way of living. Extinction Rebellion asserts the people of the worlds right to exist into the future,...
Aug 13, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Imagineering, or Envisioning, is a technique which enables a community to imagine the best possible future for itself. Once a vision for the community is established, they can then set about figuring out how to get there. Transition Canberra and the New Economy Network of Australia's Canberra Regional Hub independently wound up hosting envisioning type events within a fortnight of one another. We had them both in for a yarn about what they were up to. This work is licensed under the Creative Com...
Jun 01, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
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