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  • Transition Together’s free step-by-step guide

    What If… we could reimagine our future as thriving, fairer, more resilient and more connected? How could that vision help us to move forward and take practical action towards a better future? Transition Together have just brought out a free step-by-step guide to building a community vision, a great tool for making local change. The…

  • Should we follow Bologna’s model for Participatory Urbanism?

    Is this the big idea all Urbanists should get behind?

  • Overhauling our food system

    This eye-opening report shows how countries could save millions of lives and trillions of dollars by making changes to how we produce food. Our current systems are based on ideas and methods that go back 50 years and do not meet the challenges going forwards, 50 years. We need radical change and fast, to achieve…

  • Melbourne Pollinator Corridor: Restoring Biodiversity in Urban Landscapes

    The Melbourne Pollinator Corridor (MPC), is 8km community-driven wildlife corridor that will link 2 large green patches that run along the Birrarung (Yarra River), Westgate Park and the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. The MPC focusses on native bees and other native pollinating insects, with the aim to bring 18,000 indigenous plants in 200 gardens by…

  • Trees For The Future

    This is a wonderful Org that really deserves our support. Trees For The Future train farmers in agroforestry and sustainable land use – so that they can grow vibrant regional economies, thriving food systems, and a healthier planet. What makes them of particular interest is they are the people on the ground, getting the job…

  • Decoding Density

    I really like competitions like this. Where the banks, the developers and any paid politicians are taken out of the equation and people are free to dream of a better future. Decoding Density was an invitation sent out to everyone, everywhere, encouraging them to envision new possibilities for apartment forms, of six storeys and above,…

  • Bush Heritage Australia

    Another wonderful not-for-profit conservation organisation that protects ecosystems and wildlife across Australia. There are close to 2,000 animals and plants on Australia’s threatened species list. Bush Heritage steps in where they are needed most. On the ground, working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the agricultural sector to make sure any impact is…

  • Solar Power in Marlinja – Outback Australia

    Australia’s first Indigenous-owned solar farm, connected to a power grid, has been officially opened in the remote Northern Territory community of Marlinja. Thanks to this new solar and storage project residents will now be saving over 70% on their electricity bills and that’s going to have a significant impact on their lives. Marlinja’s energy was…

  • GIMBYism – Greenery In My Back Yard (please)

    The future of humanity depends on us working WITH the Environment and embracing it. Not constantly trying to fight it, dominate it, or, as we do in most of our cities, completely obliterate it. GIMBYism is a movement that promotes the idea of MORE GREENERY in our cities, not less. Many of us watch in…

  • Ministry of Imagination Manifesto released as the world goes to the polls.

    Post via: www.robhopkins.net [Download The Manifesto here].  This year, 49% of the world goes to the polls in 64 countries. As Time magazine puts it, “2024 is not just AN election year. It’s perhaps THE election year”. The outcomes of these elections will hugely shape the world and our future, most importantly of all is…

  • Odonata Foundation

    Odonata is an Australian Environmental Organisation that is saving endangered animals and regenerating landscapes, while increasing profitability for landholders. Since its inception, Odonata has protected over 49,000ha of habitat, engaged with 7 First Nations groups, worked with hundreds of businesses, farms, entrepreneurs and citizen scientists. It manages programs for multiple threatened species and has been…

  • Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment

    The author, Grant Ennis, covers a lot of important ground in this book. Most of it is dedicated to showing the reader exactly how we have got into multiple crises and why it feels like we can’t get out of any of them. Much of this can be traced back to Margaret Thatcher and her…