Environment
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Net Zero Cities
Highlighting some of the positive transformations that can happen in our cities as we move towards Net Zero.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Grace Petrie – Fixer Upper
I wanted to write a longer post about this song as I felt sharing it on https://mastodon.world/@OWGF and saying “this is great,” didn’t really capture how much I love it and why. Fixer Upper by Grace Petrie is to me the ultimate #SolarPunk anthem and the anthem for this blog too. https://genius.com/Grace-petrie-fixer-upper-lyrics At its heart…
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Vulture Capitalism
To create a Wonderful Green Future, first it helps to understand how we got into multiple crises and what it will take to dig us out of them. This book by Grace Blakeley does just that. It’s easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an…
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The World’s First Forest City
Here’s an interesting project, imagining a Forest City of the future in Gabon, Central Africa, a country rich for its forests, rivers and biodiversity. Like all developing countries, their challenge is to decide whether they want to follow the principles of industrial cities or they want invent an ecological model that attracts talented people and…
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Retro Suburbia: How to build Solar Punk Suburbs
If anyone is wondering, “How the hell do we convert our cities of consumerism, concrete and fossil fuels into solar punk communities?” then this book should be on your reading list. Its, almost 600, pages are divided into three main sections: the Built, the Biological and the Behavioural, along with an introductory section ‘Setting the…
Our Wonderful Green Future 