NEW TIME FOR FINAL EARTH ECONOMICS WEBINAR - RESCHEDULED DUE TO CYCLONE ALFRED!!

Join us Thursday 17 April for the final webinar in our 'Earth Economics Week'.
Our week was interrupted in March by Cyclone Alfred, so please do join us for

Thursday 17 April - 6.30pm to 7.30pm AEST

'Can a Wellbeing Economy Save the Planet?', with Katherine Trebeck, Co-founder of Wellbeing Economy Alliance International

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Please join the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), New Economy Network Australia (NENA) and Future Dreaming for 'Earth Economics Week' 2025!

The current globalised economic system - driven by extractivism, expansion and material growth - is destroying the living world. Over the past 50 years, a range of important alternative economic systems have been proposed to replace 'neo-classical' or 'growth' economics - including Steady State, Doughnut, Wellbeing and Degrowth Economics. But what difference have they made? Are our economic systems changing? What approaches are working? Join us for a week of important discussions about our economic systems, the alternatives that are possible and what we can do to shift away from the extractivism that is destroying the living world.

** PLEASE NOTE - all times below are in AEST or Australian Eastern STANDARD Time (Brisbane/Qld time) Please convert to your own timezone **

Tickets are FREE, but bookings are essential.
ONE TICKET gives you access to ALL 'Earth Economics Week' webinars

WEBINAR SCHEDULE - Join us!

Monday 3 March - 7pm to 8pm AEST
"Ethics and the economy" with Professor Helen Kopnina, Northumbria University (UK) - Inaugural Haydn Washington Memorial Public Lecture
Join us for AELA's Inaugural 'Haydn Washington Lecture', honoring our dear friend and colleague, Haydn, who passed away in December 2022. To find out about the legacy of Haydn's ecological economics and earth ethics work please visit this website. Professor Kopnina is an internationally recognised researcher and writer based at Northumbria University. She collaborated with Haydn for many years. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion about the role of ethics within our economic systems.

Tuesday 4 March - 12pm to 1.30pm AEST
"Forever Industries - First Nations' approaches to sustainable economic futures" - with Glenn Woods, CEO of Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, The Kimberley; Mike Winer, Advisor with Juunjuwarra Aboriginal Corporation, Starcke River, Cape York; and Dr Mary Graham, Kombumerri person from the Yugambeh Language Speaking Peoples in South East Queensland.

Wednesday 5 March - 12pm to 1.30pm AEST
'Are Steady State Economics still relevant?' with Matthew Washington, Phil Jones and Robert Perey, Centre for a Steady State Economy (CASSE) NSW - facilitated by Michelle Maloney.

Thursday 6 March - 6.30pm to 7.30pm AEST
'Can a Wellbeing Economy Save the Planet?', with Katherine Trebeck, Co-founder of Wellbeing Economy Alliance International
Friday 7 March - 12pm to 1.30pm AEST
"What could a degrowth and decolonised economy look like?" with Mary Graham, Anitra Nelson and Michelle Maloney

Are Steady State Economics Still Relevant?

Can a Wellbeing Economy Save the Planet?

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS

MONDAY 3 MARCH @ 7pm AEST
PROFESSOR HELEN KOPNINA

Dr. Helen Kopnina (Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2002) is employed at Northumbria University and leading the Sustainable Business program, integrating world-leading research with impactful teaching. Her research focuses on environmental education and links biodiversity to business. With over 200 peer-reviewed articles and 17 (co)authored or (co)edited books with international collaborators, she challenges traditional boundaries through an inter- and transdisciplinary approach to academic discourse, education, and corporate sustainability strategies. Her work, published in top-tier journals across education sciences natural sciences and business/management, has gained a growing influence, as shown by her current Scopus H-index of 51. Her research has influenced curricula and pedagogical strategies across institutions. Many of her highly cited publications focus on critiques and ways forward from Education for Sustainable Development Goals. Her research on environmental education, particularly in ecopedagogy and ecoliteracy, plays a very significant role in shaping her teaching and empowering graduates to work in highly skilled professions through transformative and inclusive experiential learning. She participates in scientific committees including the Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) of The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Her wide networks and editorial work reflect her global impact on shaping sustainability education and research.

TUESDAY 4 MARCH @ 12 NOON AEST

GLENN WOODS

Glenn Woods is the CEO of Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, in the Western Kimberley Region of WA, an Indigenous led not for profit organisation, focused on protecting country via First Law approaches. He is is an educator and researcher who is committed to supporting an understanding and uptake of an Indigenist approach to professional practice. Glenn has worked across the education and training space for 25 years, with a focus on community-based learning and teaching practice that is connected to country. His Ph.D. research was focused on the decolonization of education and training via applied Indigenist theory and practice. Glenn identifies as a third-culture Australian, having a multicultural Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage. Glenn has lived and worked in a diverse range of locations and communities throughout Australia from remote Indigenous communities to large urban settings.

MIKE WINER

Michael is a mentor to Juunjuwarra Aboriginal Corporation, Starcke River, Cape York. Mike moved to Cape York after coordinating Forest Campaigns running The Canberra Branch of The Wilderness Society In the 80’s. He moved to Cairns and set up A branch to campaign on Cape York in 1992. The first Campaign was the Starcke campaign to acquire Starcke cattle lease from land speculators. This led to the formation of The Cape York Black/Green alliance that has resulted in the acquisition of over 6 million ha of pastoral leases on Cape York that have been converted to National Park and Aboriginal Freehold. Mike led the creation of the Jawun Aboriginal Corporate Partnership program in 1999, which brought corporations to work under the leadership of Indigenous leaders and organisations in Cape York. More recently Michael has spent 15 years researching land and sea management and environmental services at the Cape York Institute. Michael has quietly committed his life to supporting civil society, nature and those living in poverty by supporting great leaders who are working for their people and their country.

MARY GRAHAM

Dr Mary Graham is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Queensland. Mary grew up in South-East Queensland, and is a Kombu-merri person of the Yugambeh language speaking People, through her father’s heritage and a Wakka Wakka clan member through her mother’s heritage. With a career spanning more than 30 years, Mary has worked across several government agencies, community organisations and universities. Mary is a lecturer with the University of Queensland, teaching Aboriginal history, politics and comparative philosophy and she has written and published many prominent works, including publications in the Aboriginal Encyclopaedia, training modules for Cross Cultural Awareness and a host of academic papers. Mary is a Director of Future Dreaming Australia, an Indigenous and non-indigenous partnership organisation working to increase cross-cultural ecological knowledge in Australia (www.futuredreaming.org.au)

WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH @ 12NOON AEST
MATTHEW WASHINGTON

Matthew Washington has a MA Hons from Sydney University in Philosophy and a Masters of Taxation from the University of NSW. He worked in the Australian Taxation office as a team leader and technical adviser, and was engaged for 14 years doing Transfer Pricing and analysing the commercial dealings of large multinational companies. During this time his work covered tax issues in international tax law, forensic accounting, and developing Advance Pricing Arrangements between corporations and the ATO. His research interests include Social Philosophy, Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science, and he is strongly interested in structural and governance reform, as he understands what law and administrative structures can achieve, while enforcing the aims of legislation for the good of the commonwealth. Matthew is now retired from the ATO and is the Treasurer of the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) NSW.

PHIL JONES

Phil Jones has worked for decades as a high school science teacher, and introduced economic subjects into his high school curricular, to raise understanding and awareness about economics. He is the Secretary of the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) NSW and a regular speaker at NENA events and conferences.

ROBERT PEREY

Dr Robert Perey is an Adjunct Research Fellow at UTS (University of Technology Sydney) and a Co-Director of CASSE. His work is transdisciplinary and focuses on organisational and societal change and the transformations needed to move to a post-growth economy.

THURSDAY 6 MARCH @ 6.30PM AEST
DR KATHERINE TREBECK

Katherine is a political economist, writer and advocate for economic system change. She co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (International) and also WEAll Scotland, its Scottish hub. She sits on a range of boards and advisory groups such as The Democracy Collaborative, the C40 Centre for Urban Climate Policy and Economy, and the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity. She has published numerous books and articles, most recently as co-author of The wellbeing economy in brief: Understanding the growing agenda and its complications, Centre for Policy Development, February 2024. Further details about Katherine's writing and work can be found on her website - https://katherinetrebeck.com/

FRIDAY 7 MARCH @ 12NOON AEST
MARY GRAHAM

Dr Mary Graham is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Queensland. Mary grew up in South-East Queensland, and is a Kombu-merri person of the Yugambeh language speaking People, through her father’s heritage and a Wakka Wakka clan member through her mother’s heritage. With a career spanning more than 30 years, Mary has worked across several government agencies, community organisations and universities. Mary is a lecturer with the University of Queensland, teaching Aboriginal history, politics and comparative philosophy and she has written and published many prominent works, including publications in the Aboriginal Encyclopaedia, training modules for Cross Cultural Awareness and a host of academic papers. Mary is a Director of Future Dreaming Australia, an Indigenous and non-indigenous partnership organisation working to increase cross-cultural ecological knowledge in Australia (www.futuredreaming.org.au)

ANITRA NELSON

Anitra is an activist-scholar, affiliated with theInformal Urbanism Research Hub (InfUr-) at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
She has written and published extensively on housing, degrowth and other related topics. Recent publications include the following: she is one of four co-editors of Post-Carbon Inclusion published by Bristol University Press mid-2024; Beyond Money, A Postcapitalist Strategy published by Pluto Press (London) in early 2022; Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide co-authored with Vincent Liegey in 2020 and Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices, co-edited with Ferne Edwards (NTNU, Norway) in 2021. More information about Anitra's work can be found on her website: https://anitranelson.info/bio/

MICHELLE MALONEY

Dr Michelle Maloney (BA/LLB Hons ANU, PhD Griffith University) is the Co-founder and Director of AELA and the New Economy Network Australia (NENA), and a Director of Future Dreaming. Michelle began her career as an environmental lawyer, then broadened her work to include multi-disciplinary approaches to creating ecocentric systems change. Today her work focuses on reimagining law and economics, creating bioregional stewardship and governance, empowering communities, bridging different cultural approaches to ecological care, Earth-centred ethics and the arts. Michelle’s initiatives, publications and public talks can be accessed on her website: www.michellemaloney.au

ABOUT AUSTRALIAN EARTH LAWS ALLIANCE (AELA)

AELA is a not-for-profit organisation working to increase the understanding and practical implementation of Earth-centred (ecocentric) governance, with a focus on systems change across law, economics, education, ethics and community participation in Australia. AELA's vision is an Australian society that embraces an ecocentric or ‘life-centred’ culture, with governance systems that enable human communities to thrive within ecological boundaries, while nurturing biodiversity and ecosystem health. AELA's work includes education programs and project support for people, communities and organisations working to create ecocentric systems change.

For more information, visit our website: www.earthlaws.org.au
or Email: aela@earthlaws.org.au

ABOUT NEW ECONOMY NETWORK AUSTRALIA (NENA)

NENA is a network of organisations and individuals working to create an ecologically healthy and socially just society by transforming Australia’s economic system. NENA works by providing a platform for knowledge sharing, peer to peer support, cross-pollination of ideas and collaboration.
Visit our website: www.neweconomy.org.au or Email us: nena@neweconomy.org.au

ABOUT FUTURE DREAMING

Future Dreaming Australia is an Indigenous and non-indigenous partnerships organisation, working to share cross-cultural ecological knowledge to build a better future for all.
Future Dreaming runs decolonisation, cross-cultural and Indigenous governance training and education workshops and supports landholders working to create ecological stewardship projects. Visit our website: www.futuredreaming.org.au for more information