Living Democracy - with Tim Hollo, in conversation with Michelle Maloney
Event description
The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other’s ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching and chanting in protest. This is living democracy.
Join us for an important discussion with Tim Hollo, author of 'Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world'. Tim Hollo offers bold ideas and a positive vision. It’s the end of the world as we know it, but it doesn’t have to be the end of the world. In fact, around the globe, people and communities are beginning an exciting new journey.
Yes, the world looks bleak. Across our society there’s a mounting sense of desperation in the face of the climate crisis, gaping economic inequality and racial injustice, increasing threat of war, and a post-truth politics divorced from reality. Extinction is in the air.
But what if the solutions to our ecological, social and political crises could all be found in the same approach? What if it was possible for us to not just survive, but thrive?
ABOUT TIM HOLLO
Tim Hollo is Executive Director of The Green Institute and a Visiting Fellow at the Sydney Environment Institute, Sydney University. He is also a musician and environmentalist who co-founded Green Music Australia in 2013.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT TIM'S BOOK
'A brilliant conversation and action kick-starter from a man who walks the talk.'– Christine Milne
'It’s pretty clear that the world we’ve known isn't working very well anymore; we need to reinvent it, and this book brims with good ideas about what that means!' – Bill McKibben
'A great vision for a bloodless coup of mutual aid and rule-governed anarchy.' – Tyson Yunkaporta
'A manual for making a new and better world that shows us, with lucidity, courage and compassion, that the tools for building that world are already in our hands.' – James Bradley
'I have been waiting for this book, and now that Tim Hollo has written it, I’ll be putting it in the hands of pretty much everyone I know.' – Danielle Celermajer
'Timely, vivid and urgent, this is a book that meets the challenges of our age head-on.' – Scott Ludlam
'A brilliant treatise for our future and based on a deep understanding of First Nations knowledge – Tim Hollo has given us so much with this beautifully written work.' – Tjanara Goreng Goreng
ABOUT EARTH LAWS MONTH
The Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) is hosting a huge month of
events throughout September - webinars, public lectures, workshops,
virtual art exhibitions and more - to explore and celebrate our
relationship with the living world. To find out about all our events,
please visit: https://events.humanitix.com/tours/earthlaws-month
ABOUT AELA
The Australian Earth Laws Alliance is a not-for-profit organisation
dedicated to creating Earth-centred systems change, by increasing the
understanding and practical implementation of Earth-centred governance.
Our programs include a focus on law, economics, education, ethics,
Indigenous knowledge systems and the arts.
For more information, please visit our website: www.earthlaws.org.au
Or get in touch - aela@earthlaws.org.au