A vision of a living planet
Every two years, WWF releases the Living Planet Report. It reports on trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet and – to be honest – it’s a…
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Re-storying ourselves for a life-enhancing world
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been engaging in a series of discussions within the Action Research Plus (AR+) community. AR+ supports a global community of scholars and practitioners engaged…
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Rising from the ashes
For months now, we have lived with ash and smoke. Ashen skies, smoke in our nostrils, a fine dust coating everything with grit. You can feel it under your bare…
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Our Entangled Future
Are you tired of doom and gloom stories about our collective future? With climate change affecting people all over the planet and protests over social injustice sweeping the globe, it…
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Narara Ecovillage: Pioneers of sustainable living
Imagine you had the opportunity to build a sustainable community from scratch. Where would you start? What would you build? Who would you involve? How would you make decisions? Graduate…
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The stew pot revolution
The sound is rhythmic, insistent – clang, clang, clang – seeming to come from every direction. Metallic and vibrant, it forces its way into our conference rooms. It is lively…
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Finding happiness in the last Shangri-La
The small, Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has been described as the last Shangri-La. With only 800,000 citizens, sandwiched between the giants of India and China, it is easily overlooked. Yet…
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Being an ethical neighbour in a warming region
Developing massive new coal mines puts Australia at odds with the Paris climate agreement, and puts its regional neighbours in peril, Chris Riedy writes. Imagine this. Your home, the place…
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Democracy in action
Democracy is one of the defining features of Australian society, yet there is a strong sense that our democracy is in crisis. Voters are increasingly dissatisfied with the politicians that…
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Learning to be transdisciplinary researchers
Today’s researchers face intractable, wicked problems — like climate change and global inequity — that are too broad to solve with traditional disciplinary research techniques. Transdisciplinary (TD) research practices have come to…
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