Come, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this broad Earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed Perfection. By every life a share, or more or less, None born but it is…

“Nature doesn’t care about our economic siloes, short-term cycles and measurement frameworks. What matters in the end is generating tangible systemic change that realigns our economy with the truth that we. are. nature.” (Kaj Lofgren, CEO of Regen Melbourne, spoken at the  Global Nature Positive Summit 2024) Welcome to the late January/February 2025 edition of…

 All ethics so far evolved rest on a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.   The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants and animals, or, collectively: the land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to…

Who would dream for us to be better if it were not the artist? And who would show us the way if it were not for the storyteller? Jamaica Osorio, cited in Emergence Magazine,  October 2024  https://emergencemagazine.org/    Welcome to the November edition of Localising Leanganook ‘s e-newsletter. Enjoy our feature article prepared by Ira…

The thing that we did differently was to set out a way of working and ethos. We said, this is how we, as a group of individuals, will work together. The key element of which is: we won’t be confrontational. We can disagree with each other, but we won’t turn that into Westminster-style conflict. We…

We live in capitalism.  Its power seems inescapable – but then so did the divine right of kings.  Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.  Resistance and change often begins in art.  Very often in our art, the art of words.  Ursula K Le Guin, speech to the National Book Awards,…

‘The equal right of all people to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air: it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some people have a right to be in this world, and others no right.’ Henry George, Progress…

Degrowth aims to reframe economies away from socially and ecologically destructive growth. Sustainability means that everyone’s needs and Earth’s ecological needs must be met, neither more nor less. This means transforming everyday practices and cultures to restore and preserve the regenerative capacities of Earth and of our collective selves. (from Degrowth Central Victoria  –  a…