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...

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...

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 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...

‘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,...

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  – ...

What is clear is that the Earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation… Our task at this critical moment is to awaken the energies needed to create the new world and to evoke the universal communion of all parts of life. (Thomas Berry, priest and...

“Our consciousness , rising above the growing (but still much too limited) circles of family, country and race, shall finally discover that the only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the earth” (Teilhard de Chardin). All humans are born from the earth , are nurtured from it, and are destined...

Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone. It has to be made like bread. Remade all the time. Made new.  (Ursula LeGuin, cited in Milkwood Newsletter,  March 2024) Welcome to the April edition of Localising Leanganook’s e-newsletter. There’s lots of local news and events as well as a thought-provoking feature article, in podcast...

Dear Localising Leanganook e-newsletter subscribers, Please find below a special e-news bulletin about next Sunday’s Palm Sunday Peace Walk in Castlemaine. Localising Leanganook wishes to support this important local initiative. Please Note: Our usual monthly e-news will be published at the end of March. Palm Sunday Peace Walk- Castlemaine When: Sunday March 24, 2024,...