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If we combine forces now, we can avert climate catastrophe.  But, as today’s report makes clear, there is no time for delay and no room for excuses.  I count on Government leaders and all stakeholders to ensure COP26 is a success. (United Nations Secretary General speaking about IPCC report on climate change,  described as...

When we dare to face the cruel social and ecological realities we have been accustomed to, courage is born and powers within us are liberated to reimagine and even, perhaps one day, rebuild a world. (Joanna Macy, Entering the Bardo) Welcome to the July edition of Localising Leanganook. In this edition there’s information about:...

“Living in Australia means living on Aboriginal land. Getting the right fire solutions on country will take a huge shift, involving many good people in many different ways. Everyone is going to be affected if we don’t become aware of how we all fit together to support change.” (Steffensen, Victor: Fire Country- How indigenous...

  The land is a sacred entity, not property or real estate; it is the great mother of all humanity. The Dreaming is a combination of meaning (about life and all reality), and an action guide to living. The two most important kinds of relationship in life are, firstly, those between land and people...

What if we had more people making decisions whose goal was the creation of beauty or telling stories or growing food or caring for older people? We would have a richer public life, a richer discourse. And we would get better decision-making because suddenly you wouldn’t have this very narrow financially-driven set of decision...

Here’s a brief Localising Leanganook e-news focusing on Survival Day events being held in Castlemaine and Daylesford on Tuesday January 26th. A more detailed e-news will be published soon. Terra Nullius Breakfast- Daylesford When:  Tuesday January 26th, 2021, 8am-10am Where: outside Daylesford Town Hall Join the fifth Terra Nullius brekky and stand with First...

“As the planet’s ecosystems erode and politicians obsess over growth objectives, what we really need is degrowth, that is, to transform our ways of living, our economies, our polities and our cultures to live within the earths limits”. Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson, Preface to Exploring Degrowth, 2020, Pluto Press (See a Central Vic perspective...

We’re finally being forced to recognize that no top-down institution, governmental or otherwise, can fully ensure our safety. That our deepest insurance against disaster is going local—by getting to know our actual neighbors and checking in on one another when we can, participating in our local community and apprenticing with the more-than-human terrain that...

Covid-19 is showing us that when humanity is united in common cause, phenomenally rapid change is possible. None of the world’s problems are technically difficult to solve; they originate in human disagreement. In coherency, humanity’s creative powers are boundless. A few months ago, a proposal to halt commercial air travel would have seemed preposterous....