A fascinating conversation with Aaron Yew, Co-founder and CEO of the Peoples’ Grid. We started off talking about how states used to own our power stations but over time they have all been centralised and now is the time to decentralise. Christie Walk, where I have lived for nearly 16 years is an urban eco-community, 27 households on 2000square metres with much of it being green space and lots of…
Deep time perspectives of place Forum hosted as part of the Conscious Cities Festival Monday 25th October 2021 MOD – University of South Australia, North Terrace Adelaide Australia is made up of over 350 different First Nations each with unique languages and ways of living, learning and being. For tens of thousands of years protocols have existed for First Nations Peoples to welcome visitors to their Country. Traditionally, visitors requested permission to…
I asked Dr Suter to comment on Australia’s involvement against apartheid. He does that and much more in this interesting and very relevant to now interview. Dr Keith Suter is the Managing Director of the Global Directions think tank. He is an economic and social commentator, strategic planner, author and broadcaster. As a broadcaster, he appears on Australian radio an average of once per day. He is the TV…
Christie Walk is the brainchild of Cherie Hoyle and architect Paul Downton. As far as we know it is the only medium density Eco-community located within the boundary of a capital city. Built on 2000 square metres, nearly a third of which is green space its 27 households is home to up to 45 residents. It is an absolute success story and a living model demonstrating what a city could…
Here is a short audio promoting this Tuesday’s, 14 Dec 6.30pm AEDT free online Human Rights Forum and the important work that Yingiya Guyula does. Audio Player 08:31 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. For his website, please see https://www.yingiya.net/ Tuesday, 14 Dec – 6.30pm AEDT A free online forum marking International Human Rights Day – A time to reflect “Can we do more to respect Human…
Have a listen to Richard Tonkin talking about a whole range of topics, from activism to protest songs, how music contributes to well -being and much more. Richard is from the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, affectionately known as The Gov a favourite pub to many Adelaideans. Towards the end of the interview we hatch up a plan to start a songwriting group at The Gov, songs to cover current issues rather…
A conversation with Gabie Bond from the Sustainable Prosperity Action Group on Modern Monetary Theory, equity in economics, millionaires and TAX. About 10 minutes in it gets really interesting and just wait till you find out what the USA does with its tax dollars’ recorded on unceded Kaurna land
Listen here to find out how to join Gabie and the Sustainable Prosperity Action Group for a January 8th and 9th weekend workshop, The Case for a Jobs Guarantee. recorded on unceded Kaurna land
This little house, so much a part of its environment stood for many years. For more than 3 decades it was home to Belinda and Ervin. It had withstood so much including the fires of 2015. Listen below to Belinda’s poem Ginninderra Press published Belinda’s book Not Looking for Signs in 2020, a lot happened while it was at the printing press. Belinda Broughton is a poet and an artist who…
