Australia & New Zealand
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Total Reset
Not everyone will agree with every part of Greg Campbell's massive work that satisfies on so many levels: as a story, as a social critique, as a personal deep transformation journey, and as an eye-opening revelation of what it means to be within and part of an aboriginal culture.
Campbell's...
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International Permaculture Festival of Ideas
"Permaculture is one of the most practical and hopeful education and design movements myceliating the world today. In celebration of International Permaculture Day (May 5) lets gather together and imagine more positive permaculture futures."
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Reading Landscape with David Holmgren
Not so much a "how to" but a "why to" film taking viewers into what it means to connect deeply with land and understand it as a living process. The film is about both what can be learned as well as how we can be more deeply integrated into place as a part of landscape. Each section opens with...
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Our $100b Natural Capital Asset: the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, Tīkapa Moana, Te Moananui-ā-Toi
Excerpt: "This report adds to the knowledge base by building on prior work about the Gulf’s economic value and going beyond just updating estimates by expanding the scope of what’s being estimated to include non-market as well as market-based values and drawing out implications for decision making...
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Economy for Public Good Conference
Excerpt: "Together we’ll learn from te ao Māori approaches, harvest global doughnut, degrowth and circular thinking, celebrate local wellbeing and business success stories and learn practical skills.
With international keynote from Amanda Janoo, WEAll’s Global Policy Lead, MC’d by Michèle A’ Court... -
Selar Henderson
Selar is the Founder and Managing Director of Future Value Global, a regenerative investment company, and is a values-based business advisor. He is an advocate and catalyst for transformational shifts to greater sustainability in human activities and a more democratic economy that creates wealth for...
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Natural Capital Accounting For The Mining Sector: Beenup Site Pilot Case Study
A massive report led by mining giant BHP in its Beenup site in southwest Australia. A massive, multiparty / stakeholder effort including the discussions and sharing of the accounting approach and framework as well as much of the methodology. The temporal scenarios are fascinating and will be a...
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Regeneration at the Community Level: An Introduction to Regenerative Practice
Regenerative development is about reweaving a co-evolutionary relationship between human beings and ecological systems–work that is even more urgent now than ever before in the face of the interrelated crises of climate disruption and biodiversity loss. But how do we work on this?
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Why All 3 R’s Are Critical to a Circular Economy
Article focuses on the case of Australia and the importance of cross sectoral collaboration and the "need to break traditional boundaries between brand owners, manufacturers and those in the business of waste management and resource recovery, and instead stimulate collaborative partnerships."
Publi...
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An architect explains why we should rethink how we build homes
Excerpt: "Ged Finch, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Architecture at New Zealand's Victoria University of Wellington, is on a mission to bring that future closer with his game-changing design, "X-Frame".
"X-Frame is a self-braced interlocking system made of wood that clips together to eliminate...