Can we turn the 2020s into ‘The Regenerative Decade’? In this series of interviews about what that would imply, we talk ecology, deep adaptation, grief, compassion and passion, connecting with nature, resilience, revitalisation, restoration, revolution… – the bigger picture, in other words.

Guest in our 19th episode is Tim Hollo, Executive Director of the Green Institute. An hour about how we can build a better world once we are coming out of the Covid tunnel, and about what it will take to start the transformation.

At the Green Institute, Tim leads thinking around ecological political philosophy and practice, and drives policy discussion around Rights of Nature, Universal Basic Income and participatory democracy.

He is currently a visiting fellow at the Australian National University’s School of Regulation and Global Governance, RegNet. In 2013, he founded Green Music Australia, an organisation which brings together his environmental activism with his experience as a musician, having recorded eight albums and toured nationally and globally.

In this week’s Regenerative Hour, we ask Tim to elaborate and update us on what he wrote in the remarkable article he published in February titled ‘The end of the world as we know it‘.

“We’re living in extraordinary times that demand brave and creative solutions. If we’re able to imagine a different city, we’ll have the power to transform it.”~ Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona

Links and resources related to the interview:

→ Meanjin – 3 February 2020:The End Of The World As We Know ItArticle by Tim Hollo

→ Book by Charles Massy – 2017, 592 pages: ‘Call of the Reed Warbler’

→ Open Democracy – 8 March 2017:Eight lessons from Barcelona en Comú on how to Take Back Control“After 20 months in charge of Barcelona, here are eight things we have learned from Ada Colau and Barcelona en Comú.”

→ The Guardian – 22 June 2016:How to win back the city: the Barcelona en Comú guide to overthrowing the elite“A guide for world cities: how a 10-month-old community group took power from a political caste which had been in charge of Barcelona for four decades”

The regenerative interview with Tim Hollo is followed by an excerpt from Charlie Mgee‘s also very regenerative online launch of his new anthem for the permaculture and climate movement, titled ‘Climate Movement’,