Brisbane Festival sets out to nurture and celebrate Brisbane’s cultural life. If international respect is a sign of our cultural depth, then the inclusion of two independent performances of Snow White, mark a milestone in that celebration. The choice of Brisbane as the exclusive Australian destination for Ballet Preljocaj’s Snow White is one measure of Continue Reading →
Writing in CounterCurrents this week, Gustavo Esteva reports that the Oxaca Commune in Southern Mexico has continued to evolve and grow despite brutal repression by the Mexican government in 2006. A gentle revolution by the largely indigenous population of 4 million people set out to displace the economy from the center of social life, reclaiming Continue Reading →
The Finnish Government has moved ahead with plans to trial a Basic Income Scheme on 2,000 random citizens to study the impact on employment. Under the scheme, recipients receive a basic income of $US600 per month. Prime Minister Sipila wants to see if the measure can boost employment and simplify the welfare benefits system. “The Continue Reading →
The John James newsletter this week collated a number of statistics about the Australian take up of solar energy Australians have invested $8 billion of their own money in rooftop solar over the last 8 years, and they now save around $1 billion in electricity bills each year [1] Rooftop solar systems will prevent over Continue Reading →
Global efforts at reforestation are accelerating, gollowing commitments made in the Paris Agreement of November last year. Volunteers in India smashed a world record by planting 49.3 million tree saplings on July 11. Last year, volunteers in Ecuador planted 647,250 trees from 200 species in one day. In 2014, Men of the Trees planted 100,450 Continue Reading →
Global interest spiked this week in an Act of the New Zealand parliament granting personhood to the Te Urewera National Park. The actual wording of the act is that “Te Urewera is a legal entity and has the same legal rights, powers, duties and responsibilities as a person.” This means that legal action can be Continue Reading →