Creative Climate Futures Incubator    The Aust-Indo Creative Climate Futures Incubator is a cross-cultural artist incubation-residency and exhibition program that brings together Indonesian and Australian artists to imagine alternative climate futures through...

THE REGENESIS PROJECT Since 2022 I have been working with my community of creatives in the Greater Blue Mountains to run the yearly Regenesis Project. In 2024 we wound up GBMCAN (Greater Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network) and created a new group, the Enlivenment...

AND YET This post is a response to  world where traditional sources of hope and aspiration in our modern world of intensifying consumerism, frustrated rage and anxiety, are no longer available to most of us. And the promises of our political leaders no longer ring...

Narratives We humans are not a mathematic species who think in numbers. We make sense of the world through the stories we construct about how the world around us 'works' and we folk of the modern-scientific world use numbers (measurable facts) to anchor our stories...

As the Liberal International Order collapses, a new Middle Powers Strategy requires a new analytical lens: the Modernity/Coloniality Complex, and the shift from extractivist logic to a new eco-relationality paradigm.

Explore how an enlivenment worldview challenges modern Western norms and offers a relational, life-affirming counter-culture rooted in ecology, art and Indigenous insights.

The Modernity/Coloniality Complex  Old assumptions and long held beliefs no longer hold. We are being called to face the reality of the modernity/coloniality complex under Pax Americana, which under President Trump’s ‘America First’ is producing the Third Rupture in...

Sowing New Seeds Indigenous peoples of the world, in the Amazon Basin, Australia and Canada in particular, have long challenged the extractivist intent of First World science when attempting to investigate, categorise and make use of their traditional knowledge about...

From Lisa Graumlich Substack  This article is republished with permission from Lisa Graumlich's Stubstack. Please subscribe to her Substack to be part of this growing community of Future Earth biopoetic enliveners. Based in Seattle, Lisa is the inaugural dean of the...

Who Are We? Prime Minister Albanese seems intent on negotiating a particularly Multicultural Australian Way through the churn and debris of the collapsing rules-based world order, ruled over by a dominant USA. This, despite the determined efforts of oppositional...

Navigational Challenges How do we thread the needle to effectively navigate the socio-cultural and political transition in which we Australians find ourselves? The politics of division is ramping up, with a focus on the energy transition and climate change and...

The Three Pillars of Regenesis Back in 2023, I published an edited version of my blog writings as ‘The Regenesis Journey’, arguing that Australia’s future should be based on three pillars of regenerative wisdom. In a world crowded with information, I wanted to see if...