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2022 - Webinars & Workshops
Join us for an important presentation and workshop by Gillian McFee (Gillian McFee & Associates), Antony McMullen (Co-operatives Bonds) and Pete Cohen (Collaborate and Deliver).
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Join us for an important conversation about Australia's energy crisis and how creating cooperative responses is our most promising way forward.
In this webinar, Godfrey Moase and Colin Long will discuss the current energy crisis, the transformation of the energy system to respond to the decarbonisation imperative, and how CoPower and other co-operatives are building a co-operative ecosystem response to put energy back in public and social control.
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Join NENA and Co-Housing Australia for our NENA Housing Week in November!
Save the dates: Monday 7 - Friday 11th of November 2022.
Past 2022 events
Join us for a fantastic Friday evening of drinks, nibblies and discussions about co-operatives and unions today.
Read More ...Join us for an important discussion about Australia’s Rush for Energy Transition Minerals & Metals.
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- Adam Kempton
- Dr Tony Webb
- Linda Seaborn
ONLINE EVENT - 6PM AEDT/MELBOURNE TIME
In association with 888 Co-operative Causeway and the Fabian Society (Vic.)
with Natalie Lowrey and Liz Downes
What could Australia’s society and economy look like, if we transition away from an extractive economy?
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THIS EVENT IS BEING CO-HOSTED WITH FUTURE DREAMING
Future Dreaming is a not-for-profit organisation working to share ecological knowledge across cultures, to build a better future for all of us. For more information - www.futuredreaming.org.au
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with Anitra Nelson & Terry Leahy
What exactly is 'degrowth' and why are people advocating for it to be adopted by governments around the world? Join us for an important discussion about the 'degrowth' movement: how it started, what it calls for and what it would mean for the Australian economy if 'degrowth' was adopted as a policy and strategy.
with Ian Lowe, Jane O'Sullivan and Haydn Washington
There is no possibility of achieving our stated goal of sustainable development if we don’t stabilise the human population and reduce our resource demands”
2021 - Webinars & Workshops
In this webinar, NENA's Women in the New Economy Hub will address the role that women and feminised knowledges and wisdoms can play in shaping post-covid futures dedicated to well-being and embedding economies that are life enhancing, not death-making.
Read More ...The role of arts, culture and creativity is critically important to our vision of a ‘wellbeing economy’ and society. But given the challenges the arts sector has traditionally faced – and which have been exacerbated by COVID lockdowns and restrictions – what is the future of the arts sector and artists in Australia?
Read More ...Co-hosted by the NENA Post-Extractivism Hub & Blockade IMARC, this important webinar is an introduction to extractivism and its impacts.
This important webinar was co-hosted by the NENA Post-Extractivism Hub & Blockade IMARC, discussing extractivism and its impacts.
Read More ...This is a workshop run by NENA and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (International) on how to design policies for a wellbeing economy.
Read More ...Reimagining 'Quality of Life' and 'Social Wellbeing'
Webinar 6 - Post-Eurocentric Visions of Quality of Life
Guest speakers:
- Dr. Milena Büchs - "From the growth-welfare nexus to sustainable welfare within planetary boundaries"
- Nûjîn Derya - “Liberating life. On women's knowledge, social organising and our common struggle. Learnings from the Kurdish women's liberation movement.”
- Ajahn Brahmali - “The Buddhist Idea of a Good Life”
Reimagining 'Quality of Life' and 'Social Wellbeing'
Webinar 5 - Post-Capitalist Visions of Quality of Life
Guest speakers:
- Dr Nick Rose - "From commodity to commons; healing ourselves, healing nature"
- Loriana Luccioni - “Post-Capitalism and Universal, Unconditional Basic Income. Change the language to shift the values”
- Prof. Devan Pillay - “Marx meets Buddha: Ecosocialism, wellbeing and the pursuit of happiness”
This workshop included three presentations providing important updates about cooperative governance in Australia, a panel discussion with the guest speakers, a Q&A session and an opportunity for people to ask advice about setting up and managing their own cooperative.
Read More ...Reimagining 'Quality of Life' and 'Social Wellbeing'
'Post-capitalist Visions of Quality of Life': Part of Social Sciences Week, Australia
Hear from three distinguished guest speakers, hosted by NENA and the University of Newcastle.
Guest speakers:
- Prof. Noam Chomsky - "Imagining the Future – if there is one!"
- A./Prof. Ariel Salleh - “Some Ecological Feminist Thoughts on Wellbeing”
- Prof. Gar Alperovitz - “Democratizing the Economy: Practical Advances and Long Term Strategy”
Reimagining 'Quality of Life' and 'Social Wellbeing'
Webinar 3 - 'Pluriversal Visions of Quality of Life'
Guest speakers:
- Adjunct Professor Victoria-Grieve Williams - "Everywhen: Autonomy, Altruism and Living Well"
- A/Prof. Sara Motta - “Democracy (M)otherwise: Enfleshments from the Margins of Modernity”
- Prof . Ashish Kothari - “Ecoswaraj: a Radical Ecological Democracy Towards Justice and Sustainability”
Earlier Webinars
Webinar hosted by the NENA Perth Hub
Webinar hosted by the NENA Perth Hub
Join NENA's Arts & Culture Hub for a panel discussion with creative entrepreneurs who discuss their cutting edge cross-disciplinary projects connecting business, local, state government & non-government organisations & schools.
We explore how artists are now working to de-silo Arts & Culture with whole systems sensory critical thinking processes for creating solutions to our ecological, economic and cultural crises.
For more information, view the webinar on NENA's YouTube channel here.
Webinar hosted by the NENA Perth Hub
NENA's Energy Hub held an exciting discussion about Australia’s first large scale Solar Garden.
For more information about this webinar, visit the Facebook Event Page.
For more information about this webinar, visit the facebook event page
Webinar hosted by NENA Perth Hub
Webinar hosted by the NENA Perth Hub
Join us for a discussion about the 'invisible commons', created by the processes of people working together.
Read More ...co-hosted with International Network 'Yes to Life, No to Mining'
Speakers:
Tim Hollo, Green Institute and Prof. Bronwen Morgan, UNSW.
Speakers:
- Joel Orchard, CSA Australia New Zealand and Future Farmers
- Randal Breen, Farmer/Owner, Echo Valley Farm, Goomburra Valley QLD
** WATCH THE WEBINAR ZOOM RECORDING
Visit NENA's Food Hub
Speakers: Katherine Trebeck will give an introduction to the origins of WeALL, its current activities and its vision for a socially just economic future. Katherine and Michelle Maloney (NENA Director) will then discuss ways that NENA members can get involved in WeALL.
Speaker: Professor Chris Reidy, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS
See presentation notes here.
- 22 February - Update about NENA Governance structures and the 2018 Conference
- 22 March - Ecological Economics and why it matters
- 24 May - How strong self-awareness and self-governance can support our transition from the "Old" to the "New" Economy.
- 26 July - Food systems in the new economy
- 23 August - Education in the New Economy
- Click here for the recording of the webinar (including PowerPoint slides featured in three presentations)
- for individual PowerPoints, see:
- Sidsel Grimstad’s presentation [PDF, 580kB]
- Patricia Morgan’s presentation [PDF, 1.1MB]
- 20 September - Update from NENA Steering Group
- 22 November - NENA's International Partners Update - Jason Nardi, "RIPESS" (ripess.org)