ABOUT THE HUB
A critically important part of building the new economy is to ensure human societies and economies fit within the regenerative capacity of the living world. The Earth Economies Hub was created in 2018 to enable the NENA Network to engage with Earth-centred economic ideas and practices.
HUB OBJECTIVES
The goals of the NENA Earth Economies Hub are to:
- Share knowledge within the NENA network about economic concepts and approaches that aim to align human societies with the health of the living world
- Enable members of the Hub to share information and resources about ecologically focussed economics
- Organise events, workshops, and meetings that support the goals of the Hub.
Hub Contact: Dr Michelle Maloney, Australian Earth Laws Alliance, aela@earthlaws.org.au
UPCOMING EVENTS
Economics for the Earth 2026
PAST EVENTS
About Earth Economics Week 2025
The current globalised economic system - driven by extractivism, expansion and material growth - is destroying the living world. Over the past 50 years, a range of important alternative economic systems have been proposed to replace 'neo-classical' or 'growth' economics - including Steady State, Doughnut, Wellbeing and Degrowth Economics. But what difference have they made? Are our economic systems changing? What approaches are working? Join us for a week of important discussions about our economic systems, the alternatives that are possible and what we can do to shift away from the extractivism that is destroying the living world.
Hosts of Earth Economics Week 2025 - The Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), New Economy Network Australia (NENA) and Future Dreaming Australia
Earth Economics Week 2025 - Webinar Recordings
Can a 'Wellbeing' Economy save the planet? with Katherine Trebeck, Co-founder of Wellbeing Economy Alliance International.
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Are Steady State Economics still relevant? with Matthew Washington, Robert Perey, Phil Jones (CASSE, NSW) and Michelle Maloney (AELA).
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Forever Industries - First Nations' approaches to sustainable economic futures with Glenn Woods, CEO of Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, The Kimberley; Mike Winer, Advisor with Juunjuwarra Aboriginal Corporation, Starcke River, Cape York; and Dr Mary Graham, Kombumerri person from the Yugambeh Language Speaking Peoples in South East Queensland.
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Inaugural Haydn Washington Memorial Lecture - Ethics and the Economy - with with Professor Helen Kopnina, Northumbria University (UK)
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Earth Economics Week 2023 - Webinar Recordings
The future of Ecological Economics - with Robert Costanza
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The path to a sustainable civilisation: technological, socioeconomic and political change - with Mark Diesendorf and Rod Taylor
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Designing Regenerative Cultures - with Daniel Christian Wahl in conversation with Michelle Maloney
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Degrowth in Australia - What's possible? - with Anitra Nelson and Terry Leahy
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Indigenous philosophy and 'Relationist Economics' - with Mary Graham
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Earth Economics Week 2022 - Webinar Recordings
Post-extractivism: What could life look like, beyond the extractive economy? - with Natalie Lowrey, Liz Downes, Marta Conde and Carlos Zorrilla
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Medium expectations: How can we reduce our demands on the living world? - Indigenous and non-indigenous perspectives with Mary Graham, the late Ross Williams and Michelle Maloney
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Can a wellbeing economy protect the environment? - with Katherine Trebeck, Mike Salvaris and Gareth Hughes
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Degrowth in Australia - with Anitra Nelson and Terry Leahy
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What would it take to build an Earth centred economy? - with Richard Denniss, The Australia Institute, in conversation with Michelle Maloney
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Population, consumption and climate change - with Ian Lowe, Jane O'Sullivan and the late Haydn Washington
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