Community Resilience
Resilience & Recovery Hubs - Models from around the world
What makes a Resilience & Recovery Hub? This fieldnote focuses on the influences, reflections and learnings which shaped our thinking in Millgrove.
Community Resilience
Advancing community resilience through Millgrove Resilience & Recovery Hub
At the end of 2024 we were delighted to receive word that two of MRAG's grant applications to AusNet's Energy Resilience Community Fund had been approved - both to drive community resilience in Millgrove, Victoria.
Work
Update: Ecology of work, Europe & active experiments
The lichen-ous current state of my work and community life, and what's coming for the rest of the year.
Complexity
Responding across the system
We need to address the complexity gap in climate responses.
Living Labs
Inspiration from the Horizon
Inspiration from the EU Horizon Fund showing us what's possible when you mainstream applied, trans-disciplinary, ambitious research projects.
Systems Practice
Making Systems & Portfolios Physical with UNDP Innovation
Together with UNDP Innovation we explored how to make complex ideas, systems and portfolios, tangible.
Nature-based Solutions
Nature-based Solutions - a 2022 scan
The promise of Nature-based Solutions are to address dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, whilst also supporting human health and wellbeing.
Work
Towards collective action for a safer climate
We know that the coming years are crucial for taking rapid collective action if we want to minimise the damage caused by our own actions. It feels important to me personally to bring my skills and experience to the table professionally, having spent the better part of 15 years exploring
Systems Practice
Learning from COVID-19
Contributing to global conversations about how to chart a course forward. COVID-19 has profoundly changed our world in one short/interminable year. Many people have lost their lives. Society has been turned upside down. Many people have been working to keep their organisations, groups, businesses and government departments alive,
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation in the Yarra Ranges: Home Scale
Climate resilience and adaptation needs to be enabled, developed and nurtured at all levels of our society, with collective strategies vital to supporting a systemic transformation to move us towards a doughnut society.
Environment
Return to the Fray
At the turn of the year I felt a strong call to return to work on biodiversity & climate. I'm delighted to say that at the end of the month, I will be rejoining Conservation Volunteers [https://conservationvolunteers.com.au/] (Australasia's largest conservation volunteering organisation), as
Philanthropy
Learnings about Environmental Philanthropy
Reflections from exploring a role working in the philantrophic sector