Living Democracy

An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it

The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other’s ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching and chanting in protest. This is living democracy.

Yes, the world looks bleak. Across our society there’s a mounting sense of desperation in the face of the climate crisis, gaping economic inequality and racial injustice, increasing threat of war, and a post-truth politics divorced from reality. Extinction is in the air.

But what if the solutions to our ecological, social and political crises could all be found in the same approach? What if it was possible for us to not just survive, but thrive?

In Living Democracy, Greens activist Tim Hollo offers bold ideas and a positive vision. It’s the end of the world as we know it, but it doesn’t have to be the end of the world. In fact, around the globe, people and communities are beginning an exciting new journey.

This book will inspire you, inform you, and get you fired up to co-create our common future. A living democracy.

About the Author

Tim Hollo is Executive Director of the Green Institute and wrote this book while a visiting fellow at the Australian National University’s RegNet. A musician, environmentalist and community activist, he was the Communications Director for Greens Leader Christine Milne and a board member and campaigner at Greenpeace Australia Pacific. He is the founder of Green Music Australia and has recorded seven albums and toured globally with FourPlay String Quartet. Living in Canberra with his partner and two kids, Tim established the city’s flourishing Buy Nothing groups, set up a little library, spearheaded a campaign to keep the city free of billboard advertising, and has run for election with the Greens.