2021

31 March 2021

Here’s why we need to look beyond government policy in our switch to renewables

2021 Honours Fellow Phoebe Evans talks to SEI about Australia’s transition to renewable energy, and why COVID-19 has provided the ideal opportunity to address the climate crisis.

24 March 2021

Will decarbonising the Hunter Valley create more secure jobs?

As coal mines close, Newcastle environmentalist and founding member of the Hunter Jobs Alliance Georgina Woods is on the frontlines of the fight for sustainable employment.

17 March 2021

How can we recultivate Indigenous agriculture?

Jared Harrison talks to SEI about his work with Indigenous communities and entrepreneurs, bringing traditional food practices back to country for a more sustainable future.

25 February 2021

Shallow and deep collaboration: art, ecology and Alexander von Humboldt

How can we put deep collaboration into practice, asks philosopher Dalia Nassar, and what can we learn from the legacy of one of history’s greatest environmental thinkers?

09 February 2021

What does it mean to care in a time of extinction?

SEI researchers Thom van Dooren, Sophie Chao and Danielle Celermajer contribute to a new essay collection: “Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction”, published last week in the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s Theorizing the Contemporary series.

01 February 2021

Writing in the midst of a world in peril

In the lead up to the publication of her new book Summertime, Deputy Director Danielle Celermajer reflects on the process of writing as a means of moving through rage, terror and grief.

27 January 2021

Storying extinction

Sophie Chao meditates on the power of storytelling as a means of remembering and repairing multispecies connections in times of crisis.

13 January 2021

Requiem for a black summer

Artist Julie Vulcan reflects on loss, memory and the artist-as-conduit in conversation with SEI editor Liberty Lawson, ahead of this weekend’s opening of multimedia exhibition and performance series Requiem at Sydney Festival.

11 January 2021

Collaborating During Covid19: A Reflection on Our Interconnection With Trees

Environmentalist artist Ann Jyothis Raj and sound studies scholar and artist Dr Diana Chester reflect on the challenges to their creative processes and collaboration over the past year working remotely on The Trees of Afghanistan Project.

11 January 2021

Collaborating during Covid-19: a reflection on our interconnection with trees

Environmentalist and artist Ann Jyothis Raj and sound studies scholar and artist Dr. Diana Chester reflect on the challenges to their creative processes and collaboration over the past year working remotely on The Trees of Afghanistan Project.