Good lives on a healthy planet

At Australia reMADE, we exist to be architects of hope and possibility, within a network of reMAKERS all doing our part to build more of the world we want. I’ve been weirdly thrilled this year to dive into some really big questions and ideas for what we truly want from our economy, with leaders working on economic systems change in all sectors and spaces.?

Our latest conversations on the reMAKERS podcast include:

• Sally Hill, impact investor and founder of Purpose, who talks about purpose-driven business and how to separate the spin from the real deal.
• Mark Zirnsak from the Uniting Church, who shares lessons on humanity’s deep capacity for change, and talks about how we reMAKE our systems to treat people with respect, kindness and empathy.
• Dr Vishnu Prahalad from the University of Tasmania, who takes us in a time machine, teaches us to think in (eco)systems, and asks whether the answer to our biggest scientific challenges of our time isn’t just more science??
• Lisa Hough-Stewart and Amanda Janoo from WEAll, the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance, who remind us that economy is just the way we produce and provide for one another, so shouldn’t we always gauge its success by how well it meets our needs and contributes to our wellbeing?

Each one of the conversations on the podcast this season has helped shape our thinking, and we’re so proud to share the final article in our three-part series.

The Road to Wellbeing: Policies worth putting on the map

In our latest blog, we've honed in on policies that would be life-changing for how we live and work, that have existing scholarship behind them, are gathering steam and ready for some serious people power.

How would these policies change your life, your workplace, your family, your community? Check out our top three now and let us know what you think.?

I began my remaking economics deep-dive earlier this year having previously been intimidated by economics.? If money rules the world, then those with real power speak and study money – not democracy or nature or community or climate action or parenting or love.? The economy reigns supreme, we’re told, and with all the jargon, charts and quarterly reports, it’s best left to experts to decode and debate.?

I no longer feel that way. As I wrote in part 1, I now see the ‘econobabble’ as a very big castle wall, used to keep the rest of us feeling na?ve and intimidated, instead of angry at some of the decisions being made, or purposeful and confident about what we can create. ?

So it comes back to the very premise of an Australia reMADE: that we get to ask, to challenge, to renegotiate; and to joyfully join with others breathing life into the country of our dreams.?

So what do we really want for humanity’s future, at this juncture of disruption and crisis, hope and possibility?

There is suffering right now, so poignantly felt, that reminds us that progress is not linear or inevitable; that the arc of the moral Universe is indeed long. But we don’t give up, or refuse to pay attention to solutions and bright spots. Everything we take for granted today once sounded like fantasy to somebody’s grandparents.

Maybe what you really want for Christmas is peace, and an economy that affords us all good lives on a healthy planet? You are not alone. Keep reMAKING.

With hope and possibility,

Lily, for the Australia reMADE team