Celebration/Event: 'In order to save the village we had to destroy it' - Colin Long at the launch of Degrowth Network Australia (DNA)

Colin Long (pictured) was one of three speakers at the Sunday, February 26, launch of the Degrowth Network Australia (DNA) at Northcote's Black Spark Cultural Centre. The board member from Earthworker, environmental activist and Just Transitions Organizer from the Victorian Trades Hall Council was joined as a speaker by activist/scholar and an honourary principal fellow at the Informal Urbanism Research Hub at the University of Melbourne, Anitra Nelson, and Melbourne sociologist and author, Terry Leahy, who publishes the podcast, "System Change Made Simple". About 40 people joined the launch/celebration, which was a part of Melbourne's National Sustainable Living Festival.