Our Team
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The Post Growth Institute is a collaborative project dedicated to imagining a world beyond economic expansion that creates positive futures for all. We hope you’ll join the conversation, challenge others, yourselves and us – and contribute to the evolution of a world built better, not bigger.
We’re privileged to have this forum together to express our views and ideas. Our founding members include:
Jane Addison
Jane explores the environmental management of arid grazing lands in the Gobi Desert as part of her PhD, and is also an environmental consultant. Concern for landscape and our place in it prompted her to get involved with Sustainable Population Australia and the Australian Democrats. Jane is a co-founder of the Post Growth Institute and lives, bushwalks and bikes in and around Alice Springs, Australia.
Amelia Bryne
Amelia is a visual anthropologist (filmmaker & researcher) and is inspired to vision alternative futures, as well as to document the cultural shifts of our time. Currently the director of a research organization that investigates the relationship between people, the planet, and information and communications technologies she hopes to inspire people to assess technology in terms of its true impacts, including side-effects and shortcomings. She is active in solidarity economy work, which celebrates and aims to strengthen ecologically and socially just businesses and economic relationships. She is also a maker of nettle tea, wild berry jam, and divides her time between New York City and a farm near Stockholm.
Sharon Ede
Sharon is an ideas transmitter, writer and activist who writes, collects, and shares stories on communication and change for sustainability at cruxcatalyst. Sharon has been working on sustainability issues in paid and voluntary work since 1993 and loves playing connect the dots by cultivating a wide network of people working on sustainability.
Jen Hinton
Jen has a very diverse background, with academic and professional experiences ranging from theater to business to environmental studies. Her expertise is systems thinking and she has a contagious enthusiasm for seeking holistic ways of moving beyond humanity’s current crises.
Ingrid Johnson
Ingrid likes to define ecology as “the science of connect-the-dots” and “the art of understanding where you live.” Food, from the health of the land to the health of the eaters, is her first love, though she is typically interested in how everything affects everything else. A Jill-of-all-Trades vagabond, she tries to make herself at home and useful wherever she happens to be.
Donnie Maclurcan
Donnie Maclurcan is Co-Founder of the Post Growth Institute and Ideas Guy at Project Australia – a community organisation helping people launch not-for-profit initiatives.
Joshua Nelson
Joshua's life goal is leave this world better than when he came in – similar to the campsite rule. He started writing about sustainable economics with his blog Steady State Revolution, is Washington Chapter Director for the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) and a co-founder of the Post Growth Institute. A daily cyclist, avid reader and hobbyist mead maker, Joshua lives on Whidbey Island, Washington USA with his wife and son.
Janet Newbury
Janet is a PhD Candidate, with a keen interest in matters of social justice and in community-based approaches to change. She lives on Canada's west coast.
Guest Contributors
We are always interested in sharing and expanding the conversation. If you have a meaningful thing to add, please contact us.