Regenerating Melbourne

At the end of 2020, a combination of Covid lockdowns and “Black Summer” bushfires across the Australian state of Victoria meant that Melburnians were confined to their homes for weeks on end. But instead of staring into crisis, a group of citizens came together determined to start reimagining and rebuilding their city out of it. Jon sat down with Kaj Lofgren and Charity Mosienyane to hear the story of Regen Melbourne, an organisation born in that moment to catalyse work across the city towards three “earthshot” goals, including making the Birrarung river swimmable from source to sea.

Chapters

• (00:00:02) - Regen Melbourne: How to Save Democracy
• (00:01:31) - In the Know: Charity Musegnane
• (00:04:17) - What is Regen Melbourne?
• (00:06:45) - Regent Melbourne: The Centre for Place Based Work
• (00:10:22) - The Swimmable Birang: Melbourne's environmental rebirth
• (00:15:47) - The role of the London Mayor
• (00:20:52) - The Earthshots
• (00:27:02) - Rethinking the issue of water
• (00:32:24) - Regen Melbourne: The Conditions for a New Melbourne
• (00:41:00) - The End Game of Saving the River