Welcome friend. Here we are at the ground floor of a new platform for people and planet. Hothouse Magazine – a safe space for dangerous ideas. Who, what, why? Here’s a little back story. I’m Matt Bray, founder and current Chief Editor of this new entity Hothouse. A portal whose purpose is to amplify stories […]
Welcome friend. Here we are at the ground floor of a new platform for people and planet.
Hothouse Magazine – a safe space for dangerous ideas. Who, what, why? Here’s a little back story.
I’m Matt Bray, founder and current Chief Editor of this new entity Hothouse. A portal whose purpose is to amplify stories from the climate, environment and social justice community.
Over the past 5 years I have had the opportunity to collaborate with a lot of organisations in the purpose space. From my work with Comms Declare building a community of marketers pledging to not work with fossil fuel clients and running the Fossil Ad Ban campaign in Australia – to collaborating with dozens of organisations in the environment and community space through my creative studio Art Disrupt – to running events to encourage connection and conversation as part of People Planet Pint and Environmental Film Festival Australia – and a few other bits and bobs. I’ve been busy.
On this journey I have met thousands of amazing people connecting and contributing to the solving the biggest challenges communities are facing on a planet on fire. People focused on solutions and taking action – often under resourced and under the radar. Theirs were stories that needed to be told, at scale. And just over a year ago a team from this community gathered to scratch an itch – how do we help this go mainstream? After a strategy session around a boardroom table at a coworking space in Richmond Hothouse was born. A safe space for dangerous ideas. A seed planted, ready to be activated.
But to kick this off we needed time and money and Hothouse was parked until the capacity to inject resources became available. Off the back of a few collabs I had found space to put some time into progressing the Hothouse project. So here we are. And what Hothouse Magazine becomes is 100% dependent on the community it supports. This is our story.
As we set up shop things will be running pretty lean but soon we’ll be sharing content, events, actions and activities that you can participate in for an informed, inclusive and connected community.
Well, that’s the plan anyway.
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And if you’re flush with cash, or have access to the bosses credit card, flick us a donation to help us get things moving quicker to a bigger audience.
In solidarity.
Matt Bray
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