Really good climate action needs really good vibes. Create some space for yourself and recharge your soul with the soundwaves of revolution.

Our feature station is Real Roots Radio. Play at the top of the page or visit their website.

Also try the top ten tracks that fuelled Art Disrupt’s fire in 2023 on Spotify here.

Check out: Environmental Music Prize

The media landscape in Australia is cooked with journalism becoming an underfunded lost art. Disrupt the Murdochracy with diversity in your news feed and independent journalism. Soon we’ll also be launching the Art Disrupt podcast to deliver fresh ideas to your ears.

Check out:

Independent media: Michael West Media, Crikey

Satire with punch: A Rational Fear, Juice Media, Rouser Lab

Curated news feeds: @TrueNorthNewsAU

Marching the streets, throwing soup, blockades, chaining yourself to a tree. Bloody wokesters. Protest is vital but now increasingly at risk of tighter laws. If civil disobedience is not your cup of tea you can still be a voice for change in a variety of ways. From wearing activism merch to pushing for change at work to sharing messages of revolution with posters and stickers, the opportunities to protest often are everywhere.

Check out: Work for Climate

Broccoli prices are through the bloody roof, and that’s if it’s even in stock. Supply chains are cooked and the supermarket duopoly is gouging us and their suppliers. Eating fresh produce is becoming more and more a luxury for the rich. Get a smidge of control in your meal plan by growing stuff yourself or in community gardens.

The screws are tightening across the board. Corporations rule the roost and the government is for the most part ambivalent to our woes. Not on our watch assholes. Pull together with your comrades to push for better conditions, change and a just society through unions and industry groups.

Check out: Comms Declare, Creatives for Climate

It seems nowadays our most common feeling is despair. Disrupt that with experiences that spark joy and connection. Connection to what is up to you. Nature, nurture, community, humanity. There’s stuff about that can turn despair into care, or at least help you feel less isolated and helpless. Our newsletter will be delivering fresh ideas of activities to feed your soul on the regular.

Check out: EFFA, Artful Yoga

Polluting the planet is weirdly profitable (if you’re a dick). Unfortunately a lot of the money invested in our destruction is ours. Financial institutions from banks to super funds use our money to invest in fossil fuel projects and other harmful industries because they’re greedy f*cks. Take an interest on what your money is being used for and switch. Ditch banks and super funds that put profit before people. Remember, you are people.

Check out: Australian Ethical, Bank Australia, Future Super

This one is divisive, if you’re racist. Otherwise, it’s a conversation about how we can do better collectively for a society that appreciates everybody in it and acknowledges historical and current failures. Indigenous cultures around the world have knowledge and experience around caring for our planet that we continue to ignore at our peril.

Check out: Sobah Beverages, We Are Warriors

Experiencing connection requires experiences to connect with. The arts sector is increasingly undervalued and struggling for survival. Turn up to events, buy art and merch, donate and support artists and organisations that resonate with you. And if you’re feeling the urge to satiate an artistic endeavour, do it, the time is now.

Check out: EFFA, Artful Yoga, St Martins Youth Centre

A meat heavy diet is a terribly inefficient way to feed billions of humans and a terrible sentence for many more billions of animals. Unfortunately, for lots of us meat is also terribly delicious. Delicious enough for us to see a cow in a paddock and think ‘that’s a cute cow’ while eating a quarter pounder. The disconnect is real.

If you can’t ditch eating meat, you can reduce it. Try meat free days, meat alternatives and exploring vegetarian/vegan cuisine to find your new delicious (without the murdery bit).

Check out: The Vegan Home Baker

Things are fucked. Really fucked. Overwhelmingly hard to comprehend fucked. An antidote to those feelings of overwhelm and doom is conversation. Find safe spaces that allow sharing of thoughts, feelings, ideas and opinions with empathy. Easier said than done because trolls be trolling 24/7. Fuck you trolls.

Check out: Art Disrupt Facebook Group (coming soon), Climate for Change

Sure. Tribes are commonly associated with spin classes and F45. That’s all good and shit but tribes can be so much more. The tribes we’re talking about are peer groups coming together to take action. That action can range from coming together in a safe space to process shit to collectively making change happen to benefit us all. Even better, take your F45 tribe to protests for double points.

Art Disrupt is working with some partners to develop a tribe that is going to land real soon. Watch this space.

Check out: Comms Declare, Creatives for Climate, Climate for Change

This one is easy. Sign up to St.Art Disrupt and you’re automatically taking part in collective action at scale. Great for lazy people who want a quick dopamine hit. Subscribe and feel the rush.

Stuff is cool. Shiny new stuff. Stuff we have. Stuff we need. Stuff we want. Stuff we want because somebody else has it. Stuff to replace stuff even though the stuff we’re replacing still does the stuff it’s supposed to. But under this perpetual mountain of stuff we’re figuring out we’re really stuffed. Buy less. Purchase with purpose. Support local. Consider the impacts of what your buying. Disrupting consumption means saving money and the planet.

Check out: The New Joneses, Precious Plastics Melbourne

Convenience is trash. Literally and figuratively. That’s the convenience of goods so cheap that there’s hardly an item we own that we’d consider a permanent possession. We shed stuff like snake skin, especially when moving home. If we can’t fit it in the bin for landfill we dump it at Op Shops or on the streets, where it still mostly ends up as landfill.

Covet craftsmanship. Repair, reuse, repurpose. Borrow and share instead of buy. Reduce food waste, recycle better and reduce what you send to landfill. Doing more of any of these helps.

Check out: The Australian Library of Things Network, The New Joneses, Precious Plastics Melbourne

Whatever you do, for pay or pleasure, it’ll probably be helpful for purpose projects. Business skills, trade skills, people skills, roll up your sleeves skills, all the skills. From expert advice to skilled services, your unique abilities are needed somewhere.

Check out: Communiteers

The glory days of unbridled capitalism are long gone and they ain’t coming back. You can pontifcate about isms all you want (capitalism, socialism, communism, Tism), but there’s one group that isn’t part of that conversation that is actually in control of our future. And we’re not talking about the lizard illuminati (which is totally real but also irrelevant). It’s the planetary boundaries, 9 processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system that together say a big fuck you to unbridled consumption in all it’s forms.

Consume less.

Check out: Badvertising, The Meaning Transformation Guild

Our communities are showing the cracks from cost of living pressure and climate chaos. More and more people are falling below the poverty line in a system with fewer and fewer resources. It’s bloody tough out there. We need to work together to create resilient communities that look after everybody, and that means everybody needs to be involved.

On the plus side, when you get involved, community is as beautiful as it is rewarding. Get amongst it.

Check out: Australia reMade

It’s a simple equation. If the brands and businesses that do us harm get less of our money, they’re fucked. It’s voting with your dollars and at scale makes a big statement. Polluting our oceans with plastic, boycott. Funding genocide, boycott. Racist, boycott. Anti boycotts, boycott.

Look out the window and see how well the patriarchy is doing. Not well. The patriarchy is doomed, bring on the matriarchy. Support female led businesses, women in leadership roles and diversity in boardrooms.

Check out: Good for the Hood, Creatives for Climate, The New Joneses, Precious Plastics Melbourne, Mek, The Bravery, Hyloh

Who decides the rules? People in power or the people lobbying the people in power? If the rules sound like shit, look like shit, and when enforced on community, taste like shit, that’s shit. Voting is struggling to get the right rulemakers in power, so when that is failing, legislate or lawyer up. It’s people power at scale and with bite. Woof.

Art Disrupt directly supports the Fossil Ad Ban campaign in Australia and is an advocate for similar campaigns globally. Fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship is trash. Check out our killer content by Rouser Lab, The Dead Wallabies.

Check out: Fossil Ad Ban, Environmental Defenders Office

The world is rapidly changing. If cost of living doesn’t wipe out your income AI might. That’s if the pandemic didn’t already. There’s never been a more uncertain time in employment with employee rights being eroded and the gig economy somehow the new normal. Reskilling and upskilling is also a daunting task to afford or make time for but there are more resources coming out to help.

Check out: Work for Climate, Creatives for Climate

Looking after yourself is often too far down the list of priorities in the daily grind. Find space to check in on yourself, process shit, find people that get you. Meditate, copulate, masturbate, masticate, celebrate. Whatever centres you, do it unashamedly. Realising your worth and exploring methods of wellness is disruptive AF.

Check out: Artful Yoga

Feet. Scooters. Skateboards. Skis. Bicycles. Trams. Buses. Trains. Motorbikes. Cars. Boats. Yachts. Ships. Planes. All of these things get you places. Some have much bigger environmental impacts than the others. Try and do more of good ones and less of the shit ones.

Having fun is fun. Playing games is fun. Playing games, having fun and learning is next level. Play with purpose, play for the planet. Start with Art Disrupt’s gamified infotainment with the Gas Tycoon board game and retro browser game ScoMo’s Leap of Faith.