Earthsharing Australia is a Georgist organisation that provides free education services on economics. Our teachings demonstrate the urgent need for the capture of resource rents for public benefit. With the capturing of this natural wealth we can reduce wealth gap pressures and curtail the motivation to exploit our resources.

We are a sister organisation to Prosper Australia. Earthsharing Australia represents the beliefs of our members more interested in green issues. However, we still maintain that we are a group from the radical centre, with resource rents providing the funding to cull taxes on productive work. A genuine economic democracy is then possible where freedom involves community interaction and self empowerment.

Many of our supporters are young people concerned about the looming twin disasters - the increasing wealth gap and the speed of climate change.

The Earthsharing website was one of the earliest georgist websites online, set up in 1996 by Bryan Kavanagh of the Land Values Research Group

To understand our movements’ long and proud history, read Prosper Australia’s About Us page

Current Projects:

Speed Renting has taken off. In the desperation of the current housing market, we’re helping people find better living arrangements. Our long term aims are to reform the way housing is seen as a speculative commodity, but this is a fun project that you may like to assist with!

Global Land Tools Network - assisting the UN Habitat’s GLTN in developing land policy tools that address Millennium Development Goal 7. Tools developed so far include the Earthsharing Game and the I Want to Live Here Project.

I Want to Live Here Film competition - a 3 minute short film competition with $3000 up for grabs to the storyteller who can best describe the root cause to the issue draining our wallets and constraining our true freedom.

Earthsharing Challenge - a dynamic weekend camp teaching students about the importance of resources and the economics behind their use. On the backburner at present…

Earthsharing’s YouTube page We have regular youtube updates on the multimedia front (next one Spring 08). We also have an upcoming documentary (due for release in 2008/09).

Get in touch and volunteer - we need online campaigners, graphic designers….you name it!