Hosted by CoCanberra, the launch will feature a talk by Ian, a panel including Mark Spain from SEEchange and Stina Kerans from Sun Villages, and time for questions.

Feeling overwhelmed about the state of the planet and society? Feeling powerless to help? It's a hell of a time to be alive.

Don’t Panic! You’ve got this! This book is a choose your own adventure guide to living the good life through transport, energy, stuff, nature, food and money. Find out how to take the next best steps at your pace, in your time, with your headspace, to your budget, at your stage of life, with your skills and passions, and in your local place.

Don’t Panic! We’ve got this! Together we can change the world around us. Find out how to influence and work effectively with others. And in a Canberra first appearance, Prime Minister Thishouldbeasy will tell you what we can agitate for.

Don’t Panic! Create a comfy home and a life connected to planet, people and local place. This is living the good life! Get stuck in.

Ian McBurney is an ecological sustainability practitioner who has inspired and enabled tens of thousands in business, manufacturing, government, schools and communities to move towards a better future.

He believes passionately that at this time in history when every natural system is in decline, it is people and therefore culture change that will gift us a sustainable society.

That society will be better for us in nearly every way.

We'll be more local and connected, happier, healthier, more profitable and more proud of who we are.

He’s a speaker, author, MC, entrepreneur and an educator.

• Ian has a degree in Environmental Engineering from RMIT University,
• He performed the famous Vox Bandicoot environmental theatre,
• helped to shape the Sustainability Street Approach,
• ran his consulting business Live ecoLogical
• He cofounded
• the Bendigo Sustainability Group,
• Synergize Co-working Hub,
• bHive sharing economy Cooperative
• the Greater Bendigo Climate Collaboration.