Co-founder

Economics | Climate | Creative Industries

Jodi is an environmental economist, creative producer and community organiser. Her areas of interest are cultural responses to climate change, new economic systems that work for people and environment, and co-design approaches for planning and innovation. 

Jodi has enjoyed a 25+ year career consulting to government, NGOs and business across Europe and Australia on natural resource management, decision-making and policy design. 

Since moving to Castlemaine she has  worked within local government, leading strategy and research on climate action, sustainability and circular economy. 

Jodi is also founding director of Carbon Arts, a business trialling creative sector-led approaches to catalysing systems change with Australian and international artists since 2011. 

Her pet interest is community currencies, for which she delivered a TEDx talk in 2025, building on the Castlemaine Currency project, which brought together economics and creative industries. 

BChemEng (Hons), MScEnvEcon.

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