Why Sixty7.green?
In 1967, a number of environmentally positive and globally significant things happened.
In the United States, the Environmental Defense Fund was created. Guided by science and economics, it lobbied for the need to preserve the natural systems on which life depends. It really was a world first in environmental activism.
At the same time, across the Pacific, in Australia, the Tasmanian Government revoked protection provided by the Lake Peddar National Park. This action created an environmental battleground and consequently a few years later, the formation of the world’s first green party, the United Tasmania Group.
Whilst in the UK, in the same year, HRH The Prince of Wales, the heir to the British throne, went to Cambridge University. HRH read archaeology and anthropology – the beginning of a lifelong passion for the environment and sustainability, organic farming and ultimately championing action on climate change.
So 1967 seemed a significant watershed in environmental terms. It was also the year Joey Tabone, Sixty7.green Founder, was born.
Fast forward to 2021, some 54 years later and after a considerable time campaigning for the environment, first at the Australian Greenhouse Office and then at The Prince’s Charities in the UK Sixty7.green was born, registered, totally coincidentally, at 67 Canal Building, London.
67 relates to that significant year on the global environmental calendar. Green reflects our desire to put sustainability at the heart of everything we do, the advice we provide, the connections we make and the people we bring together.
The Foundation
Planned by Walter Burley Griffin and his partner and wife Marion Mahony Griffin, Canberra reflects the two main strands of planning popular in the early 1900’s, the beauty and monumental grandeur of the City Beautiful movement and the landscape and social engineering of the Garden City movement.
Joey majored in geography and politics at the Australian National University in Canberra. He then spent the good part of two decades working for the Australian Government and its Climate Change Office before joining The Prince’s Charities in the UK.
Canberra and London sparked a lifelong interest in championing sustainability, increasing access to social justice, involving communities in local planning, creating beautiful cities, and campaigning on the climate emergency.
Building on 30 years of supporting and growing government, charity and corporate partnerships, Joey started Sixty7.green to show how exemplary leadership can move mountains.
