October
October 11, 2011
An in-store spy – the new iPhone Field Agent app as tweeted by Business Your Way, now pays shoppers to provide retailers with in-store intelligence such as staff performance and competitor pricing. Launched in Australia in September, retailers can now […]
October 4, 2011
Congregations, community service agencies, aged care facilities, schools and the central offices of the Uniting Church in Tasmania and Victoria are setting a strong community example with the Synod’s decision to reduce gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020. […]
October 2, 2011
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is warning that we need to act on global food security to avoid political chaos and environmental refugees. He notes that the Middle-East upheaval started with protests about the high cost of bread. He says we […]
October 2, 2011
The weekend sees Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas take off and there are lots of Australian cities running TEDx ‘fests’. About TED TED (Technology, Environment, Design) is a global ideas movement that posts ‘ideas worth spreading’ online. It covers a […]
October 2, 2011
PWF has received another grey nomad email from a traveller seeking companions. Roy Winterburn is a single 70 year old ‘active caravanner’. He is interested in travel and in rock collecting – opals, gemstones – and in jewellery-making. Roy would […]
October 2, 2011
Social enterprises are organisations that trade to fulfill their social or community mission and Nina Yousefpour from Queensland University of Technology has emailed PWF, asking social enterprises to participate in and pass on their web survey into strategic orientation of […]
October 2, 2011
Have you heard about Infoxchange Australia‘s new role for its social enterprise, GreenPC? Sorting & Recycling Old Technology Pilot For 10 years GreenPC has been re-manufacturing computers and laptops and making them available at low cost to health care card […]