Business
February 5, 2011
PWF has just received an email and a profile for John and Jean Mack, a retired couple who are full time nomads looking for rural based roles where they can make a good contribution and hopefully supplement their pension. They […]
February 2, 2011
The Barefoot College, founded in 1972 in India, combines traditional ‘barefoot’ knowledge and demystified modern skills, creating tools for people essentially ‘written off’ by urban society. The Barefoot College works with marginalized, exploited and impoverished rural poor, living on less […]
January 31, 2011
“Why do our attempts to deal with the challenges of our time so often fail? The cause of our collective failure is that we are blind to the deeper dimension of leadership and transformational change. This ‘blind spot’ exists not […]
January 30, 2011
Are we ready for a Perfect Storm of Shortages? A recent report by AgriFood Skills Australia states: “Failure to understand the absolute urgency for action by the training system, policy makers and the industry itself will not simply become an […]
January 26, 2011
The following guest post is written by Lloyd Burrell. He has a website that offers detailed reviews of modern home desks . He tries to practice what he preaches by keeping his home office as paperless as possible. Our offices, […]
January 25, 2011
In Belgrave, in the Dandenong ranges not far from Melbourne, 86 year old former service station owner John Novrotny is persevering with his affordable building revolution, despite a lack of support from the building industry and government. His innovative new […]
January 16, 2011
As we face higher food prices and food shortages after the devastating eastern Australian floods, Ella Linwood from Sustainable Maleny (Qld) has passed on the following worryingly informative article by Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute and author […]
January 13, 2011
Liz Page from Waratah Community Land Trust in Sydney and Phil Smith from Maleny (SE Qld) have been at an international conference on CLTs. Tomorrow night in Maleny they will screen a CLT film then discuss how this model might […]
January 12, 2011
In this last week Avaaz started an email campaign asking people to sign a petition to save the world’s bee population, which scientists believe is silently dying off. The email contained links to the articles below. Do These Titles Bother […]
January 6, 2011
After the welcome announcement of grants up to $25,000 for small business/growers to help with flood clean-up and recovery, peak horticulture body Growcom has called for wider assistance due to the severity of the situation. Growcom has been contacting growers […]
December 16, 2010
I have just received an email asking me to consider “Collaborative Consumption” for Christmas: “How much stuff do you own that you will never use, DVD’s, old clothes, books, furniture, toys, appliances, gadgets, tools or even unused space? Do you […]
December 14, 2010
Some fish skin IS quite thick and tough, but I was amazed to read that there is actually a successful business producing goods crafted out of fish leather – Mermaid Leather, in Esperance WA. Back in 1989 two professional fishermen, […]