Collaboration …or not
March 9, 2011
Today the SMH reports on consumer power versus corporate power. The Berry Rural Co-operative Society, one of Australia’s smallest rural co-operatives producing fresh milk, is not suffering greatly from the supermarket milk price war. Why not? The coop’s South Coast […]
March 8, 2011
PWF recently received a moving enquiry that opened up another aspect of communal housing. Hans writes saying: “There have been lots [of PWF articles] on communal housing and that type of subject but nothing on ‘House Sharing’ and/or ‘Live In […]
March 6, 2011
Village Futures Food newsletter this week quotes G Magazine saying: “the responsibility for quality produce and sustainable land care lies not only with the farmers, but with us as consumers as well”. We ARE Part Of Our Future Recently political/economic […]
March 6, 2011
‘What does it take to make democracy work?’ What has happened to the civic organisations where citizens could once go to address shared challenges? Do civic organisations know HOW to work with citizens today? The US Kettering Foundation is tackling […]
March 2, 2011
Laura and Graham Ragless from Beltana Station – an outback cattle and sheep property in the Flinders Ranges – have contacted us about letting readers know they are always in need of a hand. The Beltana website tell us ‘this […]
March 2, 2011
A few weeks ago Graham Pyper wrote to us saying: “I am 67, a non smoker, non drinker or gambler. At 92 kgs, I am financially secure, single, no ties or baggage, quite fit, slimish, solid build. Having spent over […]
March 1, 2011
Travellers’ Aid – a Non Profit organisation that has been helping travellers ‘at the point of need’ since 1916 – and the Vic Government’s cross-government Transport Connections Program that aims to help communities work together to improve local transport, are […]
February 23, 2011
Last year PWF introduced Chris Ross and his Southern Cross Community Enterprises (SCCE) idea of an ethical, self-sustaining lottery to fund charities. SCCE has now been officially launched. The Ethical Lottery Idea This self-sustaining lottery to help Non-Profits, charities and […]
February 18, 2011
There was a social innovation Learning Festival in Melbourne in late February – based on a systemic approach not a ‘mechanistic mental model’ such as World Cafe and Open Space. A Power Camp And A Love Camp.. In Adam Kahane’s […]
February 17, 2011
HelpOut cofounder, Nathon Irvin, says: ‘We wanted to find a way that average Aussies could assist flood, cyclone or fire victims in a non-financial but practical way’. HelpOut is an online service aimed at making it easier for disaster affected […]
February 17, 2011
I see that Westpac Wonthaggi is running a free Cashflow Seminar for small businesses in Bass Coast Shire, Victoria. The question to be discussed is: “While my company generates great total annual revenues, we often find ourselves in month-to-month cash […]
February 16, 2011
Xris Reardon from Melbourne’s Third Way Theatre tells us Barbara Santos will run workshops in Brisbane for training in Aesthetics of the Theatre of the Oppressed. Barbara is the former General Manager for the Centre of Theatre of the Oppressed […]