Collaboration …or not
February 10, 2011
After the GFC and reduced working hours, the website Dynamic Business asks if employers are accommodating a desire among many employees to achieve a balance between work, home and other interests and therefore more flexible work conditions. During the GFC, […]
February 10, 2011
Skilled Migrants NOT Finding Work? was posted on PWF in May 2008 and now, after 40 comments from all around the world, we’ve closed the comments section, BUT Dr Lech Keller-Krawczyk PhD (Monash), MA (Melbourne), BComm (Warsaw) has emailed us […]
February 5, 2011
The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) says Coles’ Down, Down’ campaign, heavily discounting staple foods like bread and dairy products, is designed to increase traffic in Coles supermarkets without considering the long-term, flow-on effects to farmers, industry and consumers. […]
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 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 24, 2011
Even people living in or near flood affected areas are not quite sure how to support their local community. Andy Henderson, the Technology Director of www.spaceout.com.au – the ‘one stop place for space’ around Oz – is offering individuals a […]
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 […]