Collaboration …or not
June 22, 2009
The Augustine Centre and Borderlands Co-operative – partner in the Oases Masters Program in Hawthorn, Melbourne – will host a July workshop with Dr Caresse Cranwell – Transformative Activism – Exploring the links between self-awareness, inter-personal capacity and eco-social transformation. […]
June 17, 2009
PWF has just reported the upcoming Social Traders/TREES Group social enterprise presentation on unemployment and community regeneration in Melbourne and we’ve checked out what some of the businesses in The TREES Group are doing in the UK. Thorpete Gas Services […]
June 16, 2009
Given our water problems, I found this Treehugger article informative, fascinating, frightening (?) More stuff to store at the back of the mind! Note: In general these figures come from Waterfootprint.org (pdf file) and represent gallons of water consumed per […]
June 15, 2009
A new video channel ‘Survival of the Fastest’ was written up in The Weekend Australian, 14-15 June 2009. This is a collaborative effort between You Tube, the London Business School and Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper. The aim Collect ideas and […]
June 12, 2009
Admin Bandit, developed for community organisations has won heaps of accolades, as has its developer, entrepreneur and Canberra mother of two, Nerida Gill, who is passionate about making that ‘hard to fill job’ of treasurer easier and so supporting hardworking […]
June 11, 2009
Social Traders is a collaborative effort between the Victorian State Government, a private family trust and a consortium of community sector organisations with broad experience in social enterprise development. It aims to ‘facilitate, support and advocate for the development of […]
June 10, 2009
This morning I see Treeehugger is reporting that the German town of Lünen will become the first in the world to have its own dedicated biogas network – something for our Transition Towns to think about? “The 6.8 MW power […]
June 4, 2009
With all that rain in NSW people are again saying “Grafton floodwaters would save Murray-Darling—build the Clarence Scheme!” Are some of the old ideas gaining currency? I was fascinated by the following; The Bradfield Water Schemes – for ‘nouveaux’ engineers […]
June 3, 2009
‘Freedom from Fear’ is the theme for Refugee Week 2009 – 14-20 June and the Fitzroy Learning Network (FLN) in inner Melbourne. FLN is inviting people to help celebrate their refugee clients’ lives here and our aspirations for freedom for […]
June 2, 2009
We hear from Shane Strudwick on behalf Victoria’s Murray River tourism community that they have developed and recently launched one of Australia’s first tourism specific mobile phone and devices web site. What Does This Mean? Via your mobile phone there […]
May 30, 2009
After several years of a worthy effort at community engagement WHY is the Victorian Government taking such a heavy-handed non-communicative approach to merging two hard-working community-based groups achieving heaps ‘on the smell of an oily rag’! The Groups Reconciliation Victoria […]
May 29, 2009
The latest New Economics Foundation (nef) newsletter – from the UK – asks: “Are you feeling fed up with the way politics currently operates? Tired of mainstream parties not taking action about the things that matter most? Furious about the […]