Community
March 18, 2011
The content of the Closing the Gap report, 2011, has been called ‘underwhelming’…and it seems SOME insightful thinking on this issue just never sees the light of day, either in political circles it seems, or in mainstream media. Government Should […]
March 16, 2011
Connecting Up 2011 is about making technology accessible, understandable AND practical. Now in its seventh year the conference focuses on how nonprofits and charities can use technology to help them do what they do even better. About The Program Connecting […]
March 15, 2011
Tina and Will Visser would like to see PWF post info re: places for grey nomads to volunteer their time in exchange for shelter, power, water for the dry season in the Northern Territory. ONE Opportunity For two dry seasons […]
March 10, 2011
There will be an intensive three day sales training program for business owners and staff who sell to ‘major accounts’ in March and April 2011. Daryl Brooke of One Tree Hill Consulting, will run the sessions over three weeks to […]
March 10, 2011
Commercial buildings are far more energy efficient than the residential sector according to data released at last week’s Green Cities 2011 Conference by property investment analyst IPD, AND commercial properties outperform non-rated buildings financially, reports The Age newspaper. Sustainability engineers […]
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 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 […]