Cultural Heritage
February 4, 2008
Emily Clark’s aduki independent press, based in Melbourne, publishes work by emerging and established authors and cover topics and issues that are often overlooked in mainstream media. Emily expects her titles to provoke discussion and debate and be a source […]
February 3, 2008
Self help is what PWF is all about, as we at the grassroots attempt the two-way (?) communication process with decisionmakers in private efforts to look after self and planet. The Mercury Centre’s Alan Greig kindly steers PWF research in […]
January 31, 2008
Tiny Maleny on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, with a population of around 2000, NEVER ceases to amaze. Apparently the Maleny Film Society is one of the largest film societies in Australia and its Maleny Film Commission has contributed a small grant […]
January 31, 2008
Anyone interested in setting up a Green Map project for their region will be interested in Judy Wicks’ approach to sustainable development. Judy is a national leader in the North American local, living economies movement. A lot of us would […]
January 31, 2008
Everything IS connected to everything else isn’t it, especially in regional areas? I found out about this tourism promotion in Get Farming! Tourism Australia (TA) and US publisher Conde Nast are jointly profiling Australia in Conde Nast’s leading travel publication,‘Traveler’. […]
December 24, 2007
Here is an update on what America’s local, living economy movement is doing. Do YOU discern a groundswell of interest here? To me there’s a strong resemblance to Leigh Baker’s approach with www.balance3.com.au. This BALLE newsletter says the movement has […]
December 15, 2007
With the aim of bringing together community land and sea managers to share stories and determine future direction, the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation hosted the 2nd National Indigenous Land and Sea Management Conference in Cardwell North Queensland, in early October 2007. […]
December 6, 2007
We have received a heartfelt request from Shane Strudwick of the Murray-Darling region to publicise their petition. Australians all know these communities are struggling with drought, massive income losses due to lack of water allocations and a huge downturn on […]
December 5, 2007
Yarraville Community Centre (YCC) and Blackwood Neighbourhood House are putting on a FREE event everyone’s invited this Sunday 9 December. It’ll be a celebration of the efforts of so many within the community to save the iconic Francis Street building. […]
November 29, 2007
The Sunshine Coast’s Maleny residents are being asked to stand up and demand democracy on Wednesday 5 December. Why? Caloundra Council has ignored 1463 forms rejecting an 18 hole golf course on the Obi Obi Parklands – Maleny Community Precinct, […]
November 19, 2007
Four months ago a Green Map for the Green Wedge Warrandyte region in Melbourne’s outer northeast was a germ of an idea. In two days’ time, in conjunction with Bendigo Bank’s launch of its Warrandyte Community Portal the Warrandyte Neighbourhood […]
November 15, 2007
Marni Cordell writing for New Matilda reports that last Wednesday in Alice Springs busloads of older Indigenous women, and some men, largely from remote communities across the Central Desert, rallied to ask the Government to listen to them, for once, […]