Cultural Heritage
April 19, 2010
Darebin Council in inner Melbourne is encouraging ‘sustainable food choices’. They, and Transition Darebin, part of the Transition Town network, will work together on a $75,000 plan to trial growing produce at two sites on public land and also look […]
April 15, 2010
For me, the expression ‘Weasel Words’ captures exactly “the powerlessness and frustration we feel when confronted by meaningless words delivered with authority. Los Angeles Times about Don Watson’s www.weaselwords.com.au Although we all KNOW how words become faddish we keep on […]
April 8, 2010
Australia, with its excellent sheep country and myriad of supportive farming communities, is fundamentally suited to producing high quality merino fibre. BUT, wool producers are in decline and many small communities are feeling the impact. We are in the 21st […]
March 29, 2010
A new business – Village Futures Food – linking food producers with consumers wanting to buy fresh, seasonal produce direct from farmers in their region, has been in operation for 5 weeks now – in a modest way. What Is […]
March 28, 2010
“We must bring money back down to earth” says Woody Tasch on his Slow Money website. Last Century, Fast Money And NOW Woody continues saying: There is such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too […]
March 23, 2010
Australian business leaders came together last Friday to launch the GenerationOne campaign which aims to address the problems faced by Indigenous communities. This campaign, hopefully, will have the power to go beyond politics. Perhaps it will be able to ‘lead’ […]
March 17, 2010
The Just Add Water project aims to put 200 megalitres into the Hattah Lakes, south of Mildura in Victoria. These lakes are internationally significant for their unique wildlife and in a first for a green group, the ACF (Australian Conservation […]
March 12, 2010
The Kinglake Action Network & Development Organisation, KANDO – PWF can relate to this acronym! – is running a water Expo this weekend at trhe Kinglake Temporary Village Community Centre. It’s FREE. RSVP Please Everyone is welcome but could you […]
March 10, 2010
If you’re in Melbourne on the weekend of March 20-21, 2010, Transition Town Maroondah invites you to attend a workshop about creating a local sustainable community beyond oil dependency. Transition Town Maroondah (TTM) is a grassroots initiative working to make […]
March 10, 2010
Xris Reardon from Third-Way Theatre tells us this 5 day course, April 7-11 at Borderlands in Hawthorn, Melbourne, will cover the foundations in a Forum Play and the structuring a Forum play: plot story character development improvisations the spectator interventions […]
March 5, 2010
Below is an addition to the Draft National Indigenous Policy received from the Indigenous Stock Exchange (ISX) via their email update system. Nuclear Family Vs Extended Sharing Family? J. S Mill’s self enhancing individual ‘who saves for himself and herself […]
February 18, 2010
‘One Year On, The Future’, a documentary produced by Darren Lunny is well worth viewing. It is an excellent production and will take you 8 minutes x 4.