Local Futures
September 14, 2012
Did you see Ticky Fullerton’s (ABC) interview with US economist Richard Duncan – author of The New Depression:The Breakdown of The Paper Money Economy – Monday night? Quite fascinating. Following is Forbes’ summary of Richard’s evaluation of where the world […]
September 13, 2012
This video comes via the New York Times and a concerned PWF reader. It profiles an American NSA (National Security Agency) whistle-blower who became concerned post 9/11 that the top-secret electronic surveillance spy program he had helped write was being […]
September 12, 2012
What is the aim of Free Money Day? To raise awareness and start conversations about the benefits of economies based on sharing, as well as offer a liberating experience to inspire more critical and creative thinking about our relationships with […]
September 12, 2012
Julian Burnside, respected barrister and human rights advocate probably speaks fpr a lot of us when he says: “Those of us who are torn between the desert of mainstream media and the jungle of the internet need a place where […]
September 12, 2012
The Victorian Government is proposing changes to Melbourne’s much-loved Green Wedges WITHOUT wide community consultation. Do you remember the 1994 community-based High Court challenge to stop legislation allowing a Japanese downhill ski development on Mt Stirling, linking it via chairlift […]
August 17, 2012
For women in the third world a bra is often unobtainable or unaffordable. Project Uplift! collects new and second hand bras and sends them wherever we have requests. Indigenous women in isolated communities have no access to bras and when […]
August 16, 2012
Had you, like me, been wondering exactly what has happened in the VET sector to cause the Baillieu Government to act so harshly with the TAFEs? Ben Eltham on crowd-funded New Matilda explains: “According to the policy experts and union […]
August 9, 2012
Dramatic changes in demand meaning Australia needs virtually no new coal or gas baseload generation over the next decade plus the development of new water and salt-based batteries at WA’s Murdoch Uni signal change. Decreasing Demand And Growth In Small-Scale […]
August 9, 2012
The US city of Seattle has plans for a ‘food forest’ for the city. It wants to make blueberry picking a neighbourly activity. Permaculture And Foraging It IS great to pick food growing in a backyard and the vision of […]
August 9, 2012
Do energy consumers want a smart grid, or no grid at all, asks Giles Parkinson. He writes in Reneweconomy: “Very seldom do you get people who get mad as hell about electricity prices and go off grid. It simply costs […]
August 8, 2012
A new social enterprise – Clockwork By Cycle Couriers – will offer local same day deliveries by bicycle in Nillumbik Shire in Melbourne’s outer NE. 100% of the profit will go back into Nillumbik Community Health Service and a new […]
August 7, 2012
In outer NE Melbourne, Croydon’s Yarrunga Community Centre will run an affordable, accessible short course on Permaculture Oct- Nov 2012. On the basis of wanting to share knowledge of these important principles Yarrunga has won some government funding. About The […]