Local Futures
October 12, 2011
Natalie Parcell of Village Futures Food (VFF) – a community supported agriculture enterprise – is now offering a weekly menu of home made soups and curries, as well as supplying fresh, weekly, organic, GM free boxes of veggies to Nillumbik […]
October 11, 2011
The impact of children’s disconnection with nature shows in the decline in wellbeing and cognitive and physical health says Curtin University Education lecturer and researcher, Sonja Kuzich. Kids Feel ‘Hopelessness’.. Environmental Sociologist Angela Wardell-Johnson says: “It [is] important to celebrate […]
October 11, 2011
An in-store spy – the new iPhone Field Agent app as tweeted by Business Your Way, now pays shoppers to provide retailers with in-store intelligence such as staff performance and competitor pricing. Launched in Australia in September, retailers can now […]
October 4, 2011
Congregations, community service agencies, aged care facilities, schools and the central offices of the Uniting Church in Tasmania and Victoria are setting a strong community example with the Synod’s decision to reduce gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020. […]
October 2, 2011
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is warning that we need to act on global food security to avoid political chaos and environmental refugees. He notes that the Middle-East upheaval started with protests about the high cost of bread. He says we […]
October 2, 2011
The weekend sees Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas take off and there are lots of Australian cities running TEDx ‘fests’. About TED TED (Technology, Environment, Design) is a global ideas movement that posts ‘ideas worth spreading’ online. It covers a […]
October 2, 2011
Social enterprises are organisations that trade to fulfill their social or community mission and Nina Yousefpour from Queensland University of Technology has emailed PWF, asking social enterprises to participate in and pass on their web survey into strategic orientation of […]
October 2, 2011
Have you heard about Infoxchange Australia‘s new role for its social enterprise, GreenPC? Sorting & Recycling Old Technology Pilot For 10 years GreenPC has been re-manufacturing computers and laptops and making them available at low cost to health care card […]
September 25, 2011
Adam Bandt will host a public forum on Wednesday 28th September at 6.30 pm to discuss alternatives to mandatory detention and offshore processing for asylum seekers. “Behind Barbed Wire: Mandatory Detention and the Malaysian Deal” will be held at the […]
September 25, 2011
It is possible, as part of carbon farming, that breeding crops with deeper roots could stop CO2 increase ‘stone dead’ says the Carbon Coalition Against Global Warming. What Is Carbon Farming? Carbon Farming is farming in a way that reduces […]
August 24, 2011
Victoria’s award-winning prevention and early intervention program Solving the Jigsaw picks up where society has failed. A Program For Teachers, Parents, Students By changing the culture of violence to one of well-being, Solving the Jigsaw helps Primary and Secondary kids […]
August 23, 2011
Farsighted community activists see BEYOND short-term politics and act accordingly, avoiding wasting precious funds as occurs when policies are imposed ‘top down’ without community involvement, understanding or acceptance. The Dialogue to Change program in disadvantaged country Victoria has helped Maryborough […]