Local Futures
June 24, 2011
Hepburn Wind is Australia’s first community-owned wind farm and in central Victoria it has just begun exporting energy to the electricity grid. Congratulations! Premier’s Sustainability Award For Community Engagement There has been considerable interest in the project from universities and […]
June 21, 2011
At the moment there are a lot of people in Melbourne – and the rest of the country? – delving into new ways of thinking to address the future and our current problems, for example: Gathering ’11 The Melbourne Hub […]
June 21, 2011
Should we change the way teachers teach and students learn? “Unless there is change, our kids will be stuck in the dark industrialised ages.. The leaders in our schools will have to be skilled in change management,” says secondary teacher […]
June 19, 2011
This info on the ‘Cities Most Prepared For Climate Change’ I found on Fast Company, collated by Ariel Schwartz. Very interesting to see the local government action around the world. As more than half the people on Earth now live […]
June 19, 2011
Did you read Peter Shergold’s thoughts on how to get welfare actually working, published this week on The Conversation? Peter Shergold – Centre for Social Impact, University of NSW – says as a senior public servant he felt “too many […]
June 17, 2011
Jim Diers and Cormac Russell – two of the world’s leading community development practitioners – will be available to conduct workshops and other events throughout September 2011. Both are currently working at the highest level with the British Government on […]
June 3, 2011
A central Victorian PWF reader tells us a well-meaning 2 May media release from the Powerline Bushfire Safety Taskforce, about community info meetings, only reached her yesterday, 1 June. She is concerned Gippsland and Mitchell Shire survivors will have been […]
June 1, 2011
Social Traders and the Melbourne Business School’s Asia Pacific Leadership Centre will host a one day forum aiming to bring together people who manage and invest in social enterprises and anyone who is interested in learning about or helping in […]
May 29, 2011
London-based global economics magazine ‘The Economist’ – has praised our successes but damned our political leaders for failing to make the most of the China boom. Survey Of Australia SOME POINTS MADE: The political leaders…are perhaps the least impressive feature […]
May 29, 2011
World Challenge is a global competition to identify and reward people and groups that bring economic, social and environmental benefits to their local communities. It is run by the BBC World News and Newsweek, and Shell. BBC presenter and sustainable […]
May 29, 2011
Happy to pass on Infoxchange Australia advice that it is launching a ‘suite of cloud based applications aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the not-for-profit sector’. About The Cloud Apps AppPac4nfp brings together Microsoft’s cloud based CRM, collaboration […]
May 17, 2011
WA Education Minister Dr Liz Constable has announced a new initiative to allow schools with high proportions of Aboriginal students to break away from traditional schooling constraints. She says: “The Aboriginal Network Schools initiative.. would free-up principals and teachers to […]