Local Futures
April 17, 2014
The Business Council for Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) recently announced that the Co-operatives National Law (CNL) has been launched in NSW and in Victoria – a watershed day for ‘Australia’s most under-recognised sector’. “Eight in ten Australians are members of […]
April 17, 2014
During this summer’s southern heatwaves rooftop solar produced by consumers reduced overall demand by nearly 5 per cent. In the future with rooftop solar doubling/trebling (?) plus battery storage added into the mix, what would happen? Do We Need A […]
April 16, 2014
Since the election last year the Coalition for Community Energy has been working to put community energy on the policy agenda with the new Ministers. Community Energy Is Catching On Right across Australia local communities are working hard to set […]
April 16, 2014
Check out The Ideas Nest – a new collaborative effort that is “a collective of organisations dedicated to educating individuals on how small, positive lifestyle changes contribute to a sustainable future both for ourselves and for our environment”. The Ideas […]
March 25, 2014
Radio National reported this morning that Australia’s first not-for-profit real estate agency opens today in Melbourne – a model that hopefully will be rolled out across the country. Homeground Services – one of Melbourne’s largest homelessness, housing and support agencies […]
March 7, 2014
Altin, from Borderlands Cooperative, ran a preliminary ‘co-op conversation’ at the Augustine Centre in Melbourne, late last year. One outcome was a desire to start running short, very low-cost workshops to introduce people in the greater Melbourne area to co-ops […]
March 5, 2014
The Social Enterprise Awards are open for applications until Friday 28 March. Do you know an amazing business doing great things that you’d like to nominate? About The Awards The Social Enterprise Awards are the national awards for Australian social […]
February 12, 2014
Greg Foyster lives at Murundaka Cohousing Community in Heidelberg Heights, Melbourne. He’s contacted us about one of the most popular PWF articles Cohousing A New Affordable Australian Dream? (2008!) and what he calls ‘the first truly urban cohousing community’ in […]
February 6, 2014
In inner Melbourne, 3000 Acres, a food activist community group has identified 12 inner city sites to establish small community-led veg, fruit and herb gardens. Vancouver And New York Already Doing This A New York-based project called 596 Acres provided […]
January 11, 2014
A friend recently recommended ‘Nutrition And Physical Degeneration’, the classic work on how what we eat shapes us …for better and worse, by American dentist Weston A. Price (1870-1948). This 1930s dentist discovered that dental caries and crowded, crooked teeth […]
January 10, 2014
Joy Newton from Mt Ive Station in South Australia’s beautiful Gawler Ranges has contacted us again in her search for someone/a couple(?) interested in helping for just a few hours a day with general cleaning/ caretaking on their diversified sheep […]
January 10, 2014
PWF has received a thank you for the help provided – via Newcomers’ Network – in our 2008(!!) article Skilled Migrants Not Finding Work. Ross Gull, from Immigration Direct, has recommended another helpful link which we’re happy to pass on […]