Neighbourhood Houses & Learning Centres
February 2, 2011
The Barefoot College, founded in 1972 in India, combines traditional ‘barefoot’ knowledge and demystified modern skills, creating tools for people essentially ‘written off’ by urban society. The Barefoot College works with marginalized, exploited and impoverished rural poor, living on less […]
January 31, 2011
“Why do our attempts to deal with the challenges of our time so often fail? The cause of our collective failure is that we are blind to the deeper dimension of leadership and transformational change. This ‘blind spot’ exists not […]
January 25, 2011
In Belgrave, in the Dandenong ranges not far from Melbourne, 86 year old former service station owner John Novrotny is persevering with his affordable building revolution, despite a lack of support from the building industry and government. His innovative new […]
December 15, 2010
The 22nd Women on Farms Gathering will take place at Cohuna, Gateway to the Gunbower National Park next March. This will be a 3 day Gathering of Rural Women across the state and interstate, to share: Stories Workshops Tours Inspirational […]
December 14, 2010
Mens’ Sheds aren’t as ubiquitous as Community/Neighbourhood Houses – largely a female domain – but they certainly fill a need. There are 400 Men’s Sheds around the country and some 30,000 men involved in these sheds. Thanks to a collaborative […]
December 11, 2010
The Go List, compiled by Emerald Community House with the help of community house colleagues has been nominated for the 2010 Australian Safer Communities Award and the 2010 Fire Awareness Award. Emerald, A Fire-Stressed Community Emerald, population 7000, is in […]
December 9, 2010
Post GFC skills shortages are ‘painfully obviously’ an emerging problem says Nick Greiner speaking for the mining, construction and engineering industries. “At all levels from semi-skilled upwards, the problem, certainly at Bradken [mining supplier] we are finding that it’s heading […]
November 30, 2010
There has been a lot of talk about what Australians can do to help ‘close the gap’ between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians says Bronwyn Lumby from the Centre For Cultural Competence Australia (CCCA) and this new Centre has started something […]
November 20, 2010
There is some good news from the Australian Bureau of Statistics about how our kids are playing more organised sport than at any time in the past decade. The figures show the percentage of children aged 5-14 years involved in […]
November 14, 2010
These remote area Traineeships could be very useful. They recognise the barriers to employment and training faced by young Indigenous people in remote communities. We’d love to hear from any community or group using this service? The Department of Education, […]
November 14, 2010
Having dabbled in art, design and building, I read with great interest this weekend about a new, renewable timber product and the new Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood (CSAW) at the University of Tasmania. Next year the Centre will […]
October 29, 2010
The Zero Carbon World Concert – a fossil-free weekend of fun – for a Zero Carbon World is an international series of concerts taking place worldwide during the weekend before the next UN climate summit (27/28 November 2010). The aim […]