People, Planet, Profit!
October 2, 2007
Several readers have written in about the 100 mile diet, and in my search for more info I found this rather frightening piece published on Kindred – one family, one world. The Frightening Stuff And Why You May Choose To […]
September 30, 2007
Civic Voice (CV) in the NSW Central Coast – Wyong-Gosford region – is really doing something about deliberative democracy/community-based policymaking, as is the Gippsland Women’s Local Government Association (GWLGA) and Ratepayers Victoria Inc. How is democracy and the hope of […]
September 30, 2007
A reader has put us on to the ABC’s ‘From farm to family dinner’ story in Brisbane, where there is community support for local growers, (CSA) and we’ve talked about relocalisation. How do the two relate? Is the difference just […]
September 20, 2007
Heidi Lenffer from SBS Television has contacted us about a new project called Change the World in 5 Minutes, aimed at people – like PWF readers(?!) – who want to do just that! Change the World will feature nine short […]
September 19, 2007
During July 07, Seattle’s Jim Diers, author of Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way ran some inspirational workshops for communities and groups in Victoria, NSW, Western Australia and New Zealand…reported in the Bank of I.D.E.A.S. (Initiatives for the Development […]
September 13, 2007
PWF has just been contacted by Peter from the Rainbow Power Company in Nimbin, about how, with the right equipment and the gearing, the 200W power limit on electric bikes be ‘more acceptable’ in terms of hill climbing. Rainbow provides […]
September 12, 2007
With over 2.5 million hectares of salt affected land in Australia, there has been considerable interest in using salinised land and water resources to cultivate marine and estuarine finfish. The WA Maritime Training Centre in Fremantle has been investigating the […]
September 10, 2007
Local ‘Theatre for Living’ practitioner, Xris Reardon of the Taking Up Space Project, run in association with the Borderlands Coop, Melbourne, has contacted PWF about ‘Wildest Dreams’, a three day workshop that aims to: explore how we limit human potential […]
September 7, 2007
Are you on the Avaaz.org email list? Avaaz, meaning ‘Voice’ or ‘Song’ in several languages, is a ‘global community’ of people who take action on major issues facing the world today. They would like the views and values of the […]
September 5, 2007
Maleny, in the hinterland of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, is a community whose history (pdf) and current activities I find quite inspirational, and I am certainly inspired by the final draft of their vision statement that Karyn Maher has emailed to […]
September 4, 2007
I went on a Shopping with a Conscience supermarket tour last Friday night and I do confess the complexity is ALMOST overwhelming. This is just what Supermarket Buying Guide and the campaign Your dollar is your vote – who did […]
August 30, 2007
Some very important explanatory background info has just been presented by Warwick Raverty – principal scientific adviser on the Resource Planning Development Commission (RPDC) Assessment Panel for the Gunns proposal – in an article for New Matilda. The science is […]