Tag Archive | "ideas diffusion"

A local currency that was

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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A local currency that was

Local currencies are coming back into popularity to judge by a couple issued by Transition initiatives in the UK. Australian social innovators, however, experimented with a local currency well before the British...

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Why so little influence in social decision making?

Monday, April 26, 2010

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A drive down a windy road in Hobart raises questions about the influence of the permaculture design system and why this is not something greater....

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Understanding readiness for change

Monday, October 19, 2009

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Understanding readiness for change

Behaviour change is now the focus for sustainability educators. Understanding an individual's readiness to make changes in their lives that move them towards sustainablity thinking and behaviour makes for more effective education programs and workshops...

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Print is dead… if not now, then soon

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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Print is dead… if not now, then soon

The idea of curling up in a warm, sunny corner on a cold winter’s day to bask in the screen glow of a Kindle instead of a good, paper book might sound, well... unorthodox...

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Ideas diffusion – from innovation to adoption

Monday, July 20, 2009

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Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ACCORDING TO Dr Robert Gillman – a one-time astrophysicist with NASA turned community worker and, later, publisher of In Context magazine – there is a process by which new ideas move from the creative [...]

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Permaculture – a movement in need of a history

Thursday, December 27, 2007

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Permaculture's early books emerged from a publishing context of magazines and books on alternative living and a social context of footloose youth seeking better ways of living. Despite this, the movement has as yet produced no cogent history of itself...

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