I led a session on the global challenges that we face at the Living Smart course in Randwick and found participants receptive and interested. The course is now in its pilot phase and provides, uniquely among local government in Sydney, a comprehensive and integrated approach to living sustainably...
Continue reading...Saturday, March 6, 2010
March 2010's Climate Action Conference was a worthwhile event that highlighted a bridgeable disconnect between the peak environment organisations, academics and grassroots movements towards sustainability...
Continue reading...Friday, February 26, 2010
The promise by NSW education department bureaucrat to punish students hacking their state-provided netbooks rewards fear, not innovation...
Continue reading...Monday, October 19, 2009
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...
Continue reading...Friday, October 2, 2009
With Future Scenarios, David Holmgren refocuses the permaculture design system on the big global issues but suggests a community-based response to addressing them...
Continue reading...Friday, October 2, 2009
The winds of late October failed to blow away those attending a series of events with permaculture co-originator, David Holmgren. David left people with food for thought about our future and how we, as communities, might respond to challenging global trends...
Continue reading...Friday, August 28, 2009
The use of the ORID method of structured conversation by sustainability educators is limited only by imagination...
Continue reading...Monday, July 20, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 1, 2004
Participatory Learning and Action makes use of diagrams such as matices, tables, maps and models to build participation into project implementation...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
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