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ORID – strategic questioning that gets you to a decision

The use of the ORID method of structured conversation by sustainability educators is limited only by imagination...

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Day 2: Ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden

Day 2 of the rehabilitation of the Barrett House footpath garden planter in Randwick saw the creation of a new, food-producing garden...

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Entrepreneurship the means to get good things done, says Ernesto Sirolli

Social entrepreneurs, small business entrepreneurs... these are ways to get things done, and even council workers can use their power to become civic entrepreneurs says Ernesto Sirolli...

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Public narrative the approach at food system talk

I made use of the Public Narrative approach in a recent structured conversation about food exchanges at the Transition Bondi Wednesday evening soiree...

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Participatory Learning and Action — and how to use it

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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Sun shines on National permaculture Day 2011 at Hub

The sun shone from a blue sky onto visitors at National Permaculture Day 2011 at Randwick Sustainability Education Hub...

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From energy glutton to energy efficiency… a new centre for learning in Randwick

In Randwick, a humble and environmentally inefficient community centre has been turned into an innovative sustainability hub—a learning and demonstration centre imagined around the sustainable use of our water, energy and food...

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A new kind of public park

How do you combine an area of boring, low quality lawn, a gas barbecue and a few tables and bench seats and a couple council education courses into a cohesive area of public open space? The answer: create a new kind of public open space...

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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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Ideas diffusion – from innovation to adoption

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 […]

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