Tag Archive | "Education"
In Sydney’s east, another group graduates from sustainable living courses
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...Talkfest indicates disconnect between community and peak environment organisations
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...Education bureaucrats stifle, not reward innovation
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...Understanding readiness for change
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...Future scenarios — both scary and hopeful
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...Food for thought in Sydney — two days with David Holmgren
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...ORID – strategic questioning that gets you to a decision
Friday, August 28, 2009
The use of the ORID method of structured conversation by sustainability educators is limited only by imagination...
Continue reading...Ideas diffusion – from innovation to adoption
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...Participatory Learning and Action — and how to use it
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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- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Rosemary's retrofit a good home forever
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- Yvonne Gluyas: Yes, it WAS 'Barricades"!!! Now I remember that so...
- alfredo zotti: Dr Bob Rich has given some valuable feedback on my...
- alfredo zotti: I would like to add a correction here. My wife mis...
- Merilyn Thomas: Today I was waiting for my son to have an MRI in T...
- Jane Logan: Hi Russ I am doing an assignment for uni (I am st...
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You can participate in the Future of Food website
The Plains To Plate website was set up as the communications hub for the Plains To Plate Future of Food conference in Adelaide earlier this year and continues as a service linking food system aficionados around Australia.
Why not visit your food friends and join the conversation…
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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