Design salon 2: skilling up the local group

September 6, 2010 Participatory techniques

IT'S A REAL-WORLD INTRODUCTION to permaculture for those participating in the design of the small garden and the tour trails at Barrett House in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs...

Troubled paradise: Byron Bay faces change

July 31, 2010 Nomadics

This is an article I wrote around 2005 and which was republished in Brisbane's Courier Mail newspaper. It was stimulated by the social dynamics I found in Byron…

Ideas diffusion – from innovation to adoption

July 20, 2010 Participatory techniques

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 –…

Two families, two lives… so similar but so different

July 18, 2010 Memoir

HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT for the different way that life turns out for people, even when they share much in common?

A local currency that was

May 25, 2010 Permaculture

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…

Great conference, good people… but this is Tasmania after all

May 19, 2010 The alt.food movement

A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern Ocean...