NORBERT WIENER would have approved. So would have Marshall McLuhan. It was an example of how digital communications has amplified the capacity of small groups to take action and of how new communications media has changed our culture, just as McLuhan predicted it would.
Read MoreIT'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...
Read MoreThis 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 Bay while living there then. I suspect much I wrote remains true...
Read MoreNever 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 […]
Read MoreHOW DO YOU ACCOUNT for the different way that life turns out for people, even when they share much in common?
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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...
Read MoreA speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern Ocean...
Read MoreThe Permaculture Institute's abandonment of its permaculture teacher registration offers an interregnum in which to review and modernise the Permaculture Design Certificate...
Read MoreTwo declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance's Hungry for Change Food Summit of October 2009...
Read MoreTwo declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Plains To Plate food convergence that took place in Adealide, South Australia, in February 2010...
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