The legals: Our duty of care to visitors to permaculture sites
With visits to community gardens, farms and permaculture sites now popular events. perhaps it is time to think about our legal obligations in showing people our permacultures…
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Creating change: facilitating with confidence
If bad meetings are a malady, effective facilitation is the remedy. That is what this workshop with social change communications expert, Les Robinson, was about…
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It’s time for a little… passion mashing
THE OPPORTUNITY FOR some passion mashing attracted around 30 people who clustered in the meeting room at the Randwick Sustainability Hub in February this year for a workshop led by veteran social change expert, Les Robinson. Les has worked in the social change area for decades, both online and offline, and consults on programs, campaigns […]
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Communicating for change: a most useful workshop
We write. We speak. We encourage. Sometimes, we cajole. But all too often nobody listens. Even when they do listen they will not act. This is disappointing and when it happens time after time it discourages us. Master Communications for Change showed us how to communicate better…
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CoLab survey holds a mirror to permaculture practice
What is permaculture worldwide? Who practices it? Where are they? That's what The Next Big Step: Permaculture, practices, passions and priorities for collaborative working set out to find out…
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Meeting Anne
Life on the road. It's a romantic notion. It is also reality for a growing number of people. I got an insight into it when I stopped to talk with Anne…
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An end to predictable trail breakfasts
At last, we have something to break the predictabiity of breakfast on the trail…
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It’s all about… Changeology
IT WAS LATE SUMMER when thirty or so people gathered at the Randwick Community Centre for day one of the two day Changeology course with veteran social change educator, Les Robinson. Les is a tall, fit-looking man of middle age with an authoritative but casual and relaxed way about him. I first heard of Les […]
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Participatory event maps Sydney’s sharing economy
Mapping is how we make sense of landscapes. It is also how we make sense of those networks we cannot sea, such as Sydney's sharing economy. That is what March's Map Jam did in creating The Sharing May…
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Good ideas flow at Sydney urban farming event
It was the conversation rather than the presentations that made the Sydney Environment Institutes Urban Farming — Feeding the Future a source of good information and ideas.
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