Journal - PacificEdge

EnSpiral’s path to decentralised organisations: a workshop

How do we make better decisions in organisations? How do we restructure our organisations to create civil workplaces and better interpersonal relations? This was the focus of Patterns of Decentralised Organisations, a training session led by the people from New Zealand's EnSpiral Network co-op…

Collaborative housing the theme of Anitra Nelson’s new book

Anitra Nelson's new book, Small is Necessary — shared Living on a Shared Planet, shows us that there are viable alternatives to housing-as-usual…

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…

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…

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 […]

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…

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.

New food for hungry bushwalkers

Patagonia' showing of Unbroken Ground and the launch of Patagonia Provisions in Australia attracted a crowd of mountain sports people, surfers and others who like the company's clothing and equipment and how it is trying to reform its supply chains…

Building the alt.food food system

Here is the handout that accompanied our Australasian Permaculture Convergence 13 session in building the alternative food system…

On the food frontline: seminar highlights growing challenge of food insecurity

Not knowing where next week's meals are coming from is something fortunately unknown to most if us. But, for a growing number of people its is a real question…

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