People Systems
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Laying the Groundwork for a New Intentional Community in New Zealand
Shifts and Closures The Koanga Institute originally developed out of a mission to save heritage seeds in New Zealand. Over…
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Pinky’s Scary School Nightmare – and Deschooling Society
From looking at site stats, I see that significant numbers of people have read my recent ‘Carbon Trading – and…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – Sarvodaya Builds Community and National Resilience
Part IV of a series – If you haven’t already, please read Part I, Part II and Part III before…
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In Transition – the Movie
In Transition 1.0: from oil dependence to local resilience, available now! The title says it all. Sit back and enjoy…
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An Urban Gardener Feeds a Community
Bronwyn’s urban backyard is teeming with diversity. It is providing local families with nutritious food through her Community Supported Agriculture…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement and the ‘Third Way’
Part III of a series – If you haven’t already, please read Part I and Part II before continuing. This…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, and the Ten Basic Needs
Part II of a series – If you haven’t already, read Part I before continuing. What do we really need?…
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Letters from Sri Lanka – Does Sarvodaya Hold the Secrets to Systemic Change?
Note: Despite the title’s preamble, I’m no longer actually in Sri Lanka. Over the next weeks I’ll be writing a…
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A Better Way of Making a Living
Making a living in our modern culture usually requires that you participate in the destruction of the world. We can’t…
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The ‘Sustainable (R)evolution’ Book Project
Have you ever wished, when explaining to someone about permaculture, you had a visual, easily accessible book that demonstrated what…
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Osama Bin Lowrider: It’s All the Same Culture
Our political discussions and media coverage are far too shallow to be useful. We must go deeper and much further…
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