This is a spontaneous meeting space for Villagers - step onto the virtual Soap Box and share your top-of-brain notions and passions, opinions, knowledge or a story.
The brewing of ideas will help the whole Village to better understand itself and its possibilities.
It can also help generate everyday material and reality checks for academics and policymakers to collaborate in brokering robust solutions that the Villagers want.

The Soap Box

Framing coherent, flourishing community, economic and foreign policy

Successful small countries that offer some cues are Switzerland and Singapore. In their own ways, they have each turned their small size to positive account.

10th August 2010

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Awakening grassroots energy by Richard K Moore

Richard Moore defines some obstacles to dialog in localization movements, and shifts the focus from problems to solutions.

19th July 2010

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The Emergence of Localism by Richard K Moore

Localization activists have motivation and vision, however, according to Richard Moore, “none of these initiatives has found a way to escape from marginalism and really begin to have a significant effect on any community’s economy, or to move any community significantly closer to sustainability.” He takes a closer look at localization initiatives in order to understand why.

9th July 2010

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Why I wish to write about Oamaru…

Erin writes: South Island has always been stereotyped as “more racist” by many of my Asian friends but I can tell you, we did not feel that at all in Oamaru.

2nd May 2010

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Turkey & New Zealand – From World War One Antagonists to Peacemaking Partners?

There was, and remains, an opportunity to forge a new kind of partnership for peace with the Turkey that New Zealand fought against in world war one.

28th April 2010

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