Village Connections is a virtual forum for all who want a world of creative, inclusive and sustainable localities where all can meet their needs (material and aspirational). Your contribution is most welcome.
Costs of modern violence at global and local levels
How sustainable is this form of modernity, beset as it is with economic and environmental crises?
29th July 2010 Happenings
Ladder Awards: effective Restorative Justice and publicity
Ladder award: St Thomas’s of Canterbury boys school for a highly effective Restorative Justice programme and to The Press for publicising it
27th July 2010 Ladder & Shovel Awards
From an Iranian nuclear standoff to a nuclear free world
World leader and villager roles to make diplomacy work – an update
21st July 2010 Happenings
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 Soap Box
Ladder Award: to Massey University for its international epidemic-prevention programs
A Ladder Award to Massey University’s Professor Emeritus Roger Morris and Vice Chancellor Steve Maharey for an imaginative and timely international outreach program.
18th July 2010 Ladder & Shovel Awards
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
Awakening grassroots energy by Richard K Moore
The Emergence of Localism by Richard K Moore
Why I wish to write about Oamaru...
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When down a hole, it is essential to distinguish a shovel from a ladder – one gets you out, one digs you in deeper. So too, with society’s opinion- and decision-makers. You are invited to nominate any of them for a Ladder or Shovel Award, explaining to fellow Villagers why they should endorse your Award.
Ladder and Shovel Awards
Ladder Awards: effective Restorative Justice and publicity
Ladder Award: to Massey University for its international epidemic-prevention programs
Ladder Award: writer Colm Tóibín for helping us empathise with the experience of immigrants
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“Antipodean”, a New Zealand Blogger, draws on an eclectic mix of news and comment from around the world to clarify contexts which can support, or impede, people building local connections that enable them to better understand and (sustainably) fulfill their aspirations, both within their localities and in relation to the wider world beyond them.
If you come across relevant items yourself, please send them in to share.
Happenings
Costs of modern violence at global and local levels
From an Iranian nuclear standoff to a nuclear free world
The New Auckland Super City and its Communities
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"Drama is a mirror of society."-Dorothy Heathcote |
Feature Projects - See
The Unworthy Tree – a creative filmed story of a successful local development project
Trailer of “The Silent Connectors” – a film-based methodology for the local co-exploration of desirable futures
Thought for the week
"I think instead of fighting she might have been advocating; advocating for diversity in all things as ways to ensure the health and resiliency of people, places and our interconnected ecosystems."
Stephen Goldsmith referring to Jane Jacobs in interview with The Gothamist's Jake Dobkin
Recent Comments
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