#117 Creating resilience...for every town.
We've set ourselves a gargantuan task of creating a program to help communities change their economies from one that is negatively dictated to by globalisation to one that is positively charged by localisation.
We'd love you to follow our journey, join in, take part, help out if you can. You can follow us best by starting here; http://www.livingcommunities.com.au
The experiment is actually running our program in three pilot projects. We're looking for towns that want to take it on and someone to fund it!
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This is really interesting Greg, have you had any successes so far? It would be great to hear from regional town residents' experiments in living locally.
It seems Living Communities is a taking localisation to a service & infrastructure level. Have you heard of the efforts of Woking in the UK? Allan Jones, CEO of the London Climate Change Agency talks about developing local sustainable community
energy systems here http://cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/podcasts/citytalks/GreenTransfomers.asp
Thanks Kate,
We're building our team at the moment. But we have many towns ready to go, champing at the bit so to speak. Innovative, passionate communities who want to get off the reliance on economies forced upon them and create their own futures. You'd be surprised at what type of communities have embraced this idea.
Our funding is what is really the focus at the moment...funding us and the projects. Can you spare a dime?
Actually, what I'd love to know is if there are any economists, community engagement experts, business advisors, environmental scientists, architects, place-makers etc. who want to change the world... not just have a career. They should get in touch.
One thing we are acutely aware of is that there are plenty of people who provide these services in isolation, maybe one or two combinations...who does it as a total program? We do. Well, at least we're gearing up to conduct the experiment.
We're basically getting tired of seeing more report writers visit communities. And believe me, so are the communities. We want to see implementable actions. No more talk...no more reports...
We have the support of 3 major universities in WA who want to study us.
And thanks for the link by the way. I'll definitely check it out.
Would something like this be a useful source of funding for the living communities project? http://www.interraproject.org/
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