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The News and musings from the yards, barrel halls and tasting panels, and from on the road traveled between.
Let’s Move – from Rights to Ethics
This paper explores the case for a move away from the current individual rights system of social relationships. The goal is to put in place a community ethics-based system which…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Worthy Invisible Education
This article comments on the loss of government attention to adult and community education.
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Work and Time – Seeing the Unseen
One of the real challenges of educational work is how to get into peoples’ consciousness and not just remain talking to the converted. It is my analysis that experts must…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Sustaining our communities
Seeing the unseen activities that contribute to sustaining our communities is vital in determining how to live more sustainably. This initiative arose out of concern that the data available for…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Sustainable Work – A New Way of Addressing the Employment Issue.
Nothing less than a re-definition of what we call ‘work’ will respond to the way in which our society is changing. Much of what people contribute to society is neither…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Stolen from future generations? The need to move to a political economy of generosity.
During the last 20 years, citizens have been taught to behave as autonomous, self-interested, utility-maximising individuals, in a culture based on individual property rights where stealing of property is illegal.
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Social Statistics – Issues and impact from a community perspective
Policy-making requires more than market mechanisms for implementation. That recognition should also be made with great caution, because the Government’s attempt over the last 20 years to incorporate as many…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Social Responsibility: Whose Agenda? Choices for the Future. The Key Word is ‘Social’!
This paper considers the space within which the State, the Public Service and Common Wealth interact. In particular, power relationships which fall outside nation-states are examined. These general issues are…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Poverties and Satisfiers: A Systems Look at Human Needs. Creating a New Democracy.
All systems have needs, whether the systems be people, families, communities, cities, economics or ecosystems. System needs are complex. They exist simultaneously, and must be addressed systemically and holistically, rather…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Leadership and the Big Picture – Inspiring Involvement
My basic assertion is that Leadership in Volunteering, from my Pakeha (those of European ancestry) understanding, requires attention to the “Big Picture”. A dozen facets of the Big Picture are…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Gifting – and the Consequences of its Absence
As more and more activities – housework, childcare, looking after the sick and the old – become monetised and institutionalised, the values that allow people to provide services to one…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |
Forgotten Women: A study of women and homelessness in Auckland, New Zealand.
There are women who are not in permanent safe or secure homes in New Zealand. Their houses are damp, cold and unsafe. The violence and poverty these women face means…continue reading
Posted on 15 October 2012 |