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..tries to practise radical relating, community-building, non-violence and localism in an attempt at fulfilled life.

Melbourne
Joined August 2009
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Hi @Qantas now under 24 hours till original departure, am in COVID isolation and have been promised a call 3 times with revised flight details, including a guarantee that I'd get an update this afternoon. May I have an update?
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Change now made - thank you @Qantas - though a strangely complicated process which was as much about antiquated and unconnected systems as it was about extreme levels of customer enquiry.
With every meal, consumers have the opportunity to make climate-friendly decisions. Here are nine ways to eat with the health of the planet in mind. foodtank.com/news/2021/04/wa… via @foodtank
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Powerful pollinator guides for farms and gardens wheenbeefoundation.org.au/ne… Bee Foundation
Adrian Pyle retweeted
On Dec 1st, join 30+ leading experts, farmers, chefs and food businesses who will discuss the trends & solutions for resetting food systems. The future of the global food systems is in our hands. Register now (free!): ResettingFood.com. #ResettingFood
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"That potato you just mashed for dinner - it's not just food but a relational web that includes solar energy, soil microbes, water, farmers, climate, genetics and so on. Let's connect with food as something extraordinary." @justorussell in @ABCOGMagazine issue 121
An "hooray" for this letter in @ABCOGMagazine and the editor's reply....
"we must be willing to approach challenges with an enquiring mind and be prepared to practise radical imagination and experimentation." acumenmagazine.co.za/article…
On International Women's Day, we're taking a closer look at the legacies of 20 heroines in food activism—and honoring the contributions from hundreds of thousands other leading women in food and ag! foodtank.com/news/2020/03/20… via @foodtank
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Replying to @CormacRussell
has anyone written a style guide about best practices in what might call social language? For example "the elderly" or "the disabled". Or whether one "fights" cancer or dementia? Or whether loneliness is a problem, a condition, a situation, a dilemma .... ?
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From empowering smallholder farmers in the developing world to re-imagining a more sustainable grocery store, these 14 women are changing the way we eat around the world. Here are their stories. foodtank.com/news/2019/10/14… via @foodtank
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"Schools ... have presumed that imagination and visualisation are childish or immature ways of knowing, to be superseded, as rapidly as possible, by those that are deliberate and articulate." A life of tests is no preparation for the tests of life aeon.co/essays/a-life-of-tes… @aeonmag
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Idea friendliness: small experiments related to context mailchi.mp/saveyour.town/ano…
The sequence of participative dialogue: 1. What can communities do best, alone? 2. What can communities do with a little help from outside actors? 3. What do communities need outside actors to do for them (transparently)? #ABCD
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