The proposed community food garden at Glen Junor

Liveable, sustainable communities are achievable. We just need visionary, transparent political leadership.

Across Australia, our local Councils are struggling to put aspirational policies on health, wellbeing and the environment into meaningful action. Macedon Ranges Shire Council has a rare opportunity to champion a proposal to build one of the world’s most liveable, efficient and sustainable communities at Glen Junor, close to the heart of Gisborne. It would …

Eight ‘Grand Challenges’ For Our Time, And How I Can Help You to Address Them

Prof Jeffrey Sachs, American economist, academic, public policy analyst and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, has identified eight Grand Challenges for our time[1]: Any successful city needs to be a skilled and learning environment. “E-everything“: we need high-quality fibre/wireless for all services, payments, governance, voting, etc. “Clean up after ourselves“: we …

“What matters to me”

I’m trained in community psychology. Established in 1969 in response to overtly clinical models of psychology, community psychology was one of the first disciplines to take a socioecological approach. Community psychology aims to promote positive change, health, and empowerment at the individual, organisational and community levels. What matters to me are the principles and values …