Building a network
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Community Learning for Environmental Action
Landcare Victoria Inc's peer-to-peer learning project
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rosscolliver
- Dec 23, 2020
- 4 min
Personal connections around personal passions
Mobilising capacity in the Landcare movement starts with personal connections around personal passions. Personal networks help each of us...
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rosscolliver
- Nov 17, 2020
- 3 min
Good people to have in your network
You're only as good as the people you have around you. And if you look after your personal networks, they will look after you. Photo by...
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rosscolliver
- Oct 28, 2020
- 3 min
Normal transmission will not be resumed
some thoughts on coming out of the second (big) lockdown in Melboure, Australia If this is your first visit, welcome, this is the place I...
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rosscolliver
- Oct 5, 2020
- 4 min
The round table
Friday late September, the community group Swamps, Rivers and Ranges ran a round table for people in the natural resource management...
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rosscolliver
- Aug 7, 2020
- 3 min
Leverage
A leverage point isn't an agenda or a plan: it's a starting point for influencing a living system. A leverage point is a...
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rosscolliver
- Jul 30, 2020
- 1 min
Five leverage points for strengthening networks
CLEA talked to 13 people who know the networks in the community environment sector in the NE, and asked them about networks around...
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rosscolliver
- Jul 14, 2020
- 3 min
Country living
Melbourne locks down again, but in regional Victoria people are meeting and talking almost normally. Not completely - people are still...
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rosscolliver
- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min
What to do when you don't know what to do
We want to shift attitudes to climate change, or clear the political roadblocks to renewables, or develop pasture systems that can handle...
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rosscolliver
- Jun 16, 2020
- 4 min
Working it out as you go
An innovation project needs flexibility around outputs and activities when pursuing a big, large, hairy, audacious goal like...
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rosscolliver
- Jun 10, 2020
- 3 min
Local networks keep us civilised
Networks are about self-interest and reciprocity. Networks serve our self-interest. They give us emotional support, practical help and...
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rosscolliver
- Jun 10, 2020
- 2 min
Conversations after covid
Networks are a way of making sense of what's happening in the wider world. We're coming out of lock-down. Eventually, we'll be sitting...
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rosscolliver
- May 20, 2020
- 3 min
What conversations need more attention?
Networks drive innovation around climate change, and we can power up those networks by knowing the conversations that need more...
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rosscolliver
- May 11, 2020
- 3 min
Networks
Networks drive innovation, not hierarchies. Hierarchies are good for implementation, once a new idea has taken root. Networks are good...
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rosscolliver
- Dec 11, 2018
- 2 min
The Communicators
To get your message out, give your Communicators a platform to work with. This post looks at what Loddon Plains Landcare Network has done...
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rosscolliver
- Nov 15, 2018
- 4 min
Reach out
It's strange how new usages become common parlance. A couple of weeks ago, a guy I'd worked for in government sent me an email saying he...
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rosscolliver
- Oct 29, 2018
- 2 min
"It's all about the people"
When dealing with government processes that seem to put plans ahead of people, I have sometimes heard Landcare people protesting: 'But...
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rosscolliver
- Oct 16, 2018
- 1 min
The power of slow
There's talk of slow food, and living a slower life, but what about landscape change? It's slow. It's a matter of decades, not the...
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rosscolliver
- Oct 2, 2018
- 2 min
Curlews bring them in, how to get them to stay?
Mid Loddon Landcare Network face a big problem. Bendigo is growing, and that means pressure on the farming community and the bush...
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rosscolliver
- Jun 3, 2018
- 2 min
It's like a big family dinner
We meet face-to-face and a whole lot happens—that’s peer-to-peer learning! On the basis of our Bellarine Forum, it’s clear we are on an...
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