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Domestic Violence During Covid - Sonia Demesa 2020 - 05 - 15 BTL by 2XX Behind the Lines and Align in the Sound teams

This week, it’s our pleasure to welcome back Dr. Stephen Mugford, who will be discussing the National Resilience Project and accompanying report established by the Institute for Integrated Economic Research and Global Access Partners, and why Trust and Social Cohesion are vital foundations for Resilience.

BIO

Stephen is a sociologist, public policy specialist and facilitator who taught at the ANU from 1974-1996 and has over 40 years experience as an educator, researcher, facilitator and change management consultant for government, military, private sector and non-government organisations. He has been both an advisor to senior leaders over many years and an active player in major change programs, preceded by a long and successful academic career, specialising in sociology and social psychology, earning a major reputation as a scholarly researcher in criminology and drug policy.

Harcourt Organic Farming Co-op is a collaboration of diverse organic farmers in Central Victoria at the former Mount Alexander Fruit Gardens site.

Scotty Foster from Co-ops Commons and Communities Canberra (CoCanberra), Radio Behind the Lines and the Align in the Sound Podcast was interviewed on the Celebrating Earth And Art show on Community Radio River FM 92.9 in Lismore, NSW.

In this session from the New Economy Network of Australia's 2020 online conference, we hear:

Liz Bassett - Sociocracy in action at Narara Ecovillage

Sonia Randhawa - Democracy Reimagined: Experiments in deliberation around the world

Sara Motta - Democracy (M)otherwise

A discussion with Peta Swarbrick and Bethany Williams about the early stages of a cross sectoral womens organisation in Canberra.

Kinglake, in Victoria, near Melbourne, suffered its own bushfire tragedy with the "black saturday" fires of 2009. Many lives were lost in those blazes.

Sue MacKinnon joins us to talk about how the local forests have recovered from those fires, and the continuing threats from logging that face them now.

Harriet has been involved in saving the forests of south east NSW (from our own government) for many years.

Today we talk about how the forest industry is trying to log areas already wounded by the massive bushfires of 2019-20.

Logging areas already suffering from a massive trauma only compounds the damage to be inflicted.

Have a listen to find out more and to help save our remaining forests from the chip mill.

Soil City Co-operative Farms is being developed in Canberra, Australia by Co-ops, Commons and Communities Canberra, or CoCanberra. In this interview it is referred to by its interim working name, the "COFE" (Community Owned Farming Enterprise) Coop.

They aim to:

Provide a stable, secure and attractive living for farmers, using the tools of:

Community ownership of land

Regenerative culture

Healing the earth / Care for the land / Regenerative farming

Localism - Local food production and ownership

Education of our members

Providing a stable, secure and attractive food production system for people, using the tools of:

Connecting people with the sources of their food

Sharing risk with the farmers through the co-operative

Food sovereignty (ownership and control of our food production system)

Education of the broader community

Our own Scotty Foster joined us with his CoCanberra hat on, to have a yarn about Soil City.

The Pre Power Co-operative system is being developed in Canberra, Australia.

Once proven, the pre-payments funding model and community development funds will give communities the power to own and control their own energy future.

"At Pre Power we see a world in which all local communities own and control enough infrastructure to meet all of their needs in a way which has positive results for people and planet.

We envision the Pre Power Co-operative System as our means to provide community owned and operated renewable energy equipment to provide for any communities electrical and energy needs."

We were joined by Tom Nockolds and BTL's own Scotty Foster to find out more about this ground breaking project.