Articles Posted in the Good Life 2.0 Category
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Learning From Nature in the Eco Village Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary
Learning from Nature By Davie Philip What do billions of years of resilience have to teach us? “Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, a mistress above all masters, are labouring in vain.”…
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Positive Action as a Sharing Economy Emerges
By Davie Philip How sharing will save the future “Our wellbeing will depend more and more on what we share with others and create together.” ~ Charles Leadbeater, author of We-Think These challenging financial…
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Community Resilience In A Changing World – An Intrinsic Revolution
The Good Life 2.0 – Valuing Community and Collaboration By Davie Philip If we really want to make the transition to a world that is healthy, sustainable and just, what values would society need to…
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Collaborating for the Future We Want
The Good Life 2.0 - Community Resilience In A Changing World Collaborating for the Future We Want By Davie Philip “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” ~ Henry Ford…
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Rethinking Co-operation
By Davie Philip “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” ~ Benjamin Franklin With the slowdown in the economy and low emloyment rates, could we be doing more…
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The Fertile Edge of Resilence
The Fertile Edge of Resilence By Davie Philip “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you…
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‘A Community Supported Harvest’
By Davie Philip In this Good Life 2.0 column, over the last two years, I have introduced a number of strategies and initiatives that I think could help us thrive, not just survive,…
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Permaculture
By Davie Philip “It is our collective responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.” ~ Dalai…
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Transformation
By Davie Philip What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.” ~ Lao Tzu In this Good Life…
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Surfing the Waves of Change
By Davie Philip “Wave Riders are curious people possessed of an innate capacity to go with the flow, constantly seizing upon opportunity when others see no possibility, or even disaster.” Harrison Owen We are truly…
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Cultivating Leadership
By Davie Philip “A true Leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.” Neale Donald Walsch Recently, with a group of Irish coaches, trainers and facilitators, I…
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Good Grief
By Davie Philip In the last issue, I looked into the need to build personal resilience and how we might go about nurturing our own ability to deal with the dramatic changes that come upon…
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The Good Life 2.0 – Spring 2010
Community resilience in a changing world By Davie Philip Personal Resilience A week before Christmas, I moved into one of the first houses to be occupied in the Cloughjordan Ecovillage. After ten years of being…
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The Good Life 2.0 – Winter 2009
By Davie Philip In this regular column, I explore how we can make the transition to a more sustainable way of life, one that is community based, ethical, healthy and resilient. Growing Our Own Food…
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The Good Life 2.0 – Autumn 2009
By Davie Philip If you managed to get to any of the big music festivals this summer, you might have got a whiff of ‘Green’. It seems like every music festival these days is flaunting…
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The Good Life 2.0 – Summer 2009
THE RE-BUILDING OF LOCAL RESILIENCE In the last issue I introduced the notion of a Good Life 2.0, an aspiration for self reliance for the 21st century based on community systems. Ten years ago I…
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The Good Life 2.0
by Davie Philip. Web 2.0 is the term that has come to signify the new upgraded internet, which is community based, interactive and user-driven. What I want to explore in this article is a ‘Good…
