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 have begun an enquiry into what ...

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 us. I believe that, as well as ...

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 involved in this sustainable community project, I have finally ...

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 - Together Community Supported Agriculture We live in interesting times. ...

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 ...

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 met the late ...

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 Life 2.0’ - an upgrade for the ...