Articles Posted in the Good Life 2.0 Category

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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…