Gilbert Rochecouste has played an enormous, behind the scenes role in shaping Melbourne to be the city it is today.
Subtle Disruptors
There is a gender imbalance amount female entrepreneurs and business founders. One Roof is a coworking community designed specifically to help correct this, designed with intentionality to meet the needs of women in business leadership.
The impression of Samuel Alexander that lingers most is his empathy for our planet and his fellow humans, his willingness to challenge what it means to flourish as a human, and the alignment of what he talks and writes about with the way he lives.
There are obvious problems to the economic system we have created for ourselves, but no obvious solutions. Jodie has created a platform to enable a sharing economy, a system she sees as one they could help us transition from what we have now to something more inclusive and connecting.
There seems to be a paradox with constraints: when we choose the bring certain constraints into our life, they seem to help us think and act in less constrained ways. For this week’s guest, choosing to live with some carefully selected constraints are a feature of her life and work.
More and more of us are going to find ourselves living in apartment type housing, and living in closer proximity to our neighbours. How then can we make this experience as good as possible, so that we enjoy and actually thrive in this new set-up, rather than feeling more isolated and unwell?
Understanding and accepting ourselves as individuals and as a species; and understanding where we are in space, time, history, biology and ecology: for me these are two of the most important subtle disruptions we can make in our own lives, and two things of which this week’s guest is an exemplar.
The little caravan, and little shop, that is a place for people to gather, make, connect and be heard.
Growing our own food makes us more likely to eat healthily, be aware of our food system, and to get those happiness inducing soil microbes onto our fingers. In a city that becomes more densely populated by the day, where do we find the land to grow this food?
Maria Cameron talks about the suburban community that has emerged around her without a manifesto, without planning, but as an outcome of the small daily decisions made about what it means to them to live a good and ethical life.