Projects we are involved with ...
Listed here are some of the projects we are currently, or recently involved with. Some are voluntary, others are paid; some are well under way, or recently completed, while others are just starting; some will continue for years while others will fall aside for any number of reasons.
As I'm sure you'll appreciate, for confidentiality reasons, its not always possible to give all the details about a project or a client especially when a project is just starting, this page is to give a flavor of the kinds of projects we get involved with.
Please email mitra@mitra
- Nature's Child: Creating a wholesale and manufacturing division for this retailer of natural baby and early childhood products. www.natureschild.com
- Zelfo Australia: Working with the inventors of a plastic like material made out of hemp fiber to raise finance and create a business in Australia.
- Byron Sustainable Ventures Network: Bringing together business people who are as concerned about the environment and their community as about being economically successful. www.naturalinnovation.org/byronsvn
- Gaia University: On the advisory board for a new distributed international university, bringing accreditation to sustainability education. www.gaiauniversity.org
- Downshifting Downunder: Part of the core group of a new organisation, being created to catalyse the trend of people to voluntarily reduce their work, incomes, spending and consumption. www.downshifting.net.au
- Green Wealth: Collaborating on a book with Jenni Cargill that asks the question - "Can you be wealthy *and* green?"
- Post Normal Times: I'm on the advisory board of this website documenting science and politics in areas - like climate change - where things are getting hard to predict. www.postnormaltimes.org
- Social and Environmental Technologies Inventors Challenge: I'm one of the advisors for this competition. www.set-info.com
- Papyrus Australia: Worked to build a company that makes paper from banana waste using no chemicals, no water and minimal power. Its a world-first, producing paper that is water, grease and flame resistant and stronger, and went public on the ASX in April 2005. www.papyrusaustralia.org.au
- Adult Community Education: Managed a project on Community Knowledge Management for Regional Sustainable Development.
- Association for Progressive Communications: We have worked with the APC as part of the team developing its open-source Content Management System to better meet the needs of smaller community groups. www.apc.org/actionapps
- Byron Innovators Network: One of the organizers of the launch of a network to bring together innovators in the shire, and part of the mentoring team that came out of it.
- Climate Friendly: We helped them design the prototype of their web site dealing with climate change and emission reductions and offsets. www.climatefriendly.com
- Institute for Global Communications (EcoNet): I am on the board of IGC, and have consulted and assisted IGC on and off since 1989. www.igc.org
- Rural Landsharing Community Association: On the core group, main project has been to reach consensus on changing the legal status of local communities from MO to CT, and then working with councillors and council staff to address their concerns leading to change in rules to allow this transition.
- Southern Cross University - Center for Plant Conservation Genetics: Produced investment raising materials for a couple of (non-GMO) projects. www.scu.edu.au/research/cpcg
- Sustainability
Talks: We have been organizing talks on sustainability
for interesting people visiting the region. Talks are
organized near Byron Bay and in collaboration with Leigh
Davison of SCU in, Lismore and with Robyn Francis of ERDA
in Nimbin. Talks included David Holmgren, Declan Kennedy and Peter Harper. If you are, or know of, someone who works in
sustainability and is heading this way and are interested
in giving a talk or workshop while you are here then please
email mitra@mitra
.biz. - Tyagarah Sustainable Community Alliance (Tyagarah Progress Association): Communications officer. I manage most communications for this association, including an actively updated web site, which I use as an example of how community groups can effectively use the web. www.tyagarah.org
