The intention with cooperatives is often completely wrong. Communities choose co operatives as a means of accessing funds, and co operatives are intended to create opportunities to cooperate with one another. The people in communities see it as an entity to gain resources and the working relationships between people in ...
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Spekboom Rehabilitation Project
We are at the Kokskei Mountains in the Karoo, at a farm called “Welgevonden”, which has been in the Rudman family for the past 200 odd years, and during that time the farm has been overgrazed, mainly by sheep and goat farming, which is more conducive to the type of ...
Read More »JOHN D LIU – Questions to the Panel
We have some smushed questions. Question: “If you could give us one practical tip that would help us to make a difference, what would it be? Angus McIntosh: I alluded to it earlier. You vote with your fork. The fork is the most powerful thing that we have, so you ...
Read More »JOHN D LIU – Panel Presentations Part 2
Welcome back to the second part of the program. I am shifting my role to be a moderator and we have a panel. Mark Swilling: Thank you, John, for the multiple stories of the movement for regeneration. I’m a professor at Stellenbosch University and head up the center for complex ...
Read More »JOHN D LIU – SINAI PROJECT
3 Years ago, the project manager of doubling the size of the Suez Canal was asked by an Egyptian General. The general said, “Everyone wants to work in the Nile Valley, it’s all they can imagine because that’s where the water is. Nobody wants to do anything else. All the ...
Read More »JOHN D LIU GREAT WORKS OF OUR TIME SPIER
We built a house 30 years ago in China. We had actually been in China for 40 years, and 30 years ago we built the house and we all grew old. And as I mentioned my father past away in December. And what happened to me was that in 1979, ...
Read More »Nordic African Media Hub – Future of Mobility South Africa
An amazing short video on electric cars.
Read More »Planet Earth – As We Eat Our Way To Extinction
Green Gold – How to restore damaged ecosystems
I had heard about John D Liu before and have often been advised to watch his you tube show Green Gold. Finally after an age (literally 5 years) I got round to watching it. What a revelation it was, basically not only an indication that we can restore damaged ecosystems ...
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