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		<title>Hope and fear</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/hope-and-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a comment I made in response to an Identity Campaigningn blog post by Tim Kasser. Identity Campaigning is a blog developed as part of WWF-UK&#8217;s Strategies for Change Project.
In an open letter to the then General Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, the dissident Václav Havel wrote about the fear which made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=254&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hopenhagen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Copenhagen.
It would be easy to snipe from the sidelines about the outcome. I’ve seen UN processes at first hand so I can’t feel too surprised &#8211; the political pressures rising, the time running out, the &#8220;race to the bottom&#8221; to find the lowest common denominator when consensus is valued above the need for leadership [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=248&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steps to a resilient community</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/steps-to-a-resilient-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote recently about what a blitz spirit might look like if it did not depend for its existence on having an enemy – another country, the environment, or other people threatening our common security.
Here is one potential answer.
United Maidens is a Camden-based group of women on a local council estate. They have formed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=245&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new blitz spirit?</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/a-new-earth-blitz-spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Lovelock was interviewed last year for The Guardian. Lovelock proposed what has come to be called the Gaia hypothesis, in which he suggests that the earth maintains a complex interacting &#8211; and self-sustaining &#8211; ecological system. He recently wrote The Revenge of Gaia which argues that it is now too late to do anything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=239&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our global context</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/our-global-context/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our global context and organisational relevance.
Given that many of the scientific predictions for our global context may well become reality (as they already are in some parts of the world), what would it be like for an organisation to live and work out of this awareness?
I know for myself the pain I felt when waking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=232&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A post-consortia world?</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/a-post-consortia-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a consortia development workshop yesterday &#8211; with thanks to York Council for Voluntary Service for funding the event &#8211; to explore Voluntary Action Sheffield’s Toolkit for creating legal consortia of voluntary sector organisations.
(A quick overview if you&#8217;re unfamiliar: third sector organisations are under active encouragement &#8211; pressure, one might say &#8211; to merge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=223&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: mediation services and our global context</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/podcast-mediation-services-and-our-global-context/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spoke at Mediation Yorkshire&#8217;s Annual General Meeting earlier this month. I&#8217;ve been associated with Mediation Yorkshire since I managed a community mediation service in York in 1996. As a freelance consultant I&#8217;ve worked several times with them, most recently on supervision skills training.
My talk touches on: trends in volunteering; the contribution that mediation services [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=209&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting the global commons: citizens do it better than economics</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/protecting-the-global-commons-citizens-do-it-better-than-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winners of this year’s Nobel prize for economics have rewarded research into effective governance which lies outside traditional economic models.
In particular, laureate Elinor Ostrom has shown how community-driven projects can be more efficient than privatisation or nationalisation. User-managed examples of common property – rivers, woods, lakes etc – derive better outcomes than predicted by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=206&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New contract published by York Council – closing date 12 June 1833.</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-contract-published-by-york-council-%e2%80%93-closing-date-14-june-1833/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanted: Scavengers for the sweeping and cleansing of the streets.
A near-universal change in Western non-profit sectors has been a shift from grants to contracts for service delivery. Many Third Sector organisations are working out how – or even whether – to compete against their peers and the private sector. For many this has been a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=197&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Encouraging sustainable behaviour</title>
		<link>http://waffleanddaub.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/encouraging-sustainable-behaviour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What helps people adopt sustainable behaviours?
It has long been known that information is not enough when it comes to campaigns on obesity, smoking, teenage pregnancies etc – and the same is true for promoting efforts against climate change.
Research suggests that some messages work better than others (http://coinet.org.uk/news/2009-10-06/psychology-sustainable-behaviour). By way of summary:


People don’t worry about things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waffleanddaub.wordpress.com&blog=4476802&post=191&subd=waffleanddaub&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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