My book, OPPORTUNITIES EMERGING: Social Change in a Complex World
is now available to purchase online. For a limited period there is a 20%
discount as an opening special. In the Preface I make mention of who might find
this book useful. This is an excerpt from that Preface.
The people I most expect to read this book are those who in some ways
want to change the world or at least a tiny corner of it. Perhaps you are
fearful of the effects of climate change and have become disturbed by the
endless outpourings of carbon emissions into our atmosphere. Perhaps you are
concerned about the number of people attempting to escape the horrible
destruction of war in their homelands. Maybe you are angry about the
exploitation of peasant farmers in India or Africa and the uninformed way in
which western consumers are complicit in that exploitation.
Maybe your concerns are closer to home. Perhaps you have witnessed or
experienced the horrors of domestic violence and want to ease the burden of
victims or find ways to stop the endless cycle of abuse. Perhaps you are
concerned that your children have nowhere to play and that businesses and huge
corporations are encroaching upon playgrounds and open spaces in your
neighbourhood. Maybe you want to bring back the neighbourliness and friendliness
that has been exorcised from your local community.
Perhaps your concerns are for the non-human species living on our planet.
Perhaps you want to save the orangutans, whales or tigers from extinction, or
help preserve a patch of native bush that is the habitat of many species of
insects, birds and fish.
Whatever your concerns, you will find that there are others who share
them. There will also be those with contrary concerns, perhaps even
antagonistic. How do you go about resolving these concerns? How do you work with
those who agree with you? Importantly too, how do you work with those who
disagree with you? How do you obtain answers when you don’t even know the right
questions to ask?
This book may help you.
At present the book is only available via this link. Later it will
be available through the more commonly known web-based booksellers. The opening
special will be available for only a few weeks, so get in now at the discounted
price.
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/bruce-meder/opportunities-emerging-social-change-in-a-complex-world/paperback/product-23127543.html
Reflections, commentaries, critiques and ideas from 40 years experience in the fields of Community Development, Community Education and Social Justice. Useful tools and techniques that I have learnt also added occassionally.
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The name of this blog, Rainbow Juice, is intentional.
The rainbow signifies unity from diversity. It is holistic. The arch suggests the idea of looking at the over-arching concepts: the big picture. To create a rainbow requires air, fire (the sun) and water (raindrops) and us to see it from the earth.
Juice suggests an extract; hence rainbow juice is extracting the elements from the rainbow, translating them and making them accessible to us. Juice also refreshes us and here it symbolises our nutritional quest for understanding, compassion and enlightenment.
The rainbow signifies unity from diversity. It is holistic. The arch suggests the idea of looking at the over-arching concepts: the big picture. To create a rainbow requires air, fire (the sun) and water (raindrops) and us to see it from the earth.
Juice suggests an extract; hence rainbow juice is extracting the elements from the rainbow, translating them and making them accessible to us. Juice also refreshes us and here it symbolises our nutritional quest for understanding, compassion and enlightenment.
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Hi Bruce
ReplyDeleteIan Burn here. Congratulations for the launch of your book. I'm now general manager of Delta Trust in your old Shirley Pap patch.
I've ordered a copy for our use of your book.
all the best
Ian