Cycling Tourism And The International ‘Warm Showers’ Network
April 19th, 2012Staying in country Victoria over Easter I heard about http://pt.warmshowers.org/ the ‘Warm Showers’ network for the first time.
While children scrambled for Easter Eggs I heard about a French family who had just left my friend’s place in Beechworth, to …
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Facebook And Spotify – Nobbling Music Pirates?
April 19th, 2012Spotify is a music streaming service launched in Sweden in October 2008 by ‘Spotify AB’. It streams selected music from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal.
How Does It
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Managerial Politics…Lacking Moral And Civic Energy?
April 19th, 2012Michael J. Sandel, a political philosopher at Harvard ponders What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. The following raises the question of what role markets should play in public life and personal relations?
Do We Want A Market
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Less Tax On Houses…Greater Affordability
April 18th, 2012‘A fundamental truism of economics is that if you tax something, you get less of it’, writes economics lecturer Stephen Kirchner in The Conversation. This helps explain why Australia’s housing market is chronically under-supplied and affordability is an issue. …
Urban Farms, Yale And Monash, Landshare..
April 18th, 2012Melbourne’s Monash University has allowed a group of students, headed by 23 year old arts-science student Ali Majokah, to use an empty paddock which they will turn into a community market …
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