Donnie Maclurcan

Sydney, Australia

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Dr Donnie Maclurcan’s unusually diverse career has included working as an exercise physiologist and telephone counsellor, coordinator of a lobby group for Aboriginal justice and a team assisting Sydney’s homeless, a journalist at the World Social Forum in Kenya, coach of the Fijian sailing team, an English and mathematics teacher in South Korea, event manager for The Great Australian Bike Ride, nanny and wedding singer. He currently runs Project Australia - an organisation that helps people start not-for-profit projects, whilst writing books about nanotechnology and global equity/sustainability (the area of his PhD). He enjoys asking big questions, and is passionate about appropriate technology, inner creativity, radical thinking and asset-based community development. After reading E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful in 2003, he developed a strong interest in post-growth futures that, ironically, has been growing ever since.

Sharing is Common Cents

The Free Money Day experience

by Janet Newbury and Donnie Maclurcan on 13th April 2012

On September 15, 2011, people handed out their own money to complete strangers, asking recipients to pass half on to someone else. Here are our reflections on the event, and details about Free Money Day 2012.

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What We’re Reading – February, 2012

In Praise of Slowness, The Web of Life, This Changes Everything

by Joshua Nelson, Donnie Maclurcan and Jen Hinton on 10th February 2012

This is part of an ongoing series highlighting what our members are currently reading in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. This month includes In Praise of Slowness, The Web of Life, and This Changes Everything.

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What We’re Reading (and Watching!) – December, 2011

Teaching Critical Thinking, The High Price of Materialism, and New Scientist

by Donnie Maclurcan on 23rd December 2011

This is part of an ongoing series highlighting what our members are currently reading (and watching!) in the Post Growth and sustainability realms. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom by Bell Hooks Drawing from decades of life and teaching that centers social justice as it relates to race, class, and gender, bell hooks has compiled a series of thirty [...]

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Asset Mapping For The Long Haul: A Strategy For Occupy Movements

by Donnie Maclurcan on 7th December 2011

The Occupy movements can create greater internal resilience whilst simultaneously building for a huge 2012; taking the movement’s peer-to-peer nature one step further by employing a simple technique called ‘asset mapping’.

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