John Croft
Writings on the Internet
Community Development
http://www.communityquarterly.org.au/48bug.htm
http://www.communityquarterly.org.au/48mobil.htm
Links available on the Internet (from a 63 page precis document)
http://csf.colorado.edu/sustainability/theory.html
This was prepared by John Croft, and edited by Warwick Rowell - warwick@bettong.EEPO.com.au . It describes the why, the how and the what of Local Economic Transfer System (LETS) schemes.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.soc.titech.ac.jp/icm/lets-faq.html+John+Croft&hl=en
Local shopping initiatives such as Project Mainstreet and the Buy Local Campaign aim to keep the heart of the community ticking. Their success would be furthered, argues John Croft from W.A., if they incorporated LETSystems flourishing in many communities across Australia. (From OZLETS Newsletter, Summer 94/95)
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~comquart/35syns/going.htm
This article was first published in Rural Society 3(4) 1993. Rural Society is published by the Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia.
http://www.csu.edu.au/research/crsr/ruralsoc/v3n4p13.htm
An article by John Croft 1993, has become a known useful tool for the assistance it provides to groups starting up. It’s called the "Hidden Treasure Review" and unfortunately our copy has some pages not 100%. We charge $10 per photocopy to cover postage and copying (it’s 128 pages).
http://www.borderlands.org.au/viclets/minutes.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/london/permaculture/mailarchives/pc-homepage/msg00277.html
http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/ijccr/volume1/1mj.htm
This article shows what we can learn from the spiritual and environmental integration of the indigenous peoples of Australia in Let the Land Sing: Lessons for a 21st Century Eco-Psychology. This article has a particularly lucid account of the often misrepresented phenomena of Aboriginal ‘Dreaming’.
http://www.ecopsychology.org/gatherings/landsong.htm
As a Leaf is to a Tree explores the many facets of Deep Ecology. DE began as a philosophical consideration, given life by Arne Naess. John Croft widens the discussion to include aspects of personal growth and empowerment, community building, community economics and environmental action that can all be held within the new paradigm of "deep ecology."
http://www.ecopsychology.org/gatherings3/croft.html
http://www.egroups.com/messagesearch/cybalist?query=John%20Croft
Note: This article is in Neo Melanesan Tok Pisin
http://cougar.ucdavis.edu/nas/terralin/tokpisin.html
http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/91c/0108.html
http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/91b/0022.html