John Croft

Writings on the Internet

Community Development

 

The Millennium Bug

http://www.communityquarterly.org.au/48bug.htm

http://www.communityquarterly.org.au/48mobil.htm

 

Sustainability

Links available on the Internet (from a 63 page precis document)

http://csf.colorado.edu/sustainability/theory.html

 

Writings on LETSystems

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

 

The Problem Of Over-Accumulation: Examining And Theorising The Structural Form Of LETS

http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/ijccr/volume1/1mj.htm

 

Eco-Psychology

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

 

Writings on Archaeology and Linguistics

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

 

Indigenous Peoples

http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/91c/0108.html

http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/91b/0022.html