It is up to each of us as individuals to decide what we have to do, whether to be bystanders or to act. Hamlet lamented, ‘The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite, / That ever I was born to set it right!’;1 indeed, many feel an unavoidable sense of duty to act. But it’s very hard to do this work alone. Most of us need collaborators, resources and t

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More important than any of the actual projects was the sense of connection, of feeling part of something, of the underlying story starting to shift. A collective reimagining of what the future could be. I began to see that our efforts were starting to become, at least in part, a different story our town told about itself. And in the process, our co

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What if the answers were to be found not in the bleak solitude of survivalism and isolation, in the tweaking of ruthless commercialism, or in the dream that some electable saviour will come riding to our rescue, but rather in reconnection to community? As we put it: ‘If we wait for governments, it will be too late. If we act as individuals, it will

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