'Restore The Balance. Build The Future'
''Toward Cooperative Prosperity & Advanced Democracy"
Local Hubs are about preparing for crisis, breakdown and collapse. We also transform towards greater social freedom through economic liberation, expanded potential based on cooperation and building local resilience in a transition we want.
This is not only about resilience or survival—it is about restoring balance from the difficult times ahead, and making the conscious choice to build what comes next as the failing systems we have relied upon are no longer viable. As climate calamity, resource scarcity, economic concentration, fragile global supply chains, and declining trust in institutions and political systems converge, the path forward is not to preserve a failing order. We create locally rooted, adaptive communities and cooperative enterprises capable of sustaining life, agency, and shared prosperity beyond the division, and conflict of greed and power by bringing universal outlook.
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We are entering a profound transition and business as usual is a growing illusion due to the escalating damage of climate change—consequences of a greed-driven economic system and extreme wealth inequality. Communities must take the lead in building economic democracy and creating a society that puts life, dignity, cooperation, and collective well being at its centre. Leadership is not something reserved for institutions or elites.
It comes from everyday people organising, forming cooperatives, building community enterprises, and strengthening genuine democratic participation.
The future is ours to shape. By working together, we can build resilient communities, reclaim economic power, and create a life-centred society. Choose a group to participate in and get going with our unity hubs.
Prepare & Adapt
Leading climate change think tank Job One For Humanity presents In-depth articles and a Plan B to help prepare for the impact of climate change that is moving faster than expected towards major tipping points by early 2030s'.
Local Hub Register. Please register here for the local hub only if you live in one of the following South Australian postcode districts: 5114, 5113, 5115, 5109, 5116, 5117, 5118, 5121, 5125, 5131, or 5133. This is a local hub website, so registration is intended for residents living within these designated postcode areas.
Use the website Forum to meet others and discuss setting up groups. Join the Give & Take exchange to share resources, skills, and support. Use the Hub Register to connect with others, whereby Facilitators help you organize, collaborate, and build connections.
The Crisis Substack & Transition shows us how to anticipate and create a strategy for a sustainable future out of the transition caused by collapse and breakdown. Cutting edge articles by social writers point the way forward.
Facilitator Teams
Apply as a team facilitator and volunteer, helping communities build enterprises, prepare for and adapt to a cooperative transition, and strengthen community-led initiatives. The facilitator’s role also includes incentives for participation, supporting meaningful work, and fostering strong community associations, including their own ventures.
Note: Applications are assessed based on the district or suburb in which you live, as determined by your residential postcode.
One organization at the vanguard of reviving local industries and escaping the extremely precarious grip of globalization that hinders local resilience, self-sufficiency, job creation, and wealth retention is Local Futures.
Facing Collapse with Courage and Clarity - Plan A Future
The accelerating crises of our time—climate breakdown, ecological collapse, economic instability, war and deepening social fragmentation—are no longer distant threats on the horizon. They are unfolding simultaneously, reinforcing one another and converging into what is increasingly described as a polycrisis.
We are not facing a collection of separate problems. These crises are interconnected, amplifying one another and placing unprecedented pressure on the systems upon which modern industrial society depends. Across climate science, ecological research and the growing adaptation and resilience movements, the warnings are becoming increasingly stark: without a radical change of course, we face the prospect of severe and potentially irreversible disruption to many of the systems that sustain modern life. . .
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Resilience is the capacity to cope with disruption and continue to function in positive ways. We build this capacity in government, groups and communities through strategy, leadership and collaboration - Australian Resilience.
OU61-5114-Smithfield Formative Groups
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Community hubs are primarily about furthering readiness for the breakdown and collapse already underway, while contributing to a better framework for the future. They provide an opportunity to move beyond the limitations of conventional political democracy by exploring a more comprehensive ways that includes economic and personalized democracy. They also assist with enterprise and income opportunities.
Explore the potential of an Advanced Democracy—one designed to work for everyone's benefit, while respecting and sustaining our communities, our environment, and life itself. This democracy encompasses the Small Business, Cooperatives and Key Industry sectors and about rational choices.
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Advertising in local hub OU61-5114-Smithfield is reserved for local ventures and social services in the following post code districts of Australia.
OU61-5114-Smithfield is a central hub linked to the following districts in Australia: 5113 : 5115 : 5109 : 5116 : 5117 5118 : 5121 : 5125 : 5131 : 5133
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