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  ''Cooperative Prosperity & Advanced Democracy"

We stand at the crossroads of crisis and possibility. Difficult times lie ahead, bringing challenges that will test our communities, our resilience, and our ability to work together. 'Prepare and Adapt Hubs' grow out of a conviction that we can meet these challenges by building strength where it matters most:- in our local communities.

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Out of necessity our future will be forged through shared effort, collective care, and the courage to ready ourselves for the transition. Meet, connect, and establish groups focused on cooperatives, resilience, and new business ventures. Build the relationships, skills, and local capacity we will need to navigate uncertain times, where we create new possibilities and development towards an advanced democracy.

Our task is not simply to react to unjust failing systems, but to shape them: expanding human potential, and building communities that leave no one behind.

​In unity we reclaim the meaning of society: a fabric woven from creativity and shared purpose. OurHubs begins with that possibility.

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The future is shaped not only by governments or corporations, but by ordinary people building extraordinary networks of resilience and progress. Participate in a hub today. Be a spark in your local area. Prepare and Adapt Now!
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Prepare & Adapt

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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 combined tipping points by early 2030s'.

Local Hub Register. Indicate your interest for this 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.

... then Indicate A Group Preference (optional).

Join 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.

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The Crisis & Transition Substack 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.

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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. 

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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.

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                Facing The Transition With Clarity & Courage

We are entering a period of significant change and uncertainty. Across our communities, there are individual activists, community leaders, and members of system-change organizations who recognize the difficult times ahead and are already developing practical ways to strengthen local resilience. Many are providing valuable leadership and creating initiatives in their own areas. Rather than continuing to work in parallel, however, we need greater collaboration, coordination, and a united effort. Our Hubs provide a practical framework for bringing people, ideas, skills, and initiatives together so that we can move forward collectively.

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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.

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Our community hubs are 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.

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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 is 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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OurHubs.org is an initiative of social entrepreneurs committed to building stronger, more sustainable and connected communities. Our work has grown from involvement in environmental campaigns, social advancement projects and efforts to strengthen local economies and to face the resilience and prosperity challenges ahead.

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email: OU16-5114-Smithfield@

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