One of my favourite things to do when I am in an airport is to cruise the bookstores and catch up on the latest publications. I often indulge in buying a book if the title and table of contents speak to me. Recently, on a trip home, I picked up The Impact Equation by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith.
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A handful of local farmers started a movement to protect Ontario's farmland and water from a $22 billion US-based Hedge Fund who planned to convert 2,300 acres of unique silt loam potato fields into an aggregate quarry that would dig more than 200 feet below the water table.
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Policy Horizons has recently published a very interesting article about policy levers. How can we make our community change efforts more impactful? One way to do this is to be aware of the policy levers and use them to your advantage to create scaled community change.
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In Public Service Clouds: The Way of the Future, Jean-Philippe Veilleux imagines a future where the ideas proposed in a the recent paper Fed Cloud: the Future of Federal Work developed by GovLab –a think tank in the U.S.-based Deloitte Federal practice that focuses on innovation in the public sector -- has become a reality.
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