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February 2, 2013

Ladder Award to Chandran Nair for exposing the folly of encouraging a billion Asians to consume like Americans…

If we agree there will be planetary constraints if Asia's consuming class doubles in size, what will ...? What could ...?
November 11, 2011

Christchurch Post Earthquake Developmental Ladder Award Three: “Campus Central” in the Draft Central City Plan

This Ladder Award blog notes the potential for a village precinct to emerge where a creative mix of education, technological innovation, social mixing and entertainment arts induce people to socialise, study, work, live and shop.
November 9, 2011

Christchurch Post-Earthquake Developmental Ladder Award Two: The Science Alive Educational Trust

Trail-blazing potential to help to connect people where they live, learn, work and create in their localities with on-going, cutting-edge, value-creating, global technological innovation and thinking
November 7, 2011

Christchurch Post Earthquake Developmental Ladder Award One: The Enterprise Precinct and Innovation Campus (Epic) project

Having Silicon Valley-style conversations - "Why is Silicon Valley so successful? It's because all the graduates are in one place and they can bump into each other at cafes and talk about their ideas" (Nevill-Manning Christchurch Press 3 August, 2011)
October 14, 2011

Ladder Award to eight local Hornby schools in Christchurch New Zealand

The Antipodean Village Connections Blogger wishes to nominate eight Hornby schools for a Ladder Award for local networking to share resources in an “Urban Village” cluster.
July 11, 2011

Ladder Award: The Slow Science Academy for their work to reclaim the ivory tower as a space, with time to discuss, to wonder, and to think

We do need time to think. We do need time to digest. We do need time to misunderstand each other, especially when fostering lost dialogue between humanities and natural sciences...
June 17, 2011

Ladder Award: Martin Nowak for his mathematical explanation of “Why we need each other to succeed”

How can climates of cooperation be sustained in the face of problems like competition which make otherwise ample resources scarce?
December 29, 2010

Ladder Award proposed for Murray McCully – driving-force behind nuclear-free consensus

WikiLeaks documents confirm that New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully was a driving force in cementing in New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy
September 28, 2010

Ladder Award: Steven Johnson for his useful insights into “Where good ideas come from”

Steven Johnson is awarded a Ladder for insights into the origin of good ideas.
August 11, 2010

Ladder Award: Gareth Morgan for refreshing insights on welfare reform

When asked if he would support work schemes for people on welfare benefits, such as in the great depression, Gareth Morgan replied, “no, I would rather see people equipped for work, equipped for innovation.”
August 4, 2010

Ladder Awards: Geoffrey Palmer & John Key re UN Gaza Inquiry

With Geoffrey Palmer's appointment to head a UN inquiry re the Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, New Zealand's even-handed Middle East policy becomes something more than sitting evenly on both hands
July 27, 2010

Ladder Awards: effective Restorative Justice and publicity

Ladder award: St Thomas’s of Canterbury boys school for a highly effective Restorative Justice programme and to The Press for publicising it