Richard Warner
@nundahcoop.bsky.social
Community worker, CEO of Nundah Co-op - a social enterprise creating dignified work for staff with disabilities and refugees.Cochlear implantee and border collie lover!
Got my hands dirty today with our garden team who maintain social housing properties. There’s a very nice tenant, who is always kind to our staff with disabilities and from refugee backgrounds - so I thanked her. She said: ‘we are all just a link in the chain’. My full dose of wisdom for the day.
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Got my hands dirty today with our garden team who maintain social housing properties. There’s a very nice tenant, who is always kind to our staff with disabilities and from refugee backgrounds - so I thanked her. She said: ‘we are all just a link in the chain’. My full dose of wisdom for the day.
Love the word joy-density!
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Love the word joy-density!
Launch of a beautiful book, published by an organisation which is a legacy of Ernst Schumacher, author of ‘Small is Beautiful’.
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Launch of a beautiful book, published by an organisation which is a legacy of Ernst Schumacher, author of ‘Small is Beautiful’.
‘Small is Beautiful’ was published by Ernst Schumacher a little over 50 years ago. This short reflection has been printed by his publishing house, in a new book called the Community Builders Journal - have a read here…
open.substack.com/pub/rdrwarne...
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Entry 30: Economics as if People Mattered
Excerpt from: 'The Community Builders Journal' which is now available for purchase from Practical Action Publishing https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3116/the-community-builders-journal
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December 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
‘Small is Beautiful’ was published by Ernst Schumacher a little over 50 years ago. This short reflection has been printed by his publishing house, in a new book called the Community Builders Journal - have a read here…
open.substack.com/pub/rdrwarne...
open.substack.com/pub/rdrwarne...
I didn’t think I’d be involved in writing a book this year!
Thanks to my six other book writing buddies and community work and Zen teachers, who have taught me how to uncover hope & build community.
A great Chrissy present.
practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3116/th...
Thanks to my six other book writing buddies and community work and Zen teachers, who have taught me how to uncover hope & build community.
A great Chrissy present.
practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3116/th...
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I didn’t think I’d be involved in writing a book this year!
Thanks to my six other book writing buddies and community work and Zen teachers, who have taught me how to uncover hope & build community.
A great Chrissy present.
practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3116/th...
Thanks to my six other book writing buddies and community work and Zen teachers, who have taught me how to uncover hope & build community.
A great Chrissy present.
practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3116/th...
I have to say this is just brilliant
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I have to say this is just brilliant
Well, I really didn’t think I’d be involved in writing a book this year! Thanks to my book writing buddies and also my community work and Zen teachers who have taught me how to uncover hope & build community.
open.substack.com/pub/rdrwarne...
open.substack.com/pub/rdrwarne...
Economics as if People Mattered
Excerpt from: 'The Community Builders Journal' which is now available for purchase from Practical Action Publishing https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3116/the-community-builders-journal
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Well, I really didn’t think I’d be involved in writing a book this year! Thanks to my book writing buddies and also my community work and Zen teachers who have taught me how to uncover hope & build community.
open.substack.com/pub/rdrwarne...
open.substack.com/pub/rdrwarne...
Bob Dylan Reading 'Twas The Night Before Christmas'
YouTube video by UncleAllan33
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November 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Mountains walking
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Mountains walking
Dusts forgotten for a while,
Drinking fresh spring rain.
Drinking fresh spring rain.
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Dusts forgotten for a while,
Drinking fresh spring rain.
Drinking fresh spring rain.
Mind blown - I never knew there was a fourth monkey. 1) see no evil 🙈 2) hear no evil 🙉 3) speak no evil 🙊 and 4) do no evil.
Along with doing good, a lifelong practice.
(Pictures of the four monkeys from a Confucian temple, Taipei, Taiwan)
Along with doing good, a lifelong practice.
(Pictures of the four monkeys from a Confucian temple, Taipei, Taiwan)
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Mind blown - I never knew there was a fourth monkey. 1) see no evil 🙈 2) hear no evil 🙉 3) speak no evil 🙊 and 4) do no evil.
Along with doing good, a lifelong practice.
(Pictures of the four monkeys from a Confucian temple, Taipei, Taiwan)
Along with doing good, a lifelong practice.
(Pictures of the four monkeys from a Confucian temple, Taipei, Taiwan)
Is Silver and Gold by Neil Young a great album- or is it just a great album? I just love it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Is Silver and Gold by Neil Young a great album- or is it just a great album? I just love it.
This reflective journal is a great Christmas gift for community builders, citizen and professional, new and old.
practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3116/th...
practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3116/th...
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This reflective journal is a great Christmas gift for community builders, citizen and professional, new and old.
practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3116/th...
practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3116/th...
We have had this interview abour our worker co-op kindly published by the UN ILO in this international year of cooperatives. It’s a powerful story of people gaining power and control over their lives through building community and engaging in cooperation.
www.ilo.org/resource/art...
www.ilo.org/resource/art...
Interview with Richard Warner, Coordinator and CEO of Nundah Community Enterprises Cooperative in Australia
“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators and social and solidarity economy (SSE) actors from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths dur...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We have had this interview abour our worker co-op kindly published by the UN ILO in this international year of cooperatives. It’s a powerful story of people gaining power and control over their lives through building community and engaging in cooperation.
www.ilo.org/resource/art...
www.ilo.org/resource/art...
Can’t believe I have this creature in my house
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Can’t believe I have this creature in my house
Sometimes wandering through thick grasses. Always on the path.
November 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Sometimes wandering through thick grasses. Always on the path.
Soaked with compassion,
all the way down.
Although we don’t always see it -
this path.
all the way down.
Although we don’t always see it -
this path.
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Soaked with compassion,
all the way down.
Although we don’t always see it -
this path.
all the way down.
Although we don’t always see it -
this path.
Joy is a ball, in gentle spring rain.
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Joy is a ball, in gentle spring rain.
Social media has proved at least one thing - we all have an opinion.
(I should clarify that by saying, the vast majority of us)
(I should clarify that by saying, the vast majority of us)
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Social media has proved at least one thing - we all have an opinion.
(I should clarify that by saying, the vast majority of us)
(I should clarify that by saying, the vast majority of us)
Self forgotten.
Before getting up to serve all beings, he has a rest,
The best of rests.
Before getting up to serve all beings, he has a rest,
The best of rests.
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Self forgotten.
Before getting up to serve all beings, he has a rest,
The best of rests.
Before getting up to serve all beings, he has a rest,
The best of rests.
Short reflection on a day's walk around Taipei, after the Social Enterprise World Forum.
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open.substack.com/pub/rdrwarne...
A day in Taipei
Beief walk into an ancient culture (Sun Mountain Zen Brisbane Dharma Talk 03/10/25).
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November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Short reflection on a day's walk around Taipei, after the Social Enterprise World Forum.
open.substack.com/pub/rdrwarne...
open.substack.com/pub/rdrwarne...
Self forgotten, compassion flows freely.
(Lin ji Huguo Temple Taipei)
(Lin ji Huguo Temple Taipei)
November 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Self forgotten, compassion flows freely.
(Lin ji Huguo Temple Taipei)
(Lin ji Huguo Temple Taipei)
‘Each coral branch reflects the moon’.
I never found this Koan easy to connect with, but when you see 400 years of branching coral growth up close, in all its diversity, it’s pretty clear - we are all the moon.
(Moon by the way in Zen= enlightenment)
Photo from Taipei’s National Palace Museum.
I never found this Koan easy to connect with, but when you see 400 years of branching coral growth up close, in all its diversity, it’s pretty clear - we are all the moon.
(Moon by the way in Zen= enlightenment)
Photo from Taipei’s National Palace Museum.
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
‘Each coral branch reflects the moon’.
I never found this Koan easy to connect with, but when you see 400 years of branching coral growth up close, in all its diversity, it’s pretty clear - we are all the moon.
(Moon by the way in Zen= enlightenment)
Photo from Taipei’s National Palace Museum.
I never found this Koan easy to connect with, but when you see 400 years of branching coral growth up close, in all its diversity, it’s pretty clear - we are all the moon.
(Moon by the way in Zen= enlightenment)
Photo from Taipei’s National Palace Museum.
At the National Palace Musuem 🇹🇼. ‘Compassion and Wisdom’ - words to be remembered, every time we cross a threshold.
October 31, 2025 at 5:38 AM
At the National Palace Musuem 🇹🇼. ‘Compassion and Wisdom’ - words to be remembered, every time we cross a threshold.