The Community Game - Make It Happen
Laurence Boomert
Director: The Community Game
Laurence Boomert is an international speaker, activist and coach on community transformation, green business & the new economic foundations for a sustainable world. He is a visionary often working in pioneering areas that later become trends. After 30 years studying community solutions and innovative practice, Laurence brings The Community Game as an answer to solving how to make our communities better faster.Laurence's work to date includes:
- Co-Founding: The Community Game
- Founding NZ's First Green Business Network with 500 member companies
- Co-founding The New Economics Party
- Being a TV Presenter on Organic gardening on (Maggie's Garden Show)
- Speaking & coaching on Community solutions, resilience and revitalisation
- Numerous re-localization and community development projects.
- Sustainable Solutions consultancy, writing the 30,000 print run - Vision Hauraki Sustainable Business Programme
- Establishing the Whanganui Environment Centre (one of the largest community hubs in the country at the time 2008/9)
- Hosting the National Conference on Community Currencies 2009
- In 2011 co-founding the New Economics political party
- Being a pivotal member of the Living Economies Educational Trust
- Publishing an essay author with “How I survived the end of the world”
- Contributing author to ‘True Wealth. Money and the New Collaborative Culture’.
- Conducting a 21 state speaking tour of the USA
