Environmental Gateway is the ‘home site’ of the environmental gateway family of related sites (Transdisciplinary Gateway, Water Gateway, Enviroblog and Transforum). Environmental Gateway is a news and analysis facility, a repository of papers, reports and related environmental policy and management materials, the home base for Enviroblog and related interactive facilities through which to underpin ongoing open-community engagement around the themes of environmental sustainability and resilience. The site was conceived, designed and is administered by Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill. Website Link

Transforum was developed as the ‘interactive seminar room’ of Transdisciplinary Gateway. Transforum is a forum facility for any and all who which to engage around the various themes that are central (or even peripheral) to the integrative Transdisciplinary Gateway learning site. This forum was developed by and is administered by Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill. Website Link

Transdisciplinary Gateway is a pioneering attempt to build a ‘virtual university’ facility for integrative environmental education and research. The site includes an open forum, a large library of research reports and related resources (including much of most recent work of the one-time Centre for Ecological Economics and Water Policy Research), a weblog (blog) facility and RSS syndicated news. The site was conceived, designed and is administered by Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill. Website link

The Waterfall Way community ecotourism initiative was a $0.5million social enterprise project involving the collaboration of the New England Ecotourism Society, the Centre for Ecological Economics and Water Policy Research, five regional local government organisations, a number of key state government agencies, as well as thousands of regional community members. The foundation of the project was to facilitate a tourism-based regional development enterprise that was fundamentally grass-roots up. A key component of the work was an interactive web site that would connect business, community, government and visitors/nature based tourists together around the various environmental assets of the high country region of northern New South Wales, Australia. The website was developed by a team of designers and web IT professionals under the overall direction of Lifecycling Design founder, Roderic Gill. Website link.

One of our first ‘community development interactive web sites’. Launched in 1995, Gwydir Online was an early attempt at internet-based community engagement for collaborative community development planning. Launched well before the current craze for ‘Web 2.0’ interactivity, Gwydir Online involved various facilities through which community members could explore planning opportunities, access planning related information, and otherwise have a direct say in the unfolding of regional development. Associated with a large grant project, this web site has catalysed a continuing process of engagement that persists to date. The design called for simplicity and the facilitation of easy community access, even for those unused to the internet and the interactive possibilities on offer. The site was developed under the direction and design leadership of Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill.

Ecotourism Research is a pioneering Web 2.0 tuned attempt to engage the international ecotourism community of operators, tourists, tourism researchers and tourism policy people in an ongoing conversation around ‘environmentally sustainable’ tourism activity. The web site was developed by Lifecycling Design on behalf of the Centre for Ecological Economics and Water Policy Research at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. The site incorporated forums, a blog, a resources exchange facility and various plans for collaborative research endeavour. However, the host Centre was closed via a restructuring process before full implementation could be realised. The concept remains, however, an initiative with which Lifecycling Design was proud to have been associated.

Tags: ecotourism research, interactive research

Watergateway was developed to be an open-access repository of water related reports and resources for water policy professionals and researchers. The site included an innovative virtual publishing enterprise (‘virtual books’) where major publications would be posted for community feedback and subsequent revision by authors. This live publishing endeavour is akin to a wiki facility (indeed, it worked through the wiki implementation, PM Wiki) though with more editorial control vested with primary authors than is the case with completely open-access wiki ‘works’. Watergateway was conceived, designed and administered by Lifecycling Designs founder, Roderic Gill. The site is currently ‘on hold’ until suitable host resources can be found to underpin its full implementation. Website Link.