It's a celebration, a learning opportunity, a party, a reflection and a reunion... the time that comes around every two years when Permaculture educators, advocates, practitioners and all of the others incloved in the Permaculture Design System come together... it's a time not to be missed...
Continue reading...16. July 2010
It's happened suddenly — the upsurge of interest in gardening the street verge with edible plants. But before we rush out to replace nature strip lawn with vegetables, there's a few design considerations we would do well to take into account...
Continue reading...2. August 2010
The recent months have continued to see growing interest in the necessity of building a just and sustainable food system... read more news from South Australia...
Continue reading...21. July 2010
You are invited to the official opening of the Randwick Community Centre Sustainability Hub… TELEVISION GARDENING PROGRAM HOST, Costa from SBS’s Costa’s Garden Odyssey, will join Randwick City Council’s Team Eco, the Mayor of Randwick and guests for the Official Opening of Randwick City Council’s Water Wise Trail and the Sustainability Makeover retrofit of energy/water systems [...]
Continue reading...21. July 2010
What positive things can we take from the experience of others to improve what it is that we do in the world? That is the question that arose when watching a new film about the work of Rosemary Morrow in Afghanistan...
Continue reading...20. July 2010
Please help us to save the Liverpool Plains... the Liverpool Plains is an extremely important foodbowl of Australia but at the moment it is being explored for coal and coal seam gas...
Continue reading...18. July 2010
HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT for the different way that life turns out for people, even when they share much in common?
Continue reading...15. July 2010
Growcom wants one. So does the Public Health Association of Australia and sustainable agriculture expert at the University of Sydney, Bill Billotti. A national food policy, it seems, is something of a catchy idea. But what kind of policy are we talking about?
Continue reading...5. July 2010
REBECCA MORGAN is the “hands and heart” behind Courmand du Morgan, a company that prepares gourmet locally-sourced meals and delivers them to your door step...
Continue reading...1. June 2010
A Sydney council is to trial wind as local energy source...
Continue reading...25. May 2010
Local currencies are coming back into popularity to judge by a couple issued by Transition initiatives in the UK. Australian social innovators, however, experimented with a local currency well before the British...
Continue reading...19. May 2010
A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern Ocean...
Continue reading...26. April 2010
A drive down a windy road in Hobart raises questions about the influence of the permaculture design system and why this is not something greater....
Continue reading...26. April 2010
The Permaculture Institute's abandonment of its permaculture teacher registration offers an interregnum in which to review and modernise the Permaculture Design Certificate...
Continue reading...15. April 2010
Food Connect Sydney's City Cousin in the Eastern Suburbs has received support from Randwick Council. Here is a media release I edited and distributed to Eastern Suburbs media on behalf of Food Connect Sydney...
Continue reading...15. April 2010
Australia's Food Connect Foundation is joining La Via Campesina worldwide to commemorate the International Day of Peasant Struggle on April 17 and to show their support for small farmers the world over, Australia included...
Continue reading...14. April 2010
Creative destruction is the process of destroying something that exists in order to create a new version of it or the create something completely new. It's a process that's been going on for some time now, and it's about to hit the newspaper industry...
Continue reading...14. April 2010
Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance's Hungry for Change Food Summit of October 2009...
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21. July 2010
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