HERE IT COMES! Another Australasian Permaculture Convergence!
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...
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16. July 2010
Farmers of the urban footpath & the need for design guidelines for street verge gardens
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
News from Plains To Plate and the foodfolk in Adelaide
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
Opening of Sustainability Hub: Costa to talk water
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
Social permaculture for a troubled land
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
Time to stop Big Coal gobbling up the Liverpool Plains foodlands
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
Two families, two lives… so similar but so different
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
A food policy for our common future
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
How to feed 3 adults for 20 dollars and help local farms
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
Council to trial small-scale wind turbine
A Sydney council is to trial wind as local energy source...
Continue reading...25. May 2010
A local currency that was
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
Great conference, good people… but this is Tasmania after all
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
Why so little influence in social decision making?
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
Interregnum a chance to review and modernise permaculture education
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
MEDIA RELEASE: New opportunity in fresh food-Food Connect comes to Randwick
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
Food Connect throws its growing weight behind commemoration
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
A new technology threatens the establishment at the same time it offers a richer reading experience
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
Declaration on food: Sydney Food Fairness Alliance
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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- The Trainer papers... 4
- The Trainer papers... 1
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Rosemary's retrofit a good home forever
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- Yvonne Gluyas: Yes, it WAS 'Barricades"!!! Now I remember that so...
- alfredo zotti: Dr Bob Rich has given some valuable feedback on my...
- alfredo zotti: I would like to add a correction here. My wife mis...
- Merilyn Thomas: Today I was waiting for my son to have an MRI in T...
- Jane Logan: Hi Russ I am doing an assignment for uni (I am st...
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From Plains to Plate…
You can participate in the Future of Food website
The Plains To Plate website was set up as the communications hub for the Plains To Plate Future of Food conference in Adelaide earlier this year and continues as a service linking food system aficionados around Australia.
Why not visit your food friends and join the conversation…
21. July 2010
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