Manly’s beach – forever changing but always the same
In June and again in July, the Great Sea God that lives offshore of Manly beach reached out to scoop away the sand…
Archive | July, 2009
Getting in early: the 2010 permaculture calendar and diary
David Arnold and Michele Margolis have been busy preparing next year’s Permaculture Calendar and Diary for you…
Food Connect pioneer at TransitionSydney’s Cafe Conversations
TransitionSydney’s Cafe Conversations bring us innovative people in an informal setting – Robert Pekin, from Food Connect.
Rosemary’s retrofit a good home forever
Always doing something interesting and useful, Rosemary Morrow’s new booklet on retrofitting her house for energy and water efficiency, and food production, has already inspired others…
New manual for sustainable living in Sydney
TerraCircle Inc’s Australian project — a community sustainability action guide for local government…
Ideas diffusion – from innovation to adoption
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ACCORDING TO Dr Robert Gillman – a one-time astrophysicist with NASA turned community worker and, later, publisher of In Context magazine – there is a process by which new ideas move from the Read more »
Energy shortage – a non-event?
WILL PEAK OIL turn out to be a non-event after all? This is the question raised in a recent edition of the respected weekly journal, New Scientist (27 June 2009). It challenges ideas and beliefs that have become basic to new, community based organisations such as the Transition Towns movement that set up to chart Read more »
