Story & photos: Russ Grayson IT’S PERVERSE, REALLY. To walk  these mountains you start by descending rather than climbing. The reason is that the Blue Mountains do not rise from a plain to culminate in high ridges and peaks. They are a plateau formed when the earth here uplifted millions of years ago. The Blue  Read more »

It’s not the town, its the landscape it is set in that gives the Byron region its spectacular character. This I was taught by a sea eagle and by quietness as I gazed over coast and ocean to a northern horizon bounded by mountains…

We may be at opposite ends of the Pacific but, just as it’s the same ocean that laps Hawaii’s North Shore as washes the sands of Coogee, so too do we share some of the same food issues…

Not all that far from the sprawling city on the plain, the Blue Mountains is a world apart. It is also a world in which people have a sense of community, and Lawson folk are about to demonstrate that with a new community garden…

His history in setting up Northey Street City Farm with a group of enthusiasts, and the introduction of accredited permaculture training to Sydney were the focus of September 2009′s TransitionSydney Cafe Conversation with Dick Copeman…

This article by Robert Rosen, written about 20 years ago, describes early initiatives in the ethical investment industry…

Written over 15 years ago, Robert Rosen’s story demonstrates that it is easily forgotten that the permaculture design system, in its early years, was in part responsible for the establishment of the social or ethical investment industry in Australia…