IT WAS LIKE TOURING AN INNER URBAN and Eastern Suburbs food trail… a tour of food initiatives starting at Waterloo and ending in the far reaches of Randwick. The tour was one of three organised as part of October 2009’s Sydney Food Fairness Alliance’s (SFFA) Food Summit, Hungry For Change. While other tours headed off  Read more »

ONE DAY IT WAS A DINGY LANE taking the curious from Broadway to Chippendale. Next day it was a food fair, offering the curious a glimpse of the emerging local food culture that is starting to bloom in Sydney. Opinion was offered that the Chippendale Food for the Future Fair — this October’s was the  Read more »

Pat Rayner reports: Slow Foods founder, Carlo Petrini’s inspiring message, at the international level, was that of Sydney Food Fairness Alliance at the metropolitan level and the Blue Mountains Sustainable Food Group, or your local permaculture group, at the community level…

Behaviour change is now the focus for sustainability educators. Understanding an individual’s readiness to make changes in their lives that move them towards sustainablity thinking and behaviour makes for more effective education programs and workshops…

Here’s a couple cars powered by different fuels…

There’s compost bins along Myrtle Street, and they’re not in people’s gardens. Instead, they’re on the footpath in an assessment of community composting…

With Future Scenarios, David Holmgren refocuses the permaculture design system on the big global issues but suggests a community-based response to addressing them…