Like some emerging lifeform, community food systems is an idea now growing in Australia’s town and cities where it holds promise of a different food future.

Some have claimed the inner city/Inner West to be the epicentre of community food system evolution, but now attention turns eastward to Sydney’s coastal city east region where community food systems are diversifying. But will that diversity merely fragment or will it fit all the better to the niches and crannies occupied by the region’s eaters…

I led a session on the global challenges that we face at the Living Smart course in Randwick and found participants receptive and interested. The course is now in its pilot phase and provides, uniquely among local government in Sydney, a comprehensive and integrated approach to living sustainably…

March 2010′s Climate Action Conference was a worthwhile event that highlighted a bridgeable disconnect between the peak environment organisations, academics and grassroots movements towards sustainability…

Supermarkets may offer the chance to interact with a machine rather than with a human…