Archive | 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….

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…

MEDIA RELEASE: New opportunity in fresh food-Food Connect comes to Randwick

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…

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…

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…

Declaration on food: Sydney Food Fairness Alliance

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…

Declaration on Food: Plains To Plate

Declaration on Food: Plains To Plate

Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months.

This is the Declaration of the Plains To Plate food convergence that took place in Adealide, South Australia, in February 2010…