The first of the design salons with Randwick City Council’s sustainability education team engaged with Permaculture Sydney East to redesign the small garden at the home of pioneering Australian silent filmmaker, cameraman and director, Walter Franklyn Barrett…

NORBERT WIENER would have approved. So would have Marshall McLuhan. It was an example of how digital communications has amplified the capacity of small groups to take action and of how new communications media has changed our culture, just as McLuhan predicted it would. The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliances‘ (AFSA) letter to politicians, delivered just  Read more »

IT’S BEEN MENTIONED to me that the organic food industry offers little by way of alternative to the mainstream food industry that supplies our supermarkets when it comes to product packaging. When in organic food stores I’ve made my own informal survey of the packaging and found that the two food systems — organic and  Read more »

IT’S A REAL-WORLD INTRODUCTION to permaculture for those participating in the design of the small garden and the tour trails at Barrett House in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs…