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HERE IT COMES! Another Australasian Permaculture Convergence!
It's a celebration, a learning opportunity, a party, a reflection and a reunion... the time that comes around every two years when Permaculture educators, advocates, practitioners and all of the others incloved in the Permaculture Design System come together... it's a time not to be missed...
Continue reading...Opening of Sustainability Hub: Costa to talk water
21. July 2010
You are invited to the official opening of the Randwick Community Centre Sustainability Hub… TELEVISION GARDENING PROGRAM HOST, Costa from SBS’s Costa’s Garden Odyssey, will join Randwick City Council’s Team Eco, the Mayor of Randwick and guests for the Official Opening of Randwick City Council’s Water Wise Trail and the Sustainability Makeover retrofit of energy/water systems [...]
Continue reading...Social permaculture for a troubled land
21. July 2010
What positive things can we take from the experience of others to improve what it is that we do in the world? That is the question that arose when watching a new film about the work of Rosemary Morrow in Afghanistan...
Continue reading...Council to trial small-scale wind turbine
1. June 2010
A Sydney council is to trial wind as local energy source...
Continue reading...A local currency that was
25. May 2010
Local currencies are coming back into popularity to judge by a couple issued by Transition initiatives in the UK. Australian social innovators, however, experimented with a local currency well before the British...
Continue reading...Why so little influence in social decision making?
26. April 2010
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....
Continue reading...Interregnum a chance to review and modernise permaculture education
26. April 2010
The Permaculture Institute's abandonment of its permaculture teacher registration offers an interregnum in which to review and modernise the Permaculture Design Certificate...
Continue reading...In Sydney’s east, another group graduates from sustainable living courses
14. March 2010
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...
Continue reading...The Trainer papers… 4
3. February 2010
SEGMENT 4... A response to Ted Trainer specifically addressing points he raises in criticism of the Transitions and permaculture movements...
Continue reading...The Trainer papers… 3
3. February 2010
SEGMENT 3: Ted Trainer responds to comments published by me following his critique of the Transition and permaculture movements...
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- The Trainer papers... 4
- The Trainer papers... 1
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
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- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
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- Yvonne Gluyas: Yes, it WAS 'Barricades"!!! Now I remember that so...
- alfredo zotti: Dr Bob Rich has given some valuable feedback on my...
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- Merilyn Thomas: Today I was waiting for my son to have an MRI in T...
- Jane Logan: Hi Russ I am doing an assignment for uni (I am st...
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From Plains to Plate…
You can participate in the Future of Food website
The Plains To Plate website was set up as the communications hub for the Plains To Plate Future of Food conference in Adelaide earlier this year and continues as a service linking food system aficionados around Australia.
Why not visit your food friends and join the conversation…
21. July 2010
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