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An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers

27. December 2009

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An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers

The days when most people had a house and garden are gone. If cities are to feed themselves, then attention will have to move towards food production on apartment common land. In Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, a small apartment block in Randwick has taken its first step towards sustainability by starting a food garden...

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Organic buyers group offers a good crop

24. December 2009

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Organic buyers group offers a good crop

IT’S MONDAY EVENING and we’re at a School in Randwick to collect our first box of vegetables from Sydney Organic Buyers Group, Randwick. We walk into a busy scene. People are taking fruit and vegetables from boxes and counting them into large shopping baskets arrayed across the floor. These contain the foods that make up the [...]

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Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden

23. December 2009

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Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden

CHRISTMAS TIME is celebration time at Randwick Organic Community Garden. Thanks to the efforts of the Arts in the Gardens team’s Mary O’Connell, this year’s celebrations featured Ecopella, an accapella group that took the audience through songs amusing, political and frivolous. The performance was followed by celebratory food that the gardeners had made themselves, fruit juices or [...]

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Pedapods a new transport mode in Sydney city

23. December 2009

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Pedapods a new transport mode in Sydney city

Traveling through Sydney city? Then why not Pedapod it?

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Your coffee, sir… in a conventional or a bioplastic cup?

15. December 2009

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Your coffee, sir… in a conventional or a bioplastic cup?

Bioplastics appear to be a solution to some of our waste challenges, but do they offer new challenges in their place?...

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Depot roof becomes power station in Randwick

27. November 2009

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Depot roof becomes power station in Randwick

The new photovoltaic array on the roof of Randwick City Council's depot is just one of Council's sustainability initiatives...

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Participatory planning the theme of local group meeting

25. November 2009

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Participatory planning the theme of local group meeting

IN SYDNEY'S EASTERN SUBURBS, where plans are underway to develop a sustainability education hub at a community centre, a local permaculture group joined in a participatory process to develop ideas for a permaculture interpretive garden...

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Simple solutions encourage locals to leave their car at home

25. November 2009

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Simple solutions encourage locals to leave their car at home

Simple solutions are often all that is needed to encourage people to leave the car in the garage...

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One year later… and a community garden blooms

24. November 2009

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One year later… and a community garden blooms

IT'S GOOD TO SEE A PROJECT you have worked on come to fruition. That was the feeling as Kogarah City Council's Mayor, General Manager and other staff and gardeners officially opened the Carrs Park Community Garden. Faith Thomas and I started work on the project a little over a year ago...

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Water harvesting – an idea catching on

15. November 2009

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Water harvesting – an idea catching on

Take a walk to Manly Art Gallery, then take a walk to some of Bunnings hardware stores. Now, ask yourself — what did you see that is the same?...

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