Meeting proposes Sustainability Hub as base for outreach program
A meeting at the Randwick Sustainability Education Hub has outlined ideas for a sustainability outreach program…
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Urban heat island devices installed
TWO URBAN HEAT ISLAND monitoring devices have been installed in the Myrtle Street precinct in Chippendale…
Locals take paint to boring community compost bins
COMPOST BIN too dull? Unexciting? Uninviting to fill with food and garden waste? Brighten them with a little imagination and paint….
Mayor and Costa celebrate successful council courses
If enthusiasm to do something positive in the world is anything to go by, then the last Living Smart cohort to graduate from the ten-topic, 24-hour Saturday afternoon course marks it as a success…
From energy glutton to energy efficiency… a new centre for learning in Randwick
In Randwick, a humble and environmentally inefficient community centre has been turned into an innovative sustainability hub—a learning and demonstration centre imagined around the sustainable use of our water, energy and food…
Town Hall to go vegetable green
How do you make a small food garden on the terrace outside the meeting room at Town Hall House? You get an enthusiastic team, an experienced trainer and then you get things started…
Community composting – here one day, gone the next
A little systems thinking can never be too much. For the increasing number of local governments and communities contemplating or trying community composting, the Chippendale experience points to the need to take a systems thinking approach that fully considers the type, quantity and quality of inputs into the composting process, the processes of management and maintenance and the qualtity and quantity of outputs…
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