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Opening of Sustainability Hub: Costa to talk water
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...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...Understanding readiness for change
19. October 2009
Behaviour change is now the focus for sustainability educators. Understanding an individual's readiness to make changes in their lives that move them towards sustainablity thinking and behaviour makes for more effective education programs and workshops...
Continue reading...Food for thought in Sydney — two days with David Holmgren
2. October 2009
The winds of late October failed to blow away those attending a series of events with permaculture co-originator, David Holmgren. David left people with food for thought about our future and how we, as communities, might respond to challenging global trends...
Continue reading...City farm, training focus of Cafe Conversation
4. September 2009
His history in setting up Northey Street City Farm with a group of enthusiasts, and the introduction of accredited permaculture training to Sydney were the focus of September 2009's TransitionSydney Cafe Conversation with Dick Copeman...
Continue reading...ORID – strategic questioning that gets you to a decision
28. August 2009
The use of the ORID method of structured conversation by sustainability educators is limited only by imagination...
Continue reading...Ideas diffusion – from innovation to adoption
20. July 2009
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ACCORDING TO Dr Robert Gillman – a one-time astrophysicist with NASA turned community worker and, later, publisher of In Context magazine – there is a process by which new ideas move from the creative [...]
Continue reading...Garden education in Sydney’s sandy east
14. September 2008
The Eastern Suburbs sandy soils are starting to sprout lettuce and leeks, cabbage and capsicum thanks to a local government course in sustainable gardening...
Continue reading...Walking the transect
1. September 2004
The transect is a participatory process used to collect information about an area of land as part of the design process...
Continue reading...Participatory Learning and Action — and how to use it
1. September 2004
Participatory Learning and Action makes use of diagrams such as matices, tables, maps and models to build participation into project implementation...
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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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