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...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...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...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...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...28. August 2009
The use of the ORID method of structured conversation by sustainability educators is limited only by imagination...
Continue reading...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...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...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...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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21. July 2010
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