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...Tuesday, September 22, 2009
It's not the town, its the landscape it is set in that gives the Byron region its spectacular character. This I was taught by a sea eagle and by quietness as I gazed over coast and ocean to a northern horizon bounded by mountains...
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 24, 2007
MARCH DAYS ARE MILD DAYS in the sleepy northern NSW town of Lismore. And this year they were no different...
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 24, 2007
A discussion with local fishermen hauling in their catch on a Byron Bay beach in 2006 disclosed how they might be the losers had environmentalists succeeded in having the area zoned as a marine reserve...
Continue reading...Friday, July 13, 2007
First published in 2008. IF YOU HAVE TIME TO HANG AROUND, I’ll tell you a little story about literature and coincidence. It’s not a significant story nor an exciting one, rather a recounting on one of those minor occurrences that sometimes appear in our lives. A couple months ago I accidentally embarked on a Jack Kerouac reading [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 13, 2006
The first time I saw it, the North Coast lay inspiring and revealed from my vantage point part way down a steep, winding road that took me to the coastal plain below...
Continue reading...Friday, August 27, 2004
It's magic country, those rolling hills of the Byron Bay hinterland, and dotted here an there among their folds are people who have moved from city to country in search of a new life...
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