Tag Archive | "environment"

Talkfest indicates disconnect between community and peak environment organisations

Saturday, March 6, 2010

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March 2010's Climate Action Conference was a worthwhile event that highlighted a bridgeable disconnect between the peak environment organisations, academics and grassroots movements towards sustainability...

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Pedapods a new transport mode in Sydney city

Wednesday, December 23, 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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Depot roof becomes power station in Randwick

Friday, November 27, 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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Simple solutions encourage locals to leave their car at home

Wednesday, November 25, 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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Reserved parking aims to encourage car share, hybrids

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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Reserved parking aims to encourage car share, hybrids

When you park in Randwick, just watch out where you park...

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Council addresses filtered water waste

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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Council addresses filtered water waste

Manly Council has taken an innovative approach to addressing the carbon costs and waste creation that come with bottled, filtered water...

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Farmers of the urban footpath

Friday, October 9, 2009

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Farmers of the urban footpath

FOOD GARDENS are starting to take over footpath nature strips as people extend the idea of edible landscaping from the home garden to the street. Is it time for local government to take an advisory role?

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Composting claims the footpath in Chippendale

Friday, October 2, 2009

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Composting claims the footpath in Chippendale

There's compost bins along Myrtle Street, and they're not in people's gardens. Instead, they're on the footpath in an assessment of community composting...

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Future scenarios — both scary and hopeful

Friday, October 2, 2009

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Future scenarios — both scary and hopeful

With Future Scenarios, David Holmgren refocuses the permaculture design system on the big global issues but suggests a community-based response to addressing them...

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Less a town than a landscape

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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Less a town than a landscape

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...

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