Rain gardens filter stormwater before it enters natural systems
Rain gardens… a technology to filter pollution from rainwater…
Tag Archives: environment
Sun shines on National permaculture Day 2011 at Hub
The sun shone from a blue sky onto visitors at National Permaculture Day 2011 at Randwick Sustainability Education Hub…
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…
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…
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…
Community composting – think before acting
In an inner Sydney residential enclave, a trial of community composting by local people and assisted by the City of Sydney is producing some valuable lessons…
A new kind of public park
How do you combine an area of boring, low quality lawn, a gas barbecue and a few tables and bench seats and a couple council education courses into a cohesive area of public open space? The answer: create a new kind of public open space…
