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Farmers of the urban footpath – design guidelines for street verge gardens

Farmers of the urban footpath – design guidelines for street verge gardens

It’s happened suddenly — the upsurge of interest in gardening the street verge with edible plants. But before we rush out to replace our nature strip lawn with vegetables, there’s a few design considerations we would do well to take into account…

Time to stop Big Coal gobbling up the Liverpool Plains foodlands

Please help us to save the Liverpool Plains… the Liverpool Plains is an extremely important foodbowl of Australia but at the moment it is being explored for coal and coal seam gas…

Bullet-hole bunny terrine — a place in our national cuisine?

Bullet-hole bunny terrine — a place in our national cuisine?

Bullet-hole bunny terrine with figs and walnut, served with tomato relish and a nasturtium and watercress salad might not be the food future to vegetarians and animal lovers, but it might be one way of dealing with this country’s feral animal population. The idea was reported by a woman who lives on Australia’s far southern coastline where wind whips the sea into foam and the forest conceals a surprising variety of ferals…

Talkfest indicates disconnect between community and peak environment organisations

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…

Pedapods a new transport mode in Sydney city

Pedapods a new transport mode in Sydney city

Traveling through Sydney city? Then why not Pedapod it?

Depot roof becomes power station in Randwick

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…

Simple solutions encourage locals to leave their car at home

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…