A meeting at the Randwick Sustainability Education Hub has outlined ideas for a sustainability outreach program…

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…

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…

A drive down a windy road in Hobart raises questions about the influence of the permaculture design system and why this is not something greater….

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…

The idea of curling up in a warm, sunny corner on a cold winter’s day to bask in the screen glow of a Kindle instead of a good, paper book might sound, well… unorthodox…

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  Read more »