Tag Archive | "resilient cities"
Council to trial small-scale wind turbine
A Sydney council is to trial wind as local energy source...
Continue reading...Good topic but presentation distracting
Sunday, April 11, 2010
It was a seminar on the security and sustainability of Sydney's food supply, but bad Powerpoints and lacklustre presentation failed to engage an informed audience and distracted some of those there...
Continue reading...In Sydney’s east, another group graduates from sustainable living courses
Sunday, March 14, 2010
I led a session on the global challenges that we face at the Living Smart course in Randwick and found participants receptive and interested. The course is now in its pilot phase and provides, uniquely among local government in Sydney, a comprehensive and integrated approach to living sustainably...
Continue reading...Apartment lawn to food in Maroubra
Saturday, February 27, 2010
In Maroubra, Kimberley has turned her apartment block's lawn into food...
Continue reading...Dilemma: Two community food systems — which to choose?
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Here's the dilemma for Sydney City East good food eaters: which food system do you choose? Organic Buyers Group Randwick of Food Connect Sydney?
Continue reading...Why is Food Connect taking off?
Monday, February 22, 2010
What is it that lies behind the rapid replication of Food Connect? Is it just good food, shorter links between farmer and eater... or is it something a little bit stickier?
Continue reading...In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons
Monday, February 22, 2010
Food Connect has made a start in Adelaide and Sydney...
Continue reading...Organic buyers group offers a good crop
Thursday, December 24, 2009
IT’S MONDAY EVENING and we’re at a School in Randwick to collect our first box of vegetables from Sydney Organic Buyers Group, Randwick. We walk into a busy scene. People are taking fruit and vegetables from boxes and counting them into large shopping baskets arrayed across the floor. These contain the foods that make up the [...]
Continue reading...Pedapods a new transport mode in Sydney city
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Traveling through Sydney city? Then why not Pedapod it?
Continue reading...Depot roof becomes power station in Randwick
Friday, November 27, 2009
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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- The Trainer papers... 4
- The Trainer papers... 1
- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Rosemary's retrofit a good home forever
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- Yvonne Gluyas: Yes, it WAS 'Barricades"!!! Now I remember that so...
- alfredo zotti: Dr Bob Rich has given some valuable feedback on my...
- alfredo zotti: I would like to add a correction here. My wife mis...
- Merilyn Thomas: Today I was waiting for my son to have an MRI in T...
- Jane Logan: Hi Russ I am doing an assignment for uni (I am st...
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From Plains to Plate…
You can participate in the Future of Food website
The Plains To Plate website was set up as the communications hub for the Plains To Plate Future of Food conference in Adelaide earlier this year and continues as a service linking food system aficionados around Australia.
Why not visit your food friends and join the conversation…
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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