Tag Archive | "resilient cities"

Apartment lawn to food in Maroubra

Saturday, February 27, 2010

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Apartment lawn to food in Maroubra

In Maroubra, Kimberley has turned her apartment block's lawn into food...

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Dilemma: Two community food systems — which to choose?

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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Dilemma: Two community food systems — which to choose?

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?

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Why is Food Connect taking off?

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Why is Food Connect taking off?

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?

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In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons

Monday, February 22, 2010

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In Adelaide and Sydney, a tasty future beckons

Food Connect has made a start in Adelaide and Sydney...

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Organic buyers group offers a good crop

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Organic buyers group offers a good crop

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 [...]

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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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One year later… and a community garden blooms

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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One year later… and a community garden blooms

IT'S GOOD TO SEE A PROJECT you have worked on come to fruition. That was the feeling as Kogarah City Council's Mayor, General Manager and other staff and gardeners officially opened the Carrs Park Community Garden. Faith Thomas and I started work on the project a little over a year ago...

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Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament

Friday, November 20, 2009

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Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament

AROUND A DOZEN PEOPLE are walking the long, straight footway through Hyde Park where the lines of overaching native figs form a vegetative tunnel. They enter Macquarie Street and make their way to an old sandstone building with a long verandah. Here, they are to hand over the state’s first Declaration on Food...

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