Tag Archives: resilient cities

Meeting proposes Sustainability Hub as base for outreach program

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…

Mayor and Costa celebrate successful council courses

Mayor and Costa celebrate successful council courses

If enthusiasm to do something positive in the world is anything to go by, then the last Living Smart cohort to graduate from the ten-topic, 24-hour Saturday afternoon course marks it as a success…

Community composting – here one day, gone the next

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

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…

THE PERMACULTURE PAPERS — 1: Introductory notes

THE PERMACULTURE PAPERS — 1: Introductory notes

The Permaculture Papers — 1: An introduction… a personal history of the Permaculture design system…

Council to trial small-scale wind turbine

A Sydney council is to trial wind as local energy source…

Good topic but presentation distracting

Good topic but presentation distracting

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…