Guerrilla composters and fruity gardens… a walk along Redfern’s back lanes
A walk through Redfern’s narrow back streets and lanes reveals a wealth of fruit and the presence of guerrilla composters…
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Drawing lessons from National Tree Day
National Tree Day shows what is needed to attract continues public participation in events…
Rain gardens filter stormwater before it enters natural systems
Rain gardens… a technology to filter pollution from rainwater…
Celebration recognises Sydney Food Connect’s first year
Amid an over-abundance of food, conviviality and good ideas, Sydney Food Connect has celebrated its birthday. Sydney Food Connect is a social enterprise—a business that has social goals—and that gives it a value that run-of-the-mill food businesses don’t have. Obtaining your food through Food Connect is a substantially more rewarding experience than tramping back and forth along the long aisles of the supermarket…
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
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
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…
