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It’s all about… Changeology

IT WAS LATE SUMMER when thirty or so people gathered at the Randwick Community Centre for day one of the two day Changeology course with veteran social change educator, Les Robinson. Les is a tall, fit-looking man of middle age with an authoritative but casual and relaxed way about him. I first heard of Les […]

Award recognises permaculture design of council community facility

A Highly Commended in the 2017 Sustainability Awards of the construction and architectural design industry was the latest in a number of awards made to the permaculture Interpretive Garden and Randwick Community Centre and regional park development in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs…

A distant voice calls from permaculture’s dawn time

SOMETIMES, the best discoveries are made by accident. I was rummaging through the library of an international development organisation I was working for at the time — that time being the latter half of the 1990s — when I discovered them, a couple journals published by what must have been one of the very first […]

Day 1: A ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden

In a do-it-yourself approach to tactical urbanism, a Randwick team has removed a monoculture of agapanthus in preparation for a footpath garden of herbs, vegetables and fruit...

Green Square Growers get going at The Tote

A band of urban food adventurers has started turning Victoria Park edible with their first wicking garden bed. Working with the local community worker, my role was to ensure that the project made its way through council's approval convolutions. Now, what's new for Green Square Growers?

To the summit, one last time

It was a grand weekend adventure to climb Mt Anne but, unknown to the climbers, it was to be their last as a group of friends...

Food for thought in Sydney — two days with David Holmgren

The winds of late October failed to blow away those attending a series of events with permaculture co-originator, David Holmgren. David left people with food for thought about our future and how we, as communities, might respond to challenging global trends...

A short and incomplete history of permaculture

An article on permaculture's history - from 1972 onwards - supplied to the New Internationalist magazine by Steve Payne and Russ Grayson, 2007...

On Kerouac, Hemingway and a literary friend

First published in 2008. IF YOU HAVE TIME TO HANG AROUND, I’ll tell you a little story about literature and coincidence. It’s not a significant story nor an exciting one, rather a recounting on one of those minor occurrences that sometimes appear in our lives.

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