Tag Archive | "Sustainability"
Opening of Sustainability Hub: Costa to talk water
You are invited to the official opening of the Randwick Community Centre Sustainability Hub… TELEVISION GARDENING PROGRAM HOST, Costa from SBS’s Costa’s Garden Odyssey, will join Randwick City Council’s Team Eco, the Mayor of Randwick and guests for the Official Opening of Randwick City Council’s Water Wise Trail and the Sustainability Makeover retrofit of energy/water systems [...]
Continue reading...Council to trial small-scale wind turbine
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
A Sydney council is to trial wind as local energy source...
Continue reading...A local currency that was
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Local currencies are coming back into popularity to judge by a couple issued by Transition initiatives in the UK. Australian social innovators, however, experimented with a local currency well before the British...
Continue reading...Why so little influence in social decision making?
Monday, April 26, 2010
A drive down a windy road in Hobart raises questions about the influence of the permaculture design system and why this is not something greater....
Continue reading...Food Connect throws its growing weight behind commemoration
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Australia's Food Connect Foundation is joining La Via Campesina worldwide to commemorate the International Day of Peasant Struggle on April 17 and to show their support for small farmers the world over, Australia included...
Continue reading...Declaration on food: Sydney Food Fairness Alliance
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Two declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance's Hungry for Change Food Summit of October 2009...
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...City east becomes the epicentre for community food systems
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Like some emerging lifeform, community food systems is an idea now growing in Australia's town and cities where it holds promise of a different food future. Some have claimed the inner city/Inner West to be the epicentre of community food system evolution, but now attention turns eastward to Sydney's coastal city east region where community food systems are diversifying. But will that diversity merely fragment or will it fit all the better to the niches and crannies occupied by the region's eaters...
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...Talkfest indicates disconnect between community and peak environment organisations
Saturday, March 6, 2010
March 2010's Climate Action Conference was a worthwhile event that highlighted a bridgeable disconnect between the peak environment organisations, academics and grassroots movements towards sustainability...
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- 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…
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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