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Council to trial small-scale wind turbine

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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

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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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Serendipitous encounters on a drizzly summer morning

Monday, January 4, 2010

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Serendipitous encounters on a drizzly summer morning

It's sort of strange how a relaxing walk in the morning drizzle can lead to encounters of the vergetative kind...

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An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers

Sunday, December 27, 2009

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An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers

The days when most people had a house and garden are gone. If cities are to feed themselves, then attention will have to move towards food production on apartment common land. In Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, a small apartment block in Randwick has taken its first step towards sustainability by starting a food garden...

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Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden

CHRISTMAS TIME is celebration time at Randwick Organic Community Garden. Thanks to the efforts of the Arts in the Gardens team’s Mary O’Connell, this year’s celebrations featured Ecopella, an accapella group that took the audience through songs amusing, political and frivolous. The performance was followed by celebratory food that the gardeners had made themselves, fruit juices or [...]

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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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