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Participatory event maps Sydney’s sharing economy

Mapping is how we make sense of landscapes. It is also how we make sense of those networks we cannot sea, such as Sydney's sharing economy. That is what March's Map Jam did in creating The Sharing May…

Footpath planter gardens turn dull Waterloo space into colourful and productive place

Led by ABC Gardening Australia host, Costa Georgiadis, it was a participatory event to install the footpath planter garden at the Waterloo Neighbourhood Centre...

Something new and edible is coming to Woolloomooloo

Working with a mixed demographic, council and social agencies has been a rewarding experience that could see something new created in Woolloomooloo...

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?

Entrepreneurship the means to get good things done, says Ernesto Sirolli

Social entrepreneurs, small business entrepreneurs... these are ways to get things done, and even council workers can use their power to become civic entrepreneurs says Ernesto Sirolli...

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...

Drawing lessons from National Tree Day

National Tree Day shows what is needed to attract continues public participation in events...

What became of Bill?

It's strange how the mention of a name can suddenly take you back to something in your past. So it was that an online conversation on the Lost Sydney Facebook took me back to the Sydney of the late 1960s

Permaculture—time to scale up?

Is the mindset of permaculture practitioners the biggest barrier to the further penetration of their ideas into society?

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...

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