Permaculture—time to scale up?
Is the mindset of permaculture practitioners the biggest barrier to the further penetration of their ideas into society?
Tag Archives: sydney
Urban heat island devices installed
TWO URBAN HEAT ISLAND monitoring devices have been installed in the Myrtle Street precinct in Chippendale…
Locals take paint to boring community compost bins
COMPOST BIN too dull? Unexciting? Uninviting to fill with food and garden waste? Brighten them with a little imagination and paint….
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…
Town Hall to go vegetable green
How do you make a small food garden on the terrace outside the meeting room at Town Hall House? You get an enthusiastic team, an experienced trainer and then you get things started…
A new kind of public park
How do you combine an area of boring, low quality lawn, a gas barbecue and a few tables and bench seats and a couple council education courses into a cohesive area of public open space? The answer: create a new kind of public open space…
Meeting helps Leichhardt develop community garden policy
A hot, sultry and sticky night didn’t deter 45 people coming together to help Leichhardt Council develop their policy on community gardening…
