Social permaculture for a troubled land

February 21, 2011 Permaculture

What positive things can we take from the experience of others to improve what it is that we do in the world? That is the question that arose…

Meeting helps Leichhardt develop community garden policy

January 31, 2011 Permaculture

A hot, sultry and sticky night didn't deter 45 people coming together to help Leichhardt Council develop their policy on community gardening...

Life at Serendipity

December 2, 2010 Memoir

It’s a morning ritual. Pick up the surfboard not long after sunrise has paled the eastern sky and descend through the rainforest to the small beach below. It’s…

Home from the mountains— a stopover in Ouse

December 2, 2010 A Tasmanian journey

I remember her then. Checked wool shirt of the kind favored by bushwalkers and outdoor types. Warm wool trousers, dull khaki in colour. Petite wire framed glasses balanced…

At home with the working class – temporarily

November 3, 2010 Memoir

A story of a temporary but longer than anticipated immersion in working class culture...

Same but different

November 2, 2010 Memoir

In the bright light of an early afternoon in the summer of 1970 I stood atop that long flight of stone stairs that connects the valley of Woolloomooloo…