…by Russ Grayson CHECKING OUT the PIG (Permaculture Interpretive Garden) and the Barrett House community sustainability hub in Randwick this week was publisher, Robyn Rosenfeldt. Robyn was shown around the sites, which are Randwick City Council initiatives, by council sustainability educator, Fiona Campbell, and by the author of this article. At the PIG she met […]
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You can think of Cecilia Macauley as a connector; she describes herself as an edge dweller. Cecilia is both of these — a connector between Japanese and Australian culture and a woman who lives on the edge where those cultures meet. Edges are important to Cecilia because she is also a practitioner of the permaculture […]
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AS it’s the first day of Spring 2013 I thought I might commemorate the passing of the cold months (which weren’t really all that cold at all) with a picture from my film photography days, a photo now some decades old that raises recollections of a memorable night in the winter mountains. For photographers who […]
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SO WE STARTED in the usual way by getting the 20 or so packed into this small room to introduce themselves and what they hoped to get from the coming hour together. That ranged through learning more on organic and local foods, where their school could get the stuff and how they could convince staff […]
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SATURDAYS during course time at Randwick Sustainability Hub there's buzz about the place… the buzz and movement of people doing things.
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It was a full house as people crowded into Barrett House for Jane Mowbray's seed saving workshop...
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THINK.EAT.SAVE was the name of the UNSW World Environment Day seminar that attempted to draw attention to food waste. This it achieved to some extent but having representatives of the three main political parties on the panel turned it into something of a recitation of known attitudes to climate change and the value of markets […]
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IF YOU ARE ASKED to describe Jo Baker and you say that she is tall, blonde, slim, intelligent, articulate, well dressed and very knowledgeable about Australia’s food system, you get full points. It was the latter quality that brought more then 40 people together at Transition Bondi’s weekly gathering to hear Jo talk about the […]
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This is a media release I produced for the Australian Food Sovereighty Alliance in response to the federal government’s release of their National Food Plan in May 2013… WHERE ARE FAIRNESS, HEALTH, AND SUSTAINABILITY IN CANBERRA’S NATIONAL FOOD PLAN? The Federal Government’s National Food Plan is big on promoting export markets and in offering advantage […]
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THERE ARE PEOPLE whose ideas, words and deeds come to symbolise a time. They rise above the average and take a practice in new directions. They, intentionally or not, become leaders. Now, one of those icons of an age has passed. Paolo Soleri was an architect who, led by a far reaching imagination, pioneered new […]
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