Three huts on a trail
Walk to places you haven't been for decades and you walk into memory. This was my experience on the Lenah
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Social planning comes first in community garden design
When it comes to starting a community garden, social design precedes site design, and we have developed a simple management
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Democracy: making it real
Expensive, argumentative and messy it might be, if democracy is to remain a core social and political value then the
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Sun the energy source for evening meals at Selli-Hoo
A very efficient solar cooker is just one of the intermediate technologies found in Australia's longest-triunning share house...
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Ecological restoration: A familiar argument from across the Tasman
A chance find in New Zealand demonstrates that restoration ecology is almost as controversial there as it can be in
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Shacks—part of our culture, old and new
WHILE I WAS AT the Randwick Community Centre the other day I took the trouble to look closely at the
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Day 2: Ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden
Day 2 of the rehabilitation of the Barrett House footpath garden planter in Randwick saw the creation of a new,
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Day 1: A ripping time as gardeners create edible footpath garden
In a do-it-yourself approach to tactical urbanism, a Randwick team has removed a monoculture of agapanthus in preparation for a
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A good experience that could be made better
A reflection on working in local government and on its hiring practices...
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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
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