It was a different process getting the Bourke Street Park Community Garden through the social design and into the design stage. When it's built it will supplement the existing community garden in Woolloomooloo to provide new opportunities in commuity-based urban agriculture and social development for local people...
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Walk to places you haven't been for decades and you walk into memory. This was my experience on the Lenah Valley Track high above Hobart...
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When it comes to starting a community garden, social design precedes site design, and we have developed a simple management plan process for doing this...
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Expensive, argumentative and messy it might be, if democracy is to remain a core social and political value then the expense and hassle of dealing with it is a necessary one for any society with democratic aspirations.
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A very efficient solar cooker is just one of the intermediate technologies found in Australia's longest-triunning share house...
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A chance find in New Zealand demonstrates that restoration ecology is almost as controversial there as it can be in Australia...
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WHILE I WAS AT the Randwick Community Centre the other day I took the trouble to look closely at the old photographs of the area arrayed around the walls.
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Day 2 of the rehabilitation of the Barrett House footpath garden planter in Randwick saw the creation of a new, food-producing garden...
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In a do-it-yourself approach to tactical urbanism, a Randwick team has removed a monoculture of agapanthus in preparation for a footpath garden of herbs, vegetables and fruit...
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A reflection on working in local government and on its hiring practices...
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