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A remarkable book and a remarkable person

Meetings with remarkable people and with remarkable books can leave an influence long after they have gone from your life.

The white aircraft

The meaning of a large white aircraft remembered from childhood becomes clear decades later...

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

From energy glutton to energy efficiency… a new centre for learning in Randwick

In Randwick, a humble and environmentally inefficient community centre has been turned into an innovative sustainability hub—a learning and demonstration

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

A celebration of growing and sharing food in Adelaide

So what is an Urban Orchard? It’s a food swap. You grow too many lemons, so why not swap them

Social permaculture for a troubled land

What positive things can we take from the experience of others to improve what it is that we do in

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

Life at Serendipity

It’s a morning ritual. Pick up the surfboard not long after sunrise has paled the eastern sky and descend through

Home from the mountains— a stopover in Ouse

I remember her then. Checked wool shirt of the kind favored by bushwalkers and outdoor types. Warm wool trousers, dull

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