Finished at last: Randwick Sustainability Hub

INTERNATIONAL PERMACULTURE DAY 2018 was the right day for Randwick mayor, Lindsay Shurey, and ABC Gardening Australia host, Costa Georgiardis, to open the final phase of the development of Randwick Sustainability Hub.Read More

The legals: Our duty of care to visitors to permaculture sites

With visits to community gardens, farms and permaculture sites now popular events. perhaps it is time to think about our legal obligations in showing people our permacultures…Read More

Creating change: facilitating with confidence

If bad meetings are a malady, effective facilitation is the remedy. That is what this workshop with social change communications expert, Les Robinson, was about…Read More

Communicating for change: a most useful workshop

We write. We speak. We encourage. Sometimes, we cajole. But all too often nobody listens. Even when they do listen they will not act. This is disappointing and when it happens time after time it discourages us. Master Communications for Change showed us how to communicate better…Read More

CoLab survey holds a mirror to permaculture practice

What is permaculture worldwide? Who practices it? Where are they? That’s what The Next Big Step: Permaculture, practices, passions and priorities for collaborative working set out to find out…Read More

Meeting Anne

Life on the road. It’s a romantic notion. It is also reality for a growing number of people. I got an insight into it when I stopped to talk with Anne…Read More

An end to predictable trail breakfasts

At last, we have something to break the predictabiity of breakfast on the trail…Read More

Participatory event maps Sydney’s sharing economy

Mapping is how we make sense of landscapes. It is also how we make sense of those networks we cannot sea, such as Sydney’s sharing economy.

That is what March’s Map Jam did in creating The Sharing May…Read More

Good ideas flow at Sydney urban farming event

It was the conversation rather than the presentations that made the Sydney Environment Institutes Urban Farming — Feeding the Future a source of good information and ideas.Read More

By Road to Hagen

Sitting in the too-hot confines of Honiara’s airport terminal, Tony and Fiona were waiting for the flight to Australia. I was off to Port Moresby, thanks to a call from the agency’s director. There started a short microadventure that took … Read More