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Celebrating Chippendale’s local food culture

ONE DAY IT WAS A DINGY LANE taking the curious from Broadway to Chippendale. Next day it was a food

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Future scenarios — both scary and hopeful

With Future Scenarios, David Holmgren refocuses the permaculture design system on the big global issues but suggests a community-based response

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Food for thought in Sydney — two days with David Holmgren

The winds of late October failed to blow away those attending a series of events with permaculture co-originator, David Holmgren.

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Solitary, long ago

Story & photos: Russ Grayson IT’S PERVERSE, REALLY. To walk  these mountains you start by descending rather than climbing.

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Less a town than a landscape

It's not the town, its the landscape it is set in that gives the Byron region its spectacular character. This

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City farm, training focus of Cafe Conversation

His history in setting up Northey Street City Farm with a group of enthusiasts, and the introduction of accredited permaculture

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Ethical Investment Comes of Age ….finally

This article by Robert Rosen, written about 20 years ago, describes early initiatives in the ethical investment industry...

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Earthbank and permaculture – a productive nexus

Written over 15 years ago, Robert Rosen's story demonstrates that it is easily forgotten that the permaculture design system, in

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Planning and good design feed an urban family

In this 1999 article, Fiona Campbell describes the process of designing, constructing and planting her home garden not far from

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Something new, something edible this way comes

As a pumpkin drops a seed that springs to life when the time is right, or perhaps in the manner

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