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Daring and exploration on Tasmania’s wild rivers

I’VE JUST FINISHED reading Johnson Dean’s Shooting the Franklin — early canoeing on Tasmania’s wild rivers, and have come away

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Resilient Cities – planners post their visions

A couple weeks ago, I received a phone call from a woman in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

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Permaculture Strategy for South African villages

Bill Mollison’s Permaculture — A Designer’s Manual covers the broad sweep of the permaculture design system. So does his Introduction

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Local economics initiatives stimulated by visit of US advocate

FOR MICHAEL SHUMAN, his visit to Australia was a whirlwind of appearances and presentations that started in Brisbane, took him

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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond

I HAD A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR staying at my little shack this week, and I’ve had the good fortune to watch

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City in memory

We inhabit our own geographies... geographies formed by patterns of movement from home to work, from home to our recreational

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Small town off the highway

Wauchope, a minor country town off the highway.

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Garden education in Sydney’s sandy east

The Eastern Suburbs sandy soils are starting to sprout lettuce and leeks, cabbage and capsicum thanks to a local government

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A tale of sad liaisons on the high seas

I remember Pierre well but I’m not sure that his memory of me is as sharp. I got this impression

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An excursion into shared memory… a house, a mystery package and a……

Discussions of the past raise questions about memory... is it unique or can it be a reconstructed reality? A mystery

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