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

The Catalan Integral Cooperative

IN THIS EBOOK by Sydney limits-to-growth thinker, Dr Ted Trainer, he reports on the Catalan Integral Co-operative in Spain.

” …the Catalan Integral Cooperative provides us with an inspiring demonstration of what can be done and what we need”, he … Read More

Retroburbia: some thoughts

With the release of david Holmgren’s book, Retroburbia, imminent, I sat down and thought about what we might need to recreate australia’s suburbs…Read More

Award recognises permaculture design of council community facility

A Highly Commended in the 2017 Sustainability Awards of the construction and architectural design industry was the latest in a number of awards made to the permaculture Interpretive Garden and Randwick Community Centre and regional park development in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs…Read More

Along the lane, an edible surprise

An edible surprise awaits on a walk home…Read More

Across the Fish, a journey into memory

IN SPATE late that day The Fish River At the base of the escarpment Up which we ascended through forest Dripping with moisture From recent rains. Last I came this way There was only a slippery log Upon which to … Read More