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New food for hungry bushwalkers
October 2, 2017 | Russ GraysonPatagonia’ showing of Unbroken Ground and the launch of Patagonia Provisions in Australia attracted a crowd of mountain sports people, surfers and others who like the company’s clothing and equipment and how it is trying to reform its supply chains…Read More
Sydney symposium explores urban agriculture
September 21, 2017 | Russ GraysonTHE URBAN AGRICULTURE SPACE is diverse, spanning commercial farms, community gardens, food security and sovereignty organisations, academia, indigenous peoples’ organisations, permaculture educators and activists and heath institutes and interests. In 2017, they gathered at Packet City Farm for a forum on urban agriculture…Read More
Conference signals the time for a new economy movement is here
September 18, 2017 | Russ GraysonSeptember’s Building a New Economy for Australia conference in Brisbane was a convivial success that brought together people from all over the country…Read More
Edible landscaping comes to Brisbane’s Southbank
September 15, 2017 | Russ GraysonA walk along Brisbane’s Southbank reveals an edible garden…Read More
Makers and doers of the alt.food system
September 7, 2017 | Russ GraysonThe presence of Robert Pekin and Emma-Kate Rose at the 2017 Building a new Economy conference was evidence that a different model to business-as-usual works…Read More
Forum attracts an audience despite the weather
August 6, 2017 | Russ GraysonDiversity is an established principle used in permaculture design, and although the Sustainability and Social Impact Forum was not a permaculture event per se, it featured a diversity of speakers. Most interestingly, the event was the initiative of a bank…Read More
Transition Bondi hosts the new economy
August 6, 2017 | Russ GraysonLIKE A CHRYSALIS EMERGING from its cocoon, a new economics is emerging from the dysfunctional body of the old. This new, humane economics got a hearing at the Transition Bondi seminar on 15 June this year…Read More
The freedom of the hills: One fine weekend in winter, long ago
August 5, 2017 | Russ GraysonTo journey into the mountains is experience the freedom of the hills. That is so even when winter’s snow carpets the ground in its bright, glare whiteness…Read More
Social media link reveals Joe Salatin a climate change denier
July 8, 2017 | Russ GraysonA Facebook post linking to an article revealing regenerative agriculture farmer-hero, Joe Salatin, with climate change deniers has revealed profound disappointment with a man one held up as a example of doing good…Read More
Eastern suburbs garden reveals botanical surprises
May 31, 2017 | Russ GraysonWandering without purpose through a garden reveals some botanical surprises…Read More
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