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.
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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 me from Lae, on PNG’s north coast, by road to Mt Hagen and back to […]
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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…
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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 cross And a length of fencing wire as handhold That gave a false sense of […]
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Experience the best teacher in the garden
When it comes to forest gardening, experience is the best teacher…
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New food for hungry bushwalkers
Patagonia' 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…
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Conference signals the time for a new economy movement is here
September's Building a New Economy for Australia conference in Brisbane was a convivial success that brought together people from all over the country…
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Transition Bondi hosts the new economy
LIKE 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…
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Social media link reveals Joe Salatin a climate change denier
A 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…
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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 writes. “The CIC is not a central agency running everything. It is an umbrella organisation […]
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