SO WE STARTED in the usual way by getting the 20 or so packed into this small room to introduce themselves and what they hoped to get from the coming hour together. That ranged through learning more on organic and local foods, where their school could get the stuff and how they could convince staff […]
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It was a full house as people crowded into Barrett House for Jane Mowbray's seed saving workshop...
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THINK.EAT.SAVE was the name of the UNSW World Environment Day seminar that attempted to draw attention to food waste. This it achieved to some extent but having representatives of the three main political parties on the panel turned it into something of a recitation of known attitudes to climate change and the value of markets […]
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IF YOU ARE ASKED to describe Jo Baker and you say that she is tall, blonde, slim, intelligent, articulate, well dressed and very knowledgeable about Australia’s food system, you get full points. It was the latter quality that brought more then 40 people together at Transition Bondi’s weekly gathering to hear Jo talk about the […]
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This is a media release I produced for the Australian Food Sovereighty Alliance in response to the federal government’s release of their National Food Plan in May 2013… WHERE ARE FAIRNESS, HEALTH, AND SUSTAINABILITY IN CANBERRA’S NATIONAL FOOD PLAN? The Federal Government’s National Food Plan is big on promoting export markets and in offering advantage […]
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THERE ARE PEOPLE whose ideas, words and deeds come to symbolise a time. They rise above the average and take a practice in new directions. They, intentionally or not, become leaders. Now, one of those icons of an age has passed. Paolo Soleri was an architect who, led by a far reaching imagination, pioneered new […]
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HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY SHRUNK the working class (and, therefore, the membership and influence of trade unions), industrial technology and software are now shrinking the working prospects of the middle class. This is a software-driven revolution and it has been more deeply investigated in the book, Rage Against the Machine. There is little point in raging against […]
Read MoreIT WAS A BIG ANIMAL, ALRIGHT, though some distance off and, fortunately those new to the forward scouting unit thought, headed in a different direction. It was a quadruped covered in grey fur, in a mottled sort of pattern. It was not a creature new to the colony, however, and a few had encountered it […]
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The mission: Establish a food forest at the Permaculture Interpretive Garden, one of the components that make up the Randwick Sustainability Hub. The difficulty: Hard work (though maybe not all that hard) in the warm Spring sunshine. The process: Identify needs > produce a plan for the forest garden > implement the plan over time.
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What could happen if councils made the change from managerialism to platform? From doing things for people to doing things with them? It might be a move away from vending machine government...
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