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

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

Experience the best teacher in the garden

When it comes to forest gardening, experience is the best teacher…Read More

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…Read More

Makers and doers of the alt.food system

The 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

Diversity 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

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…Read More

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…Read More