Permaculture - PacificEdge

Found: the book that influenced a generation

A surprise discovery in a mountain hut closes the circle of time...

New permaculture magazine publisher visits the Eastern Suburbs

…by Russ Grayson CHECKING OUT the PIG (Permaculture Interpretive Garden) and the Barrett House community sustainability hub in Randwick this week was publisher, Robyn Rosenfeldt. Robyn was shown around the sites, which are Randwick City Council initiatives, by council sustainability educator, Fiona Campbell, and by the author of this article. At the PIG she met […]

Declutter your life with Cecilia

You can think of Cecilia Macauley as a connector; she describes herself as an edge dweller. Cecilia is both of these — a connector between Japanese and Australian culture and a woman who lives on the edge where those cultures meet. Edges are important to Cecilia because she is also a practitioner of the permaculture […]

The last day — Living Smart

SATURDAYS during course time at Randwick Sustainability Hub there's buzz about the place… the buzz and movement of people doing things.

Seed saving with Jane

It was a full house as people crowded into Barrett House for Jane Mowbray's seed saving workshop...

Farewell Paolo, and thanks

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 […]

Sustainable Communities Plan for Chippendale—a submission

ON BEHALF of the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network, I prepared this submission to the City of Sydney’s public exhibition of the Sustainable Communities Plan for Chippendale prepared, by Chippendale resident, Michael Mobbs.

In sydney, a new economics recognises its existence

SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT happened on Thursday 27 September 2012. How it unfolds over the next few years will determine whether it will be a good idea stillborn or the start of an authentically new economy.

A next-to-last project: a new community garden for Woolloomooloo

It was a different process getting the Bourke Street Park Community Garden through the social design and into the design stage. When it's built it will supplement the existing community garden in Woolloomooloo to provide new opportunities in commuity-based urban agriculture and social development for local people...

Social planning comes first in community garden design

When it comes to starting a community garden, social design precedes site design, and we have developed a simple management plan process for doing this...

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