NORBERT WIENER would have approved. So would have Marshall McLuhan. It was an example of how digital communications has amplified the capacity of small groups to take action and of how new communications media has changed our culture, just as McLuhan predicted it would.
Read MoreTwo declarations on the future of our food systems have been released in the past six months. This is the Declaration of the Plains To Plate food convergence that took place in Adealide, South Australia, in February 2010...
Read MoreThe days when most people had a house and garden are gone. If cities are to feed themselves, then attention will have to move towards food production on apartment common land. In Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, a small apartment block in Randwick has taken its first step towards sustainability by starting a food garden...
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AROUND A DOZEN PEOPLE are walking the long, straight footway through Hyde Park where the lines of overaching native figs form a vegetative tunnel. They enter Macquarie Street and make their way to an old sandstone building with a long verandah. Here, they are to hand over the state’s first Declaration on Food...
Read MoreMARCH DAYS ARE MILD DAYS in the sleepy northern NSW town of Lismore. And this year they were no different...
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