Social entrepreneurs, small business entrepreneurs... these are ways to get things done, and even council workers can use their power to become civic entrepreneurs says Ernesto Sirolli...
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VEIL's report, Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design, is a source of ideas for planners and local government that would creatively integrate food production and distribution into our cities...
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Feel a little overwhelmed at the scale of changes we need to make to move towards sustainable cities? Choosing your circle of action might be the solution....
Read MoreThe transect is a participatory process used to collect information about an area of land as part of the design process...
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Is the mindset of permaculture practitioners the biggest barrier to the further penetration of their ideas into society?
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If enthusiasm to do something positive in the world is anything to go by, then the last Living Smart cohort to graduate from the ten-topic, 24-hour Saturday afternoon course marks it as a success...
Read MoreIn Randwick, a humble and environmentally inefficient community centre has been turned into an innovative sustainability hub—a learning and demonstration centre imagined around the sustainable use of our water, energy and food...
Read MoreHow do you combine an area of boring, low quality lawn, a gas barbecue and a few tables and bench seats and a couple council education courses into a cohesive area of public open space? The answer: create a new kind of public open space...
Read MoreBehaviour change is now the focus for sustainability educators. Understanding an individual's readiness to make changes in their lives that move them towards sustainablity thinking and behaviour makes for more effective education programs and workshops...
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The Permaculture Papers — 1: An introduction... a personal history of the Permaculture design system...
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