The Eastern Suburbs is gearing up for World Environment Day on 5 June 2013 by finding ways to continue to reduce our ecological footprint. Leave us a comment below if you are doing anthing to celebrate World Environment Day 2013.

This World Environment Day, join us in a ...

Join the Peace, Ecology & Justice Centre of Columbian Mission Institute and Randwick City Council in celebrating World Environment Day. Join with individuals and members of the culturally diverse Randwick community organisations to celebrate our common relationship with each other and with the Earth.

Speakers will draw on Religious ...

It was a conspiracy of the clouds... and the sun and skies to deliver a day of warm autumn weather to International Permaculture Day 2013 at Barrett House and the Randwick Sustainability Hub in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.

First Barrett House

The day started at Barrett house, Randwick ...

Like an angry rhino chasing a car load of annoying tourists, 2013 seems to be picking up its pace and accelerating, and so is the Reduce Your Footprint team. The year seems to have just started but already we've a growing list of workshops and courses for ...

Barrett House wins a Highly Commended in the Randwick Council's Urban Design Award 2013.

Here is what Brian Zulaikha, the presentation judge, had to say about the house...

Barrett House was bequeathed to council by the estate of early Twentieth Century Australian filmmaker, Walter Franklyn Barrett (1873-1964 ...

Crowds of keen and curious local composters came to celebrate and compete at 'Compost Cocktails and Canapes' on Sunday May 12 at Paddington Community Garden.

A big congrats to the category winners of our new 'East Sydney Compost Championships':

• Heavy Weight Champion: Emanuel Sorris, Randwick Community Organic Garden ...

Have you visited Barrett House and have been impressed with the sustainable retrofits, then here's your chance to vote in the Urban Design Award People's Choice category for sustainability. Voting closes on Friday 3 May 2013 in the People's Choice category.

Visit Urban Design Award ...

More loveable than a dog, less aloof than a cat and incredible useful too... they're the urban animal supreme, the productive pet, the fascinating companion... and they eat our kitchen scraps.

They're also the most numerous bird in the world and you find them both on ...

"Permaculture", said Bill Mollison on one of his early videos, " ...is about a lot more than gardening". And, if anything, that's the idea that people attending the Randwick Council sustainability team's Introduction to Permaculture two-meeting workshop went away with last month.

Workshop educators, Steve Batley (landscape ...

The report summed it up well:

• The biggest impacts that people have on the environment is through the food we eat — food choices could make a much bigger difference to household sustainability than direct water and energy use.

Our food choices account for:

• 50% of an Australian urban ...