community action

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR some passion mashin' attracted around 30 people who clustered in the meeting room at the Randwick Sustainability Hub in February this year for a workshop led by veteran social change expert, Les Robinson. Les has worked in the social change area for decades, both online ...

There's a swamp within walking distance of where I live. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not.

It's an ephemeral swamp — ’wetland’ is the preferred term, I believe. It fills during rainy spells and drains through the sandy soil and into the aquifer below during ...

Spanning two weeks in January, Randwick Council's popular Coastal and Marine Adventure Program enabled participants to get to know Randwick's marine environment and the creatures that live in it. This they did underwater through snorkelling, above water on coastal walks and talks and in the water ...

CHERRIES are a treat of the seasonal kind, and as this is cherry season a couple boxes of the round red delicacies arrived with our Sydney Food Connect weekly box of organic food, most of which comes from the Sydney region — what is known as Sydney's food ...

What a way to highlight National Recycling Week—swapping instead of discarding into the waste bin.

As zero hour approached around 80 eager swappers crowded the tables laden with stuff people didn't want and with other stuff people did want. "Put everything on the table now", instructed ...