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Oct. 7, 2011
Earth Overshoot Day - 2011
Read moreIt sounds like a film title, and if it was, the voiceover would be something like this .. "Humanity has exhausted the budget of what nature can provide this year - September 27th, 2011 is Earth Overshoot Day."
New research from the Global Footprint Network, an international research organisation with ...
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June 1, 2011
Our 'Living Smarties'
Read moreIf enthusiasm is catching then all of those who arttended the first three sessions of Randwick City Council's Living Smart course are well and truly infected.
Living Smart is a five week, twenty hour course in sustainable living that is offered several times a year on Saturdays ...
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May 13, 2011
National Permaculture Day...
Read moreThey came from the local east, a few from the more distant north and a few from the City of Sydney local government area... and even a few from further west. In its first major public event, the Randwick Sustainability Education Hub attracted an estimated 200 people, over ...
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March 30, 2011
Landshare arrives in Australia
Read moreLandshare is now underway in Australia to provide a social networking service that introduces people with spare land to others wanting to grow fruit and vegetables, but with nowhere to do it.
Public concern for ‘food miles’, mounting food prices and a desire to get back to old ...
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March 8, 2011
Urban Orchard - time for our own?
Read moreSometimes, you see something that is such a good idea that you have to ask - why is there not one of these near where I live here in the Eastern suburbs?
Case in point: Urban Orchards.
Melbourne has one. Adelaide has one. Even Wollongong has a look-a-like. So ...
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Jan. 17, 2011
New Sustainability Hub
Read moreIn Randwick, a humble 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.
You know when you are approaching the Randwick Sustainability Hub - the tall wind turbine spinning in the breeze ...
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Oct. 21, 2010
Love Food Hate Waste
Read moreWho doesn’t love food? Well it appears many of us. Although we may think we love food we are actually wasting it in very large amounts. Food waste is the single largest component of the household waste bin in NSW (unless of course you’re part of ...
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Sept. 6, 2010
Permaculture Design Salon II: skilling up
Read moreIt's a real world introduction to permaculture for those participating in the design of the small garden and the tour trails at Barrett House in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.
Engaging the local permaculture group — Permaculture Sydney East — in the design process was the idea of Fiona Campbell ...
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June 25, 2010
Enough community gardens? Not quite
Read moreThere are three community gardens in the Eastern Suburbs, one in each of the council areas participating in the 3-Council Ecological Footprint Program.
Randwick Community Organic Garden is the oldest of these. It made its start back in 1994 as the result of a Permaculture Design Course run ...
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June 17, 2010
In praise of medium density
Read moreLet’s start with a note of reality: here, in the Eastern Suburbs, we live in what is potentially the most sustainable area in Sydney. Why? Because, (and let’s be kind here and include the City of Sydney area immediately east of the CBD) the city east ...
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Sustainability Street
Read moreSustainability Street puts the idea of thinking global while acting local into practice, bringing friends and neighbours together to reduce household waste, water and energy use, as well as work on local sustainability projects. Are you interested in turning your street into a Sustainability Street?
Sustainability Street: Clovelly ...
