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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 ...

Something significant happened on Thursday 27 September 2012. How it unfolds over the next few years will determine whether it will be a good idea stillborn or the start of an authentically new economy.

I'm talking about Australia's first collaborative consumption gathering that brought together, at ...

It 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 ...

Building a house offers a great opportunity to make things better than what we had experienced living in Australia over the last 15 years. After all the cold and draughty winters in shockingly insulated homes and hot and sweaty summers in badly ventilated and insulated flats and houses ...

If 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 ...

Christmas is the time of year when we busy ourselves consuming – I’m not talking about the office party but rather handing the plastic over during a mad dash to the shopping centre to get everyone a gift to open on the big day.

Stop for a moment ...

Everything old is new again in Waverley with the launch of Fixit Fest, a series of workshops and events to show you how to reuse, repair, and reinvent your old stuff and help our environment too.

Taking place in and around National Recycling Week, Fixit Fest includes four ...