A New Song For Xcessmas (or XSmas ) 

On the first day of Christmas,

my planet said to me,
a cloth bag is so waste free!

On the second day of Christmas,

my planet said to me,
buy green power,
and a cloth bag is so waste free!

On ...

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 ...

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 ...

They 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 ...

A new home about to be built at 3 Dolphin Street Randwick is leading the way in the sustainability stakes by going well beyond current regulation. The existing home was built in the 1930s and the owners Dorothee and Wolfgang decided to knock the home down and build ...

In 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 ...

It'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 ...

Let’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 ...

So, just where do we find the hub of Sydney's sustainability movement? It's not over on the northside, not in the Inner West nor down in the distant southern suburbs — it's here in the city's Eastern Suburbs where the Pacific's swells wash onto ...

If you wander along Frenchmans road looking for Barrett House, keep your eyes open. It's tucked away on a corner opposite a small park and is an easy place to miss. For members of Permaculture Sydney East attending a design salon there in May, though, Barrett House ...