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This week we put Steve Batley landscape architect, Permaculture designer and educator under the sustainability spotlight and ask him about his experiences, his chooks and his Top 5 garden tips for winter..

When did you first think .. I have to get into landscape design?

After I left school ...

AT THE Permaculture Interpretive Garden—the PIG—we’re progressively establishing a forest garden that will eventually yield fruits, nuts, selected vegetables and herbs. It’s a long term project but we’ve made a good start.

It will be the outcome of a process that started with ...

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 ...

For participants, the third day of Spring 2011 was an auspicious start to the season of growth and abundance as they stepped forward to receive their certificates for completing the latest Living Smart course and the first of a new course in sustainability leadership. Awarding the certificates were ...

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 ...

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 ...