Frasers’ Broadway project to slow city traffic
New lanes being added and footpath narrowed for new 3,300 car park, Broadway (Apology for pedestrian giving the works the finger in the artwork.) Frasers will slow city traffic with their new project, and we’re looking at more minutes added to the journey for buses and cars going to and from the city. The 30,000 students at UTS and Sydney Institute and the 40,000 + students at Sydney uni and the thousands of citizens who walk the pavement will have their... Read More
Urban heat island data for Chippendale
Average Temperatures by Time of Day – Period of Record: April 2010 – July 2011 We’re measuring the urban heat island in two Chippendale streets, Myrtle and Buckland. In a partnership with Sydney City Council, our community and Professor Peter Newman’s Biophilic Cities project, we’re getting data of the temperature of the streets every five minutes. Every 25 minutes the data is sent to a computer in Hobart using a data system developed by HydroTasmania... Read More
More on Chippo ads
Chippo ads are go Ads that add, not subtract Clive sent me these delightful pics along with a story; here’s his note: “Dear Michael I noticed your website reference to “advertising” and thought you might appreciate this bit of art. It appeared a couple of days prior to Australia Day and speaks volumes. Oddly, I encountered a young man near this who was draped in Australian flag. He was having his photo taken by friends but no-one noticed the posters. I... Read More
A murmuration of starlings
Interested in good communication? Me, too. But who of we humans can match this: get ready for one beautiful vid: www.wired.com… Mmmmm Read More
Advertising in Chippo
Ad industry welcome in Chippo Chippo’s streets are rich with artists’ work and the better for it; walking here is a delight to the eye, mind and all the senses, tho’ challenging to some sensibilities. And this effort on a wall in Cleveland Street by the advertising industry shows it trying hard, too. Ads that work, M Read More
Green Building Council office compost onto our road gardens
Geoff, Green Building Council compost and road verge Today Geoff and I picked up three bags of compost from the Elizabeth Street offices of the Green Building Council. For info about the Council: www.gbca.org….au Two fellows, Toufik Refki and Jeff Oatman were waiting on the footpath with the compost in hessian sacks ready for loading into Geoff’s van. Loaded up, Geoff and I went straight to the area most in need, the road verge outside the units... Read More
So much fun burning oil
Went to Warrnambool, Victoria, these last three days. Warrnambool Council asked me to speak about sustainable living at their Sustainable Living Festival held on Saturday 14 January. It was a lot of fun, seeing these places and meeting so many interesting folks. Saw a great community garden at Warrnambool; info here: warrnamboolcg.wordpress.com… Friday morning I flew from Sydney to Avalon airport near Geelong, about 1 hour 20 if you don’t... Read More
Angel’s Trumpets bloom twice
Brugmansia - Angel's Trumpets flowers, Myrtle Street The trumpet-shaped Angel’s Trumpets plant in Myrtle Street, on the southern side, outside the units on the corner of City Road has bloomed for the second time this year. Beautiful, fragrant blossoms. The technical name is Brugmansia. The first lot were completely cut off by someone; another Urban Galah. Toot! M Read More
Peace Park returns to being a park
Peace Park being a park after being locked up for nine months . . . Last Friday the fencing came down, the contractors mowed the grass and we got Peace Park back. Thanks to those who returned it to us, M Read More
When is a park not a park?
Three years of fenced off park . . . Promises three years old of “Park Renewal” When is a park not a park? When it’s Peace Park, Chippendale. For over three years we’ve watched in growing wonder at the succession of failed attempts to manage the park, in particular to grow traditional grass there. The latest grass growing effort has seen the park fenced off for some nine months. If a park is not used for over half the... Read More
