New catering business part of food revolution
A new Sydney catering business, Conscious Catering, is part of the new food revolution. The founder, Bronwyn Coleman, places her business in the centre of this revolution when she says on her website: “Conscious catering is a boutique catering company, grown from the intention to do what we can to support sustainability and harmlessness.” To get a sense of what’s happening with food in our culture I’ve been looking at the... Read More
Cool our cities by cooling our streets with ecoPOPs
ecoPOPS outside Council’s Information Centre, King George Square Today we put up two ecoPOPS in the streets in the centre of Fremantle. What is an ecoPOP? An ecoPOP is a small free-standing and self-sustained green oasis that catches and stores its own water from rainfall, powers itself with the energy of the sun, generates its own nutrients, grows your own food, recycles materials, refreshes and cools cities, improves the air quality, and builds... Read More
What’s a good sewage system?
A beaut question lobbed into my inbox this week and here it is: ‘Hi Michael, First up let me tell you how much I have enjoyed your book. It is a permanent coffee table fixture in our home at present as we are planning a new house and endeavouring to implement many of the same principles you have adopted. Infact it has been so popular on the coffee table that three guests have asked to borrow it and all now have their own copies. We are... Read More
Sustainable house using bamboo in Bali
Here’s some good news about a sustainable house in Bali that’s used bamboo in several ways. Here’s how I heard about it from the owner, Michael Huffman: Hello Michael I met you while hiking in the Blue Mountains in 1991 or 1992. I read Sustainable House and was hooked on building something some day based on your principles. I eventually decided to build in Bali because of fewer zoning requirements and cheaper labor than where i... Read More
Bee killer pesticides banned in Europe
Some good news for bee lovers: bee killing pesticides have been banned today across European Countries for the next two years; read it here: pesticide banned. . . . . go the bees ….. bzzzzzzz Michael Read More
