ten more conversations for you at farmers markets than supermarkets
This is a useful study for its research on, among other things, urban farming; here are some snippets – enjoy: “Farming the Cities An estimated 800 million people are involved in urban farming worldwide. (p. 50) Consumers in urban areas pay up to 30 percent more for food than people in rural areas. In some cases, poor urbanites spend 60–80 percent of their income on food. (pp. 51–52) Studies show that people at farmers’ markets have as many as 10 times more... Read More
Cool streets to cool cities on ABC TV 730 WA
On Friday 20 on ABC TV 730WA Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettit, Michael Mobbs and Shani of Hulbert St – where I stayed in The Painted Fish – show how cool streets cool cities: www.abc.net… Citizens; let’s cool our cities by 1 degree by 2020 and take power stations off line; we can do this. M Read More
Making units green
Article about making units green, positives, negatives, red tape, solutions and barriers to change: www.thefifthestate.com… and here: theplan.sustainablehouse.com… Read More
Bees and food security
If you’re interested in bees and food security check this out: www.thefifthestate.com… Solutions are here: theplan.sustainablehouse.com… Read More
Genghis Khan in Sydney
Up early this cool Autumn morning. Showered in water hot from yesterday’s sun, savoured the simple animal pleasure of the steam of it on the windows. Walked about 40 minutes to the centre of the city. Along the edge of Darling Harbour, beside the water all lovely, asparkle, ashowing off in the clear, gods-given sunny, cloudless day. Then finally to the top floor of the new renovation of the Museum of Modern Art at Circular Quay, functions only. Isolated from... Read More
Great new vid about how to make Chippo Plan real for us all
Mikey Leung tells stories on video. He’s just made a beaut vid about our plan to make Chippo sustainable and the people who love it so much they’ve spent hours and hours putting it on a new web page for anyone to use to make the place where they live and work sustainable, too: youtu.be/SHkMh8wwlXY… Thank you, Mikey – you’re terrific and so’s your vid. Join with us to make the Plan happen and watch the vid and go to the link there .... Read More
Third Chinese delegation visit to discuss sustainable house and Chippo Plan
#gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } A delegate buys a signed copy of Sustainable House The delegation leader hands me a lovely medallion in thanks Bing the interpreter... Read More
