“I am writing to you from Minneapolis, in America. A year ago, I expect most Australians would have never recognized the name. Since May, however, my city has garnered international attention, even infamy . . . “
We love gardening. We both have gardens in our backyards. It is such a great way to reconnect with nature, in particular the soil. We garden with our children. Far from green thumbs, our success rates are about 50/50,
Two interns working with Sustainable House, Ailis O’Sullivan and Brianne Kendall, join me as we tell our three Plastic Free July stories. I found their stories and the similar and different policies, practices and mores fascinating – thank you, Ailis and Brianne.
A US intern working from her home in the US counts why, how and what can be done in the little Sydney suburb of Chippendale to end food waste - thank you, Ailis O’Sullivan from West Massachusetts
Simon Molesworth, lawyer, farmer, radio journalist - and lifelong ‘doer’ for Earth and her environment - describes how he built a ‘garden in the window’.
How Paul Coleman - Earthwalker who walked from Canada to Brazil for a UN climate conference - designed and built his home in Patagonia, to be cool in summer and warm in winter using . . . the earth on his small farm.
If we let our dish water into the drain we’re killing fish. Our kitchen sinks are connected to rivers and the ocean. Rivers and the ocean are for fish, not for our dish water.