I recently visited the market village of Axminster on the South West English coast, where the River Cottage Canteen is situated. River Cottage Canteen is the British celebrity chef Hugh Fearnly Wittingstall’s (HFW) cafe and local store. Why am I writing about a celebrity chef? Well HFW is a c[...]
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February 17th, 2010 - 2:19 pm § in Blogroll, Sustainable Action
Hugh’s Edible Britain – Landshare and Guerrilla Gardening in Britain
The honest city – Bangkok Car Free Day
I recently reported that I was in Thailand for a couple for weeks a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed a sign for Bangkok (BKK) car free day, however the rest of the text was in Thai so I was unable to ascertain when it was. This sign intrigued me because BKK is one [...][...]
Guerrilla Gardening
I mentioned Guerrilla Gardening in the PARKing post and it occurred to me that some of you may not have heard of this global phenomenon, so I thought I’d write a blog about one of my favourite forms of peaceful dissent. Guerrilla Gardening is a type of direct action where individuals or ‘[...]
October 17th, 2009 - 1:46 pm § in Blogroll, Sustainable Action
Blog Action Day ~ October 15 2009
Thank you to everyone who has been visiting my site lately and I apologise for not having more posts up for you to read, Brisbane to Bogota is my first real attempt at blogging and I’ve been doing my best to understand the computer technobabble associated with designing and establishing a bl[...]
PARK(ing) Day 2009
On September 19th it was PARK(ing) Day 2009, an initiative that originally began in 2005 by Rebar an art and design collective in San Francisco. In 2005 Rebar initially converted a single metered parking space into a temporary park, to reclaim the streets and create public space in a city with 70%[...]
