Well I have been out of Australia for just over 3 weeks and unfortunately I have been sick for most of it and have as yet been unable to see much sustainability in motion. However I have been able to learn and read about lots more initiatives and caught up on some writing about a couple of sites [...]
December 28th, 2009 - 9:43 am § in Blogroll, Edible Cities
Balaangala Community Group
Balaangala Community Group is a reconciliation group that formed as a result of responding to ‘GetUp!’ (an online independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation), that was requesting people or groups to start a conversation about ‘reconciliation’. From this Balaang[...]
December 21st, 2009 - 11:39 pm § in Blogroll, Edible Cities
Northey Street City Farm
Northey Street City Farm is a three hectare permaculture city farm in my city ‘Brisbane’. NSCF was the first community garden in Brisbane and was started in 1992 by Dick Copeman and a group of his friends. The site where Northey Street City Farm is, was council land situated on En[...]
November 26th, 2009 - 3:12 pm § in Blogroll
Departure Date Looms Ever Closer.
Well the time is nigh… Departure date is looming and yet my blog is still not yet ready for launch. The reason for my absence of late is because of my final uni exam on the topic of Global and Regional Sustainability. Uni studies, wrapping up at my job in community mental health and packing [.[...]
Sustainable City 1 ~ Brisbane
As part of Brisbane to Bogota I will be reporting on several sustainable cities, so I thought I’d start with my own. Brisbane is the capital city of the state of Queensland and is located in the south east of the state. Brisbane is 30 kms from the beautiful Moreton Bay and is situated east of [..[...]
Wild Food in the City
I was wandering around Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV) this morning, which is a 16 hectare master-planned community that demonstrates best practice in sustainable, mixed-use urban development in Brisbane. While I was there I saw few dismal looking ornamental potted plants beside a street cafe and [...]
