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 an[...]
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%[...]
