Articles tagged with: sustainability
Events, Growing Food, Illawarra Businesses, Illawarra Councils, Illawarra Organisations, Permaculture »
Lots of photos from the Kiama Sustainability Expo and Kiama Community Garden Open Day, held on Sunday. There were lots of local organisations and businesses present, as well as celebrity gardener Costa from SBS. What a top day!
Growing Food, Keeping Animals, Media Coverage, Super Challenge »
I was interviewed by Gavin Webber from The Greening Of Gavin as part of a series of podcasts he’s done with sustainable bloggers from around Australia. Let me know what you think!
Weekly Roundup »
How to build an automatic chicken coop door opener, the world’s fanciest chicken coop, Kiama Community Garden’s new blog, backyard aquaponics, and Fresh the movie.
Weekly Roundup »
Items of note I read this week: mulched garden paths, sub-acre agriculture, tiny houses, a DIY first aid kit, and lots of backyard pig-raising.
Weekly Roundup »
What I’ve been reading about this week – worming pigs naturally, butchering pigs, sustainable display homes, KiamaSphere, Book Depository, modern homesteading, how to freeze eggs, and the solar nest.
Growing Food, Illawarra Organisations »
The new Green Box Regional Food Cooperative Ltd needs your help to show Matt Brown’s office that they have broad support from within the Kiama community. Please help!
Keeping Animals, Preparing Food »
New Scientist magazine has just published an article about the sustainability of kangaroo meat for human consumption. If you’re interested read it now, as I think free access to the full article is removed at some period after publication.
The article looks at issues like methane production, water use, feed conversion efficiency, orphaned joeys, humane harvesting, [...]
Events, Illawarra Councils, Illawarra Organisations, Media Coverage, Super Challenge »
I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the launch of Kiama Council’s new Kiamasphere web site on Thursday.
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll probably know that our sustainability journey really got going when my family joined the Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge. It gave us the impetus to stop [...]
Events, Illawarra Organisations »
I attended an event at the Kiama Library last night, “Sustaining The Library”, put on by the Kiama Greens.
Ten years ago, The Greens donated about $1200 worth of books and CDs about the environment and sustainability to the Kiama Library. Last night they did it again. There are some great books in the collection – [...]
Science and Technology »
I don’t normally talk much about climate change.
I don’t enjoy debating with people over whether the climate is really changing or not, or whether humans bear any responsibility for the change, or even whether the change will be a bad thing. It’s a polarising subject, and I don’t want to put people off my sustainability [...]
