Your say: eco sins
As the Footprints Eco Festival draws near, it’s time to confess your eco sins: what’s your most unsustainable guilty pleasure? “Sitting in front of the heater and watching reality TV pretty much throughout the entire […]
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Native backyard bee keeping
Backyard bee keeping is becoming an accessible and attractive pastime for many Inner Westies. It’s an interest that has evolved with the increased awareness about a social native species known as the ‘Sugarbag’ bee, or […]
Rant: White Bay's pollution problems
When the cruise ship terminal was relocated from the tourist precinct of Darling Harbour to the high density residential area of Balmain/White Bay it brought many problems to the surrounding community. The incidence of health […]
Risky Business
The climate may or may not change. It might change tomorrow or it might change in millions of years. It might change a little or a lot. The change (if any) can be measured and […]
Leave space for species
Before this suburb was another suburb, there was a functional ecosystem inhabiting here… If we’re attentive we can still find traces of that original community sustained in the present day. When the gutters flood, the […]
Tasmanian treasures
Maria Island Walk Truth be told, I’m not much of a camping kind of guy. I like my comforts. Composting toilets, tents, mosquito nets and rocks that need to be climbed are not usually on […]
Backyard Bandits
“Come quickly!” My wife called out from our tiny front garden in Petersham. Expecting the worst I bolted down the hall. “Blue bandits! Look!” she says. But what she really meant to say was “Blue […]
Sustainability: Embrace de-gifting
The time for giving and receiving is nearly upon us. If you’re one of the many Australians who feels the urge to buy random gifts rather than arrive empty handed over the festive season, you […]
Rant: Shoot the trolleys
In a world riven with war, hunger and general strife, Sydney’s biggest problem is out of control stray shopping trolleys… We have a pretty simple problem here; shoppers are too lazy to return their trolleys […]