Slow Clothing
Pictured: City of Canada Bay Mayor Angelo Tsirekas with (back row) Five Dock residents, Dana Pekic with her children, Harlen and Havana Hunter and Allison Greenland with her children (front row) Ayla and Avery Greenland. […]
Sustainability
DISPOSABLE TRUTHS
THE ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE BEHIND MARINA DEBRIS’ TRASH-ART As Christmas approaches, it’s more important than ever to consider the quantity of waste we produce. We invest in vast amounts of food, but how much is discarded? […]
STREET COOLING
Sydney’s extreme weather forewarns of the need to cool our suburban streets Extreme weather temperatures in late October have left Sydney in anticipation of the sweltering summer to come. The day before Halloween, temperatures reached […]
The Inner West Says Stop Adani!
Inner West citizens gathered in Camperdown Rest Memorial Park, Newtown, on October 7, in protest of Adani’s proposed Carmichael mine in the north of the Galilee Basin, Queensland. The $16 billion planned coal project has […]
Dockless bike services shaking it up in Sydney
A dockless bike service has popped up overnight on Sydney’s streets. The yellow fleet belongs to Obike: a private, Singapore-based company currently active in both Melbourne and Singapore. The company follows hot on the heels […]
Creative Sustainability: The Footprints Film Festival 2017
Environmental film plays a major role in promoting sustainability in the digital age. Al Gore’s 2006 An Inconvenient Truth shocked the global community with vivid depictions of melting glaciers and rising CO2 levels across the […]
Plastic Free July
Scientists estimate that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans. This shocking figure is one of many outlined by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in a report on the new […]
Greening Sydney
Cooling our city with trees and flowers The veiled green walls of One Central Park are a stunning testament to the integration of nature with urban living. At 150 metres high, the vertical gardens, designed […]
Sustainability: Off the Grid
A Chippendale terrace shows it’s possible to be sustainable in the inner city Since 1996, Michael Mobbs’ energy and water bills have amounted to less than $300 per year. Most people pay about that much […]
Hemp as Food, Paper, and Cloth
The Environmental and Economic Potential of Hemp Hemp seeds are a complete protein and an excellent source of essential fatty acids. It is also one of the easiest vegetable oils for humans to digest. However, […]