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sustainability
A Hole in our knowledge
After Transpacific garbage trucks were grounded last week, and Ashfield was grounded in rubbish, we started wondering where our waste actually goes once it’s been swiped from our sight. With only three to six years […]
Footprints ecofestival
Now in its fourth year, the much loved Footprints Eco Festival returns for 2014 at Whites Creek Valley Park, Annandale, from 10am to 3pm on August 24th. This year’s festival is choc-a-bloc with feel good […]
Rant: Sustainability struggles
Leichhardt Council’s annual Footprints EcoFestival is just around the corner and that means plenty of hippies, hipsters and yippies giving talks, showcasing demonstrations and running workshops on everything from DIY furniture mending to how to […]
Buzzing for honey
Bee keeping seems to be trending in the Inner West, as people unite to save these industrious creatures from increasing world temperatures, droughts, pesticides and floods that are threatening their numbers worldwide. In homage to […]
How green are you?
When it comes to living an environmentally friendly life, there seems to be three categories of people in the Inner West: the environmental extremists, the extremely careless carbon-munching consumerist and those who fall somewhere in […]
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 […]
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 […]
Benvenuto a Ferragosto!
Canada Bay’s Italian Festival – Sunday 17th August In celebration of all things Italian and to mark the middle of the famous European summer, every August Five Dock comes alive at Ferragosto… There is so […]
Going freegan
There’s an underground movement emerging in Sydney that is taking place in the most unlikely of places: supermarket car parks, factory back doors and the kitchens of ordinary people. ‘Freeganism’ is the latest buzzword in […]