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New at http://pacific-edge.info - Particatory planning the theme of local group meeting/One year later… and a community garden blooms/Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament/
Saturdays at Salamanca/Local a selling point at Evandale
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IN SYDNEY'S EASTERN SUBURBS, where plans are underway to develop a sustainability education hub at a community centre, a local permaculture group joined in a participatory process to develop ideas for a permaculture interpretive garden...
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NOW...
you can get fresh, good food as a weekly box of mainly organic produce
from your Food Connect City Cousin in Sydney. Food Connect is Sydney's
new community supported agriculture initiative. Find more at: http://sydney.foodconnect.com.au/ ...be inspired... look > think
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Connecting farmers with city folk
PacificEdge Been to offical opening of Carrs Park Community Garden and strawbale outdoor classroom with Kogarah City Council crew this morning. This was the project Faith Thomas and I were consulatants on, with policy development, community consultation & participatory design for a year ago. Good to see it as a reality.
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I'm leading a Conversation With Authors at Randwick Ecoliving Fair, Sept 27 (http://randwick.livelocal.org.au/ecolivi
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With more than 50 exhibitors, a creative corner, kid's space, workshops and the Conversations Cafe, our journey to sustainability is going to be an interesting one! And it's free! Sunday 27 September, 10.30am to 3.30pm at the Randwick Community Centre, 27 Munda Street Randwick.
SATURDAY was an uncharacteristically mild winter's day in Sydney as we turned into the carpark of the Carrs Park Community Centre, once a bowling club...
PacificEdge Images of construction of the strawbale outdoor classroom at Carrs Park Community Garden.
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PacificEdge Reading Jeff Gomez's 'Print Is Dead' (he's senior director, online sales & marketing for Penguin Group USA) in which he says that the reading experience in moving online and that, soon, publishers of paper-based text will find... that digital media will do to publishing what iTunes and the iPod did to the music industr...y. Non-linear digital books offer to do far more than can linear paper text.
THIS IS A PAPER I wrote that was distributed to accompany my presentation as keynote speaker at the Parliament of World Religions conference at Old Government House, Parramatta, in August 2009. ......................................... A brief insight into global food trends.....
PacificEdge Spend the daylight hours re-doing my old website using a custom Wordpress theme. Not much there yet. Editing out much of the old content. Takes time, but Wordpress is easier than Dreamweaver. It's here: www.pacific-edge.info
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The City of Sydney's community garden tours are helping participants who want to start their own community gardens. The City supports more than 13 community gardens in which citizens are returning food production to the city.
See photos of the Chester Hill Community Garden gathering: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PacificEdge/46128279174#/album.php?aid=124442&id=46128279174 ................................................
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Community food growing is part of the urban food systems and community resiliency agenda pursued by myself and colleagues.
Every quarter, the Sydney Community Gardens Network meets to share information, ideas and food. June 2009's gathering took place under grey skies, however this did nothing to dampen the convivialit...y.
Community food growing enacts the idea of CREATE > SHARE > COLLABORATE.
See photos of Michael Shuman' Sydney events: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PacificEdge/46128279174#/album.php?aid=124407&id=46128279174 ............................
