I knew it was coming, but that didn’t change the fact that I wasn’t really ready for it. It all seemed so innocent when the kids brought home chicks from the kindergarten. We played with them for a little while but have some friends who lost some chickens to foxes so made the offer to…
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Perspective Shifting
I’m pretty keen on staying abreast of news but I’ve got to admit that I am stopping in order to maintain my owns sanity. It seems every time I read something I find myself learning more about our government’s seeming ideological quest to rip, chop, mine, sell and basically just dismantle every environmentally positive action…
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I recently attended a session about intentional transport where the presenter introduced this idea of a 7km city. I think my mum raised a similar concept that the Melbourne City Council is trying to embark on called a 20minute city. The idea is the same, that you have a natural barrier to how far you…
Read MoreWhat shopping centres should be!
A strange realisation hit just recently. It’s November! Yes I know it’s not that great a realisation! In fact as realisations go it’s pretty bloody ordinary since November happens in a fairly predictable manner every year. What is a special though is that in October 2012 we started doing what we called “a year of…
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We recently posted that we have gone solar. I do like the fact that we don’t give any money to the power companies but I do think that there’s no way that solar is going to solve all our energy problems, it’s simply not as dense as the thousands of years of stored solar energy…
Read MoreTreading Solar
We’ve been resisting going solar for a while. It’s not that we don’t support the concept. It’s just that we’ve been to too many houses where solar panels are just an excuse to continue over-using energy. We figured first we needed to decrease our usage and then we would consider getting panels in. Well we’ve…
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I recently went to a talk at the Melbourne University festival for Ideas. This was a fantastic event that brought together a whole heap of experts from a wide range of fields to provide brief insights into their thinking on specific topics. It was all free and open to anybody who was interested, heavily supported…
Read MoreClosing the Circle
One of the things that has been a real challenge is dairy and I’m sorry to say that we still haven’t worked it out. In my increasing role with Transition Darebin one of the things that I plan on doing is thinking about how we can engage with the local business community. In my mind…
Read MoreTransition 2.0
I seem to start a lot of these posts off with the words ‘it’s been a busy’. I’m not sure whether that’s because I’m linguistically limited or whether it just seems that there’s always something going on. Don’t get me wrong though, to be occupied and challenged in doing something that you love is a…
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How do you engage with your street community? It’s a question that’s pretty central if streets and communities are to become the functional group in a re-localised society, but it’s remarkably difficult. One of the things that I think is part of the trick is to ensure that there is a variety of opportunities for…
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A Life of Treading Lightly 