The Transition Towns project (now Transition Initiatives) is the embodiment of community driven holistic regional planning.  A new book The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience helps community activists make it happen.

My wonderful housemate Kat moved to our new place by bicycle. Here’s a video we put together from the footage.

Last month I posted a house-wanted notice, in which the deal would be that I would help develop a permaculture oasis as my rent. I was overwhelmed with responses, over 15, most of them very tempting.

I’m putting it out there that I want to live in someone’s house for the next year and develop a demonstration permaculture garden so as to live rent free and have something to show for it. Below’s my ad as posted on permablitz.net:

Another bloody brilliant article in today’s edition of The Age newspaper by Katherine Kizilos summing up many of the arguments for urban food production, with an emphasis on water saving.

The following article appeared in today’s edition of The Age, (the day’s 5th most popular article!) outlining the argument for why there should be water restriction exemptions for home food growers in Victoria. It’s a good article, big kudos to Marika and the reporter Denise Gadd, for pointing out such absurdities as the fact […]

Back in 2004 I interviewed permaculture co-originator David Holmgren about a whole manner of things relating to peak oil and permaculture. This was before the release of the breakthrough peak oil documentary The End of Suburbia: Oil […]

The Transition Towns concept is one of the world’s most important movements — systemic, broad reaching relocalisation schemes which seek to address both peak oil and climate change whilst creating lively and livable towns and suburbs. Community activists in the Sunshine Coast led by permaculturists Sonya Wallace and Janet Millington have been working towards […]

Over at The Age newspaper, feature writer Katherine Kizilos has been writing an excellent series of articles relating to urban food production, with many friends of Eat the Suburbs featured — even myself today, in an article about urban weed foraging. This is a compilation of some of Katherine’s recent great efforts.

Michael Pollan reminds us that, “The inspiration for organic was to find a way to feed ourselves more in keeping with the logic of nature, to build a food system that looked more like an ecosystem that would draw its fertility and energy from the sun. To feed ourselves otherwise was “unsustainable,” a word […]