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 [...]

[I'm publishing this 'as is' for comments/corrections. It's a reference document in progress for how much energy/water/greenhouse gas/landfill might be saved by home food gardening. I've been regularly updating the article, the last was to include more embodied water information on 6 December 2007, and new greenhouse emission information added 11 December. -Adam]
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From the Energy Bulletin archives – some essential reading:

‘The Oil We Eat’ Following the Food Chain back to Iraq Richard Manning, Harper’s Magazine The journalist’s rule says: follow the money. This rule, however, is not really axiomatic but derivative, in that money, as even our vice president [...]

The Congress for the New Urbanism took place on Rhode Island 1-4 June 2006.
From wikipedia: 
New urbanism is an urban design movement whose popularity increased beginning in the 1980s and early 1990s.
There are some common elements of new urbanist design. New urbanist neighborhoods are walkable, and are designed to contain a diverse range of housing [...]

An August 2002 conference in Casey, Building Sustainable Communities on the Urban Fringe brought together council planners from around Victoria, particularly the outer suburbs, as well as representatives of State Government and academia.
Topics included:

Local case studies highlighting the relationship between planning, community development and wellbeing;
Examples of successful integrated planning;
Exploring strategies for achieving integrated local [...]