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 [...]

I recently stumbled upon an excellent Sydney based site, WeedyConnection.com. It has a ‘useful weeds’ database, and a very pumping blog written in the second person about all things weedy and good. I’m an enthusiastic weed lover myself, and had a great email exchange with Nobody, the site’s keeper, and he’s published [...]

We don’t have to scratch so deeply to find concerns about economic, energy and food insecurity these days.

[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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John Anderson is the former leader of the National Party, Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Minister for Primary Industries and Energy. He’s retiring at the coming election to go back to the farm. As Deputy Prime Minister in 2004 he was one of the first significant politicians globally to acknowledge peak oil. He’s [...]