Book Launch of Rosemary Morrow’s Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture Saturday 17 September 1pm at the Planetary Health Precinct (the old Katoomba Golf Course, Acacia St Katoomba) Bring along a picnic lunch for the Blue Mountains launch of Rosemary Morrow’s latest permaculture book and join Lis Bastian and Rowe Morrow Read more…
A YEAR IN A DAY CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT DRAWS TO A CLOSE I’d like to give a huge THANK YOU to everyone who’s participated in A Year in a Day since 1 January this year. Together, Council and Communities, in Australia AND Timor, have explored and taken actions to Read more…
WE ARE NATURE It’s been over 15 months since the fires swept through the Mountains, and life and death are juxtaposed as matter cycles endlessly. Today’s action for A Year In A Day was to commit to sharing a daily photo of this extraordinarily exquisite world we live in Read more…
REJUVENATING RUSTY TOOLS If I were an investor at the moment I think I’d invest in vinegar! We’ve gone through large bottles of it for cleaning away mould, and today I used it to tackle rust. Many of our garden tools have gone rusty in this wet season, so Read more…
FIRST OYSTER MUSHROOM HARVEST What an exciting evening! Tonight, 4 weeks and 5 days after taking the plunge and having a go at inoculating recycled paper with spawn, we harvested and ate our first crop of blue oyster mushrooms. It was hard to say goodbye to them after the sculptural Read more…
Stone Paper Recipe Book As the rain continues, the mould grows and more stories of loss in the floods surface, I’ve thought about all the memories and all the knowledge lost as books and artworks are completely destroyed by water. So, tonight, I opened the Stone Paper Sketchbook I’d Read more…
Less is more! At some point, between my childhood and now, we went from towels the size of my grandmother’s to ones the size of the towels we now have. My towel is three times the size and thickness of my grandmother’s towel. I blame the movies, and Marilyn Monroe! Read more…
Repurposing plastic with a sewing machine Tonight I decided to experiment with the sewing skills I’ve been developing over the last few weeks to see if I could repurpose plastic. I’ve had a beautiful old ceramic lamp stand without a shade that I haven’t been able to use, and Read more…
Eating Green to limit global warming The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C WORLD is a new report by the C40 Cities Climate Group, academics at Leeds University, and engineering firm Arup. It addresses the important role cities play in reducing consumption-based emissions to limit global warming. The Read more…
Trying to give back as much as I take Today I tried to visualise everything I’ve taken from this world in my lifetime. I tried to imagine how high the pile of food I’ve eaten would be; how high the pile of all the clothes I’ve owned would be; Read more…
Building strength! As more people have to struggle with the impacts of climate change and geopolitical disruption, there is much to be done as those of us who can, rise to meet the challenges of restoring planetary health. We need to be able to carry, and do, more. To Read more…