I was recently involved in consultation 
about planning for a new suburban development. We were responding to a proposal from a developer.
Most of us involved do not have any problem with development per se, especially increasing density in existing urban areas. That’s because it can be an exciting step forward in Continue reading
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‘High gas prices threaten thousands of jobs, billions of dollars: industry.’
That was the headline for an ABC story on 21 July 2014 about a report by Deloitte Access Economics. Fairfax media ran a similar story with the headline ‘Thousands of jobs at risk due to surging gas price, new research warns’.
But is it the full story? Continue reading
Buy local.
That’s the third challenge for my carbon fast.
But what exactly does ‘buy local’ mean?
Does it mean that I only buy from businesses Continue reading
Do you sometimes get so stuck in a rut
that you lose sight of where you’re going?
Sometimes, we can get so fixated on trying to deal with an issue that’s stressing us out – or coping with day-to-day life – that we cannot see that maybe we are trying to solve the wrong problem. Continue reading
I was enjoying out walking my dog this morning,
relishing the cool change that was blowing through and our record-smashing heat wave to an end.
With the breeze came an unmistakeable scent : bushfires.
Anyone who lived through the 2003 Canberra bushfires tends to have the same reaction : all our
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