Chippo Garden & Compost Workshop Wed 23 March

On Wednesday 23 March – next week – Sydney City Council will hold a workshop about composting and gardening in Chippendale. Commencing at 630 and finishing at 8 pm at the Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, the workshop will enable each participant to express their ideas and opinions and to offer criticisms and to ask questions. The information from the workshop will be... Read More

Add your ‘garage’ to the Garage Sale Trail

Hey, Chippo folk have a great opportunity to get rid of ‘stuff’. Whether or not you own a ‘garage’ you can sell or give away things you don’t want on Sunday 7 April. In an event being promoted by Sydney City Council, Waverley Council and other Councils any of us across Australia may take advantage of the promotion when lots of people will be on the... Read More

Compost Cocktails

Just when you thought your social life needed a pick-me-up along comes Waverley Council with Compost Cocktails. They sound like just the thing to spice up your life. Waverley Council are making Compost Week a big focus in May and are holding neighbourhood workshops, having a Compost Cocktail ( network social night), a cooking with leftovers workshop, compost themed movie night... Read More

Peace Park compost bins on hold

The seven compost bins in Peace Park have been sealed up as they are full and the mix of compost is causing cockroaches. We’re removing the compost and will shortly put in some boric acid to kill the cockroaches. When the cockies are gone we’ll restart the bins. In the meantime Council is organising some community compost workshops to provide education and guidance on... Read More

Workshops for Sustainable Streets & Communities Plan

Sustainable Chippo Public Meetings Info On Wednesday 16 March at 630 to 8 pm Sydney City Council will hold a public meeting to provide information and hear feedback on the Sustainable Streets and Communities Plan that’s being prepared. Information is in the flier from the Council which you may download above; it’s about 1 MB – if you’re a ChippoIte then do... Read More

32 new bike parking O rings for Chippo

New O ring, Shepherd street Sydney City Council has just installed 32 O rings for parking bicycles in Chippendale. The streets where bikes may be parked with the new O rings include: Rose St, Shepherd St, Myrtle St, Buckland St, and Beaumont St. May the bikes be with us. Thanks Council – terrific work, and much appreciated. Michael  Read More

Beaut doco on waste solutions – free screening

WASTE NOT you are invited………final pdf At 4 pm, 7 April Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP will launch the 26 minute documentary, Waste not, produced by the Total Environment Centre. The screening is free, at NSW Parliament House, Macquarie Street. The flier and form above includes this description of the doco: What keeps a 21st Century metropolis like Sydney clean and sparkling?... Read More

Architect who gave up ‘architecture’ to work with ‘garbage’

In the documentary called, Garbage Warrior, we can see the story, vision and passion of Michael Reynolds who for the last 30 years has been building houses in the US that are self sufficient for energy, water and recycling sewage.  There’s a 3 minute vid here: www.garbagewarrior.com… May the warriors be with us, Michael  Read More

Clean up Chippo this Sunday 6 March

Clean up chippendale A new local, Thais, has set up a group to clean up Chippo this Sunday 5 March  Read More

The art of being grave

Hidden sculpture walk, Rookwood A friend and artist, Ro Murray, has sent me this invitation to the opening of an art exhibition called, “Hidden”, at Rookwood, Sydney’s major cemetery. What’s interesting about it to me are the hours: from “sunrise to sunset”. Those words got me thinking. This reminds me of a friend I had (once) who mused aloud... Read More