Funny thing, politics
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Solar powered light for my tent
Monique and her solar powered light and phone charger Today Monique Alfris, an Australian engineer working in India and Asia, gave me a solar powered light for my tent. Monique has set up a business and a program in India with her business partner, Kat and Jamie in India and Emma and Ben in Australia, to sell the lights to people who live in tents, shacks and are very poor. Since 2011 Monique has trialled various lights and ways to sell them... Read More
Talking to Phillip Adams this Thursday about Sustainable Food
Phillip Adams and I’ll discuss my new book, Sustainable Food, this Thursday on ABC Radio National, Late Night Live - www.abc.net… That night I’ll be talking to Patrice Newell in the Muswellbrook library – do join us if you’re nearby. Next day, Friday, I’ll be at the ABC Bookshop in Bathurst where local food and knowledge will be shared, then that night I’ll be Gleebooks in Blackheath talking... Read More
Looking for a vacant lot for my city tent
Please let me know if you see a vacant lot in the area from Sydney’s eastern beaches out to Marrickville, Newtown or so. The lot can be soil and grass or concrete, residential or factory. I want to put a tent on it to stay in temporarily. More on the design, food, water and living plans later. I can’t offer prizes or inducements for this information but would love to see you sitting on a pallet bench on the lot... Read More
Bankstown Council wins unlimited places at book launch
As it puts the boot in to chooks Bankstown Council wins unlimited places at the launch of my new book. Recently a friend wanted to put some chooks in his backyard out Bankstown way, in outer Sydney, NSW. He called the Council to get some advice which was you can’t do this you can’t do that and amounted to a small telephone eruption of telephone red tape. About 20 minutes after he put the phone down two Bankstown Council ordinance officers pulled... Read More
