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? Even as we hover on the brink of a monumental ecocatastrophe, an army... 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 to me (once) that she gave up drink when she woke up one morning draped... Read More