Wendy extols the virtues of a composting toilet after four years living in the bush without one. She discovers that the model approved by her local council was designed in Berkeley by the highly influential but no longer operating Farallones Institute in 1976.
Jarlanbah Eco-village, Nimbin, NSW
The Introduction to Kitchen Table Sustainability starts the book off on a bucolic, if pessimistic, note. Three of the authors are sitting around the tables on the porch of our shed here in Nimbin and speculating about the future and the future of all generations – of all beings.
So far, so good.
All [...]
December 8, 2008 – 9:56 am
Successful book launch at Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, 3 December 2008
I love the new building of the Mirvac School of Sustainable Development at Bond University. It reminds me of the concept of “eco-revelatory design” made popular by a great new book by Randy Hester, Design for Ecological Democracy (2006). All of the building’s many [...]
December 6, 2008 – 10:06 am
Rapturous reception at Avid Reader book launch in Brisbane, 5 December 2008
After years of drought, Brisbane was treated to a sparkling evening shower on Friday night, December 5th and a rapturous reception for Kitchen Table Sustainability. Four of our book’s five authors were present at the book launch at popular West End bookstore, Avid Reader. Cathy Wilkinson flew [...]
November 22, 2008 – 12:05 pm
Reflections on the Adelaide book-signing event, November 2008
When I emigrated to Australia in 1968, the second person I met was Hugh Stretton, now widely regarded as one of Australia’s foremost urbanists. In his kitchen at 61 Tynte Street, North Adelaide, actually at his kitchen table, Hugh was putting the finishing touches to what was [...]
