I will be conducting monthly workshops in collaboration with the Byron Bay-based organisation, “Will of the People” at the monthly Sunday market in Byron Bay from 12 noon to 2 pm. For market details, see: http://www.byron-bay.com/markets/ For the local weather, see: http://www.byron-bay.com/weather/index.html At the workshop each month we will work on one of the six components [...]
I held a highly successful KTS workshop in Kitsap County, Washington State on Friday 13 February 2009. Over sixty participants attended. A video has been made of the workshop. For information, please contact Rhiannon Fernandez at rfernand@co.kitsap.wa.us or + 1 360 337 7097
I delivered a public lecture on the topic of Kitchen Table Sustainability in Vancouver in February 2009. Also speaking was my Canadian co-author, Nancy Hofer. Why are community engagement processes failing to engage local people with sustainability issues? And what can we do about it? I took a hard look at current community engagement processes in Canada, Australia [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
