Words by Kit. Photography by Christian Seidenberg and Aisha Phillips. There’s a famous Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa set several hundred years ago called Rashomon, which portrays an incident involving a woman on a journey through a forest. The story is told four times, from the differing perspectives of the four characters in the film. I have…
Words and photography by Serena Renner Mark Boyle, the Irishman formerly known as ‘The Moneyless Man,’ has been challenging Western notions of capitalism and consumerism for nearly a decade. For more than three years, he lived in an off-grid caravan, grew his own food, and walked or cycled to get around, reconnecting with the land and…
Words by Kit Sock knitting, restringing a wooden xylophone, strengthening loose buttons on a cardigan, gluing scuffed soles onto shoes. These were just some of the projects that people brought to our neighbourly gathering called Fix & Mend. Over a potluck dinner, we also shared life histories on the topics of low consumption, repairs and…
words by Kit Think Eat Save!! Three one-syllable words carried the day at a humming event with OzHarvest, in Martin Place on a Monday 25th July. This was done in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme. Crowds converged at lunchtime on the various stalls set up there: some offering less-than-perfect apples, pears, mandarins and…
This soup is perfect for windy, wintry days. During our Film & Feast in June, we screened the documentary A New Economy and heard from a panel that included Robert Rosen and Michael Zagoridis, speaking about community energy and urban agriculture respectively. Our kitchen volunteers prepared a 3-course vegan feast to feed the 60-odd attendees….
Words by Kit Plastic Free July was launched with a bang, at Bondi Pavilion on the first Sunday in July. Around 150 people came, including a good two handfuls of very young people, who set the tone of the festive atmosphere. The film “Clean Bin Project” carried us lightly through a range of issues around…
On 4 July 2017, members of the Bondi community, young and old alike, took spade in hand to build a sandcastle wall along the beach. The sand wall would at least temporarily help keep out the seemingly endless waves of plastic pollution on our beaches. Sunday’s event was intriguing and creative. What a good idea, to…
Words by Kit QUINCE! Just saying the name of this ‘rare’ fruit gets the mouth salivating 🙂 Recently we received a huge one in our OOOOBY box – about the size of a rock melon – and were then prompted to experiment with it. Without the childhood memories of my mother baking quince overnight in…
Words by Kit The main feature of our veggie garden in Boonara Ave is an olive tree. We’ve been gently encouraging the tree to bear fruit….and it has come to pass that we got a neat little harvest at the April Dig Day, on the Sunday before Easter. Small green olives, Bondi olives! This marked…
Words by Stef To many of us living in Sydney, the hot days we had earlier this year might seem a distant memory. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some sunny warm days now? Some of us, instead, are still remembering those brave worms in our pot plants which perished in the heat on our…
