Marrickville Council has organised another Water Sustainability Urban Design (WSUD) tour in the local area, and we’re one of the stops. The purpose of these tours is to show local residents some of the many ways of saving water. In our case, it’s our water tank, irrigation system, and permaculture garden sufficient to meet our [...]
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Visit our house (and others) on the next Marrickville Council WSUD tour
Posted in Saving the environment, tagged irrigation, marrickville council, water, water tanks, wsud on November 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
City of Sydney’s community gardens policy
Posted in Growing our own food, Local issues, tagged community garden, council, gardens, marrickville council, policy on March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Michael Mobbs has highlighted on his blog that City of Sydney has just published a community gardens policy (PDF). This looks good, and I’d love to see something similar in place in Marrickville Council. To quote: Community gardens are unique forms of public open space which are managed by the community primarily for the production [...]
Becoming a sustainable water ambassador
Posted in Saving the environment, tagged ambassador, marrickville, marrickville council, water, water tank on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When we put in our water tank early last year, we received a rebate from Marrickville Council, which was much appreciated. This also started a dialogue with the water folks at the Council. As a result of this, I agreed to become a “Sustainable Water Ambassador”, and the details on this have just gone live. [...]
Council gives Guerilla Gardeners a green light
Posted in Guerrilla gardening, tagged community gardens, guerilla gardening, Guerrilla gardening, marrickville council on November 4, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Yarra Council in Melbourne has recently come out in support of Guerilla gardens in their municipality. This will set a precedent for other councils. Are you listening, Marrickville Council? In the meantime: As Rebecca Solnit, the inspiring San Francisco-based activist, concludes in her book Hope in the Dark: the Untold History of People Power, there [...]
Policy on planting in the nature strip
Posted in Local issues, tagged ashfield, council, lewsisham, marrickville council, nature strip on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m reliably informed that Marrickville Council doesn’t have an official policy on planting in the nature strip. In practice, they seem content to overlook any planting that does get done, presuably within sensible boundaries. I was therefore interested to discover that City of Canterbury does have a nature strip policy. What I like about this [...]
