Discovering our inner ScoMo.
The other day as I watched Treasurer Morrison read out what we were doing with our almost $500 billion federal budget I thought about David Simon, writer of the television series, The Wire, who said the definition of society is what we do with the money, and it felt like we had just defined ourselves as a pretty short-sighted, […]
Gil & Mem's trail of inspiration. The sliding doors of oval autumnal fruits.
Since the 1970’s when they started an intentional community called Compost in Thornbury, Gil and Meredith Freeman have left a trail of inspiration in their wake (that’s them above). They’re this two pronged unstoppable force for good, solving problems wherever they go with the good humoured power of resilient people based projects. As teachers in the 1970’s they wanted to work outside the mainstream so they helped start the […]
Human scale in a tilt slab world. Do you want to build a scoby?
We’re in WA for the school holidays visiting family. Driving in from the airport Perth can seem all McMansion suburbs serviced by concrete tilt slab strip malls filled with brand outlets, a celebration of corporate growth culture. I didn’t expect to find much here until I was talking to my mother-in law, Jenny, about kimchi. You need to go to the kimchi shop she […]
