Adelaide’s Open State festival brought together ideas and innovation across our city. As part of the festival, an evening exploring Adelaide’s liveability combined sustainability and art.
The event asked Adelaide is one of the world’s…
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Adelaide City Repair Cafe – Volunteer with Us
We’re delighted to have received funding from Fund My Neighbourhood to run a bimonthly repair cafe, starting April 2018. Thank you to all who voted for our project!
The Adelaide City Repair Cafe will share…
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Adelaide Green Cities
Guest Blog by Allys Todd, Greening Australia
Urban green spaces have many proven benefits for people’s physical and psychological health, and are highly beneficial for the development of our children. Adelaide is fortunate to have…
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A more diverse and wild world
By Dinali Devasagayam
“Not caring about the biodiversity is like not caring that you are sawing off the branch of the tree you are standing on” – Paul Ehrlich
Biological diversity – or biodiversity –…
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Biomimicry: designing according to nature’s principles
By Dinali Devasagayam
Biomimicry is the field of design that is informed and inspired by the innovative and elegantly simple ways in which life functions. Velcro, for instance, is based on the hooks and loops…
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Plastic Free July: reducing our plastic waste
By Dinali Devasagayam
It is hard to imagine a life without plastics. They are ubiquitous in every aspect of our modern life and are also now littered throughout the planet. Even in the…
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The good life
By Dinali Devasagayam
Live simply so that others may simply live – Ghandi
The prevailing paradigm in society seems to still be that the best way to be happy and have a successful life or at…
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Zero Waste Living
by Dinali Devasagayam
An important part of living more lightly on this earth is to reduce the use of resources and the amount of items going to landfill.
Nothing in the natural world…
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Food: the stuff of life and one of its greatest pleasures
By Dinali Devasagayam
Food… so much can be said about food: the stuff of life and one of its great pleasures.
The foods we eat say a lot about a culture. These days Westerners are quite…
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