Tweet Each year, instead of making new year resolutions, I pick a theme for the year. That way when I get sidetracked (as often happens) I can simply return to the theme. Also with a theme there are often many different things I can do to support it. For 2009 my theme was simplicity and [...]
Entries Tagged as '#livelocal'
Theme for 2010: reinvention and reinvigoration
January 1st, 2010 · 6 Comments · ideas
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2009 a personal year in review
December 28th, 2009 · 9 Comments · ideas
Tweet This year has been one of great personal challenges for me and my family. To have made it to the end of the year with all of us still on deck is a good feeling. 2009 brought home to me how truly important continued good health is, and how lucky we are in Australia [...]
Tags: #cupcakecampsydney·#livelocal·collaboration·community·people·social networking
Is social computing just increasing our anxiety?
June 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · ideas, social computing
Tweet Since the early days of the internet revolution and web 2.0 I’ve been watching & participating in various ways. And over the past few years I’ve seen its powerful properties of network amplification working in practice. My friend and colleague Mark Pesce has recently discussed these properties in his Big Ideas talk. But with [...]
Tags: #livelocal·#TOTO·activism·collaboration·future·social computing·sustainability
More tasty #livelocal fun
June 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet It has been a few weeks since we did the Live Local Challenge and Rebecca and I decided to catch up for breakfast. We decided that our reunion had to incorporate local and sustainable foods. Luckily the night before I’d stayed in Camperdown after Stilgherrian’s Project TOTO farewell gathering, so the Danks Street Depot [...]
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Live local love continues
May 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · ideas
Tweet Even though I’ve finished my Live Local 7 day challenge the amazing support from people both online and offline continues. Pictured on the right is the very kind @jrobens who dropped off a new plant for my garden at lunch yesterday. Now I’ve got a curry plant to add to my burgeoning garden, and below is a picture [...]
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Live local challenge – what I learned #livelocal
May 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · future, ideas
Tweet Approach My approach was that of an ordinary outer suburban Sydney dweller. I wanted to see how easy it would be to live locally using the local shopping sources – malls, supermarkets, farmer’s markets – without travelling long distances to specialist sources. I also broadened my thinking to include other things I consume, such [...]
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Live local challenge day 7 #livelocal
May 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet Had long distances to travel today – starting with a meeting with some of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) folks at the Garvan Institute in Darlinghurst. We were discussing Smart Technology for Healthy Longevity. It was nice to catch up with Craig Mudge & Gordon Bell there too. But it’s [...]
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Live local challenge day 6 #livelocal
May 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · ideas
Tweet One of the many things that this challenge has taught me is what season it is now. Up until this time I had never really bothered with little details like that because it did not matter to me. There was no reason to pay attention, apart from the obvious weather extremes of mid-summer or [...]
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Live local challenge day 5 #livelocal
May 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · ideas
Tweet The rain finally stopped today and everyone in town took the opportunity to get out and about. Parents had clearly sent their children out to run off some energy and it was nice to watch a couple of boys throw their boomerangs in the park. The dogs finally got a chance to have a [...]
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Neighbourhood vegetable garden #livelocal
May 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · ideas
Tweet Finally braved the rain yesterday afternoon to visit a neighbour – who’s got a nice vegetable garden instead of lawn in her front yard (that’s a picture of it on the right). She’s been away and it was our first chance to catch up in ages. We chatted about the Live Local challenge and [...]
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