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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Even though I’ve finished my Live Local 7 day challenge the amazing support from people both online and offline continues.
An example of this 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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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