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Live local love continues

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

Live local challenge - what I learned #livelocal

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

Live local challenge day 7 #livelocal

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

Chief Economist cares about the future!

Here's Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist with Austrade (who's also known as the Airport Economist), talking about why the Future Summit was on his agenda: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b8sCHQw8Eo&w=425&h=344]

Live local challenge day 6 #livelocal

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

Live local challenge day 5 #livelocal

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

Neighbourhood vegetable garden #livelocal

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

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