Interviewed by Serena Renner To preview our next Film & Feast on 15 March – when we’ll be screening the inspiring film Tomorrow (Demain) in partnership with SydneyLETS – Transition Bondi caught up with our guest speaker Annette Loudon to get a primer on local and shared economies and why we should all give the…
By Kit Shepherd “To go fast, go alone. To go far, go together” I love this saying, not only for its linguistic symmetry and catchy rhythm, but because it pulls us up short with a hard-hitting message! In this age of speed, efficiency and technological accuracy, we are certainly encouraged to go fast. And at…
By Jacob Freeman The east coast bunya-bunya pine originated from the Bunya Mountains in Queensland. The tree was of immense cultural significance to the life and food security of the Aboriginal people of Australia, who traded the seeds along the Great Dividing Range. Bunya trees were marked with the totems of families that planted and passed them down through the generations. The…
Interview by Serena Renner In the lead-up to our next Film & Feast on 15 February 2018 – themed around the true cost of fashion – we caught up with our guest speaker Gordon Renouf, co-founder of the ethical shopping app Good On You, to learn how we can all be more conscious consumers. What…
By Stefania Bonatti It is once again that time of the year – the 26th of January – marked by various events around the country, some solemn, others celebratory. But why the contrast and controversy? There seems to be much confusion surrounding the 26th of January, so we thought we’d offer some needed context. In…
Words by Daniel Parsa I started volunteering for Transition Bondi by joining its kitchen team back in 2011. That was the time when the group met every Wednesday in the Chapel By the Sea, Bondi. I lived locally and considered the weekly Film & Feast environment very educational. There was also a good emphasis about how…
Since its founding in 1955, the Underwater Research Group (URG) dive club of New South Wales has been at the forefront of scuba diving technology as well as underwater research and photography. Over the years, the club has done everything from fish identification surveys and shipwreck investigations to prospecting for gold and fixing the transmitter…
By Kit It occurred to me in a yoga class that just as the main focus is not each pose but rather the transition from one pose to the next — the joining aspects — so might be the case with individuals in a community. We exist in the world as separate and individual entities,…
By Gloria Chung Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to travel around Europe visiting different Eco Villages and to participate in the GEN (Global Eco-Village Network) conference in Sweden. This led to a visit of Eco District Augustenborg, an urban renewal program in Malmo, Sweden, funded by the EU and the local government, which…
Photo by Salem Lassoued Before summer heats the house and you no longer want to fire up the oven, bake a batch of these moist banana walnut muffins, made with almond meal, gluten-free flour, desiccated coconut and a hint of nutmeg (adapted from the Passion Organic Vegan Recipes to Live For cookbook by Anthea Amore). They…
