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Walk to Work Day Friday October 2

posted by Kate Bedwell on September 25, 2009, in postcode 2308

I'm going to walk to work on Friday October 2, 2009. Who will join me? Perhaps we can walk together part of the way!

My aim is to keep fit by walking, meet some neighbours or fellow Sydney city-dwellers, and reduce my reliance on the bus system. Plus, I love walking!

http://www.walk.com.au/

Walk To Work on Friday October 2, 2009

Living local, two hours a week

posted by Kate Bedwell on August 12, 2009, in postcode 2038

This week, I'm going to spend two hours living local. I'll do two things that will improve the environment and my community.

What will you do with your two live local hours a week?  Make sure you come back and edit your experiment once you've started! The invitation is open...

native Australian seedling

Photo by mikemacadaan on Flickr

How I'll spend my two live local hours

  1. I will attend the Live Futures 2020 Festival on August 15 (this Saturday!) to check out Natalie's InsideOut seedling experiment and take home a plant to nurture and blog about.
    Click here     for more information on Live Futures 2020 Festival.
  2. I'm going to join a local community group to start chatting to people who live in my area.

How I Actually Spent my Two Hours

I met my neighbour, Tim! He moved in month ago with his wife, and the impetus for actually meeting after all this time was a delivery he was expecting that ended up at my house. We had a long friendly chat and I found out what he does, where he was from, how he liked living in my suburb and we shared our thoughts. It was such a nice (and normal) experience and I'd love to chat again.

Didn't quite make it to the LiveFutures 2020 day, but Natalie has saved me a seedling which I'm excited about planting soon.

On the upside, my new flatmate moved in over the weekend and brough with him a compost bin for the backyard and grand plans to turn our scraggly, weedy garden into a veggie patch!! A pretty successful week on the live local front.

Help with wild food foraging

posted by Kate Bedwell on July 21, 2009, in postcode 2011

I've identified some rosemary in Hyde Park. Walking back to the office from lunch, I spied a woman picking a small sprig of rosemary from the garden.

City Herbs

plastic bag free for a week

posted by Kate Bedwell on July 15, 2009, in postcode 2038

UPDATE 23.07.09

cardboard fruit & veggie box

Thanks to Ebony from Hello Sandwich for this picture that reminded me it's high time I sorted myself out with a weekly fruit and veg organic box from my local co-op. I admit that plastic is clearly visible in this picture but you can imagine plastic's omission from the general scene!

Urban Jogging

posted by Kate Bedwell on January 28, 2009

I wanted to go for a lunchtime jog and found a really nice route that takes you from busy Elizabeth St all the way through Hyde Park, to the Archibald Fountain (catch some spray blowing off the water feature!) and to the green Domain.

 

 

Urban Jogging

If you have a Google account you can access the "My Maps" feature which lets you easily draw and save (and share!) your own jogging/walking/cycling route by positioning the start and end points!

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