Interviews
Reducing Food Waste With The Swag Bag
Food is one of the world’s biggest problems, when it comes to management of waste. Reducing waste in the first place is always the goal – shop to a list, store and use leftovers and try to put your food scraps into the compost or green waste bin. If you compost your food scraps, you…
Read MoreEco Friendly Natural Lime Paint with Bauwerk Colour
The world is full of beauty. The colours of our earth are inspiration for designers and artists of all kinds. Just look up at the trees as you walk past them through the bush. See the pinks and yellows, silvers and browns, as they cascade down the trunk and into the branches, where they…
Read MoreDuncan Meerding Releases New Designs at World’s Largest Decorative Light Show
Duncan Meerding, one of my favourite Australian designers, credited with the wonderful Cracked Log and Stump lights, has launched a new range of handmade, sustainable lighting, at the Euroluce decorative light trade exposition, in Milan. The new designs include a wall mounted Log Light and an 85 cm diameter Propeller Light. The new Propeller light,…
Read MoreRetro House Tour: Carolyn O’Neill, Visual Artist
Carolyn O’Neill is a visual artist, working in oil on canvas, and mixed media. Married with three sons, she began painting in 2003, after being inspired by a mural painted by some of the parents at her son’s kindergarten in Melbourne. Over time her work has developed into an abstract expressionist style and is largely…
Read MoreJunkies Magazine: Making Change in the World, One Piece of Junk at a Time
I am very excited to be announcing my partnership with Junkies magazine. I will be a regular contributer to the magazine, writing about sustainable living and homes. Junkies was started in 2012 by a small group of passionate creative women from Queensland. Current editor, Selena Buckingham, was lucky enough to become part of Junkies from…
Read MorePlanet Talks WOMADelaide 2019: All the Fishes in the Sea
Dr Jodie Rummer, one of the line-up at the fabulous Planet Talks in 2019 at WOMADelaide, is an Associate Professor at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University. She has had had six consecutive years of competitive ARC fellowships. Jodie also received the highly prestigious UNESCO –…
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