Coco is living and studying in Sydney, Australia, a long way from her home in Tokyo, Japan. Here is Coco’s story comparing life here and there.
I found my green thumb
Ashley Qui’s story: What do you do when you have a little bit of food left on your plate that isn’t enough to save for another meal?
What do you do when you are cooking and have pieces like stems or ends of veggies and fruits that you don’t use in your recipe?
Do you just throw them away? Here’s what I do . . .
Pollution avoided in last five years with off-grid batteries
NSW councils give up on climate solutions
What would a truly sustainable council look like?
Rats, councils, garbage and compost
Councils contractually addicted to garbage
Wildlife rescue of baby ringtail possums in Chippendale
How to grow veggies in an apartment
Coco from Japan confronts worms, flies, bugs in Chippendale, Australia
Residents lose $2 million down the drain, get hit with $1.7 million bill
How to keep rain where it falls
Is the sun setting on food waste in Chippendale?
“Wonderful decay on my first Sydney day”, Ashley Qiu
Upcoming story - Solutions to extreme market failure of Australia's Council food garbage rates
Launch of water policy at Sydney’s Sustainable House
What I have learned and achieved through internship
A farm garden for off-farm income
Hills of Gold - trees, birds, beauty threatened by greed
The public cost of politicians' greed
Sean Johnson tracks some donations to politicians and publishes them on his site, Open Politics. Here are his most recent thoughts on corruption in federal politics in Australia.