2010 Sustainable Living Festival Melbourne
February 9, 2010 by Vesna
Filed under Sustainable Living
Sustainable Living Festival- Melbourne is in full swing. The 2010 Festival will include 2 programs: the Main Event at Federation Square (19-21 February 2010) and the Local Events Program (6-21 February 2010).
The Main Event at Federation Square in the heart…
Christmas at Sustainable Echo
December 23, 2009 by Vesna
Filed under Sustainable Living
It’s December the 23rd! Where did all 22 days disappear all so suddenly? It feels like yesterday when I filled the advent calendar for the kids and took the picture below to post on the 1st!
Nevertheless it was a VERY…
Make Your Own Bread – Inspirational Video
Bread making is one of the simplest ways to make your life more sustainable. It is not a coincidence that we say bread is staff of life. Do you make your own bread?
This inspirational video was created by Make Bread.
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Our Community Vegetable Garden Plot
November 20, 2009 by Vesna
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Finally, after more than one year since applying for a plot in the local community garden, we’ve got one! Coincidentally, we received the news on the day Sustainable Echo was celebrating its first birthday. It felt like a real anniversary…
Simple Ideas for Reusing Coconut Shells
November 11, 2009 by Vesna
Filed under Sustainable Living
9 – 15 November 2009 is National Recycling Week (Australia) founded by Planet Ark in 1996. This post is Sustainable Echo’s contribution to NRW. It’s about finding another use for something otherwise destined for the dump: the coconut shell.
Recently I…
Sustainable Eco Turns One!
November 6, 2009 by Vesna
Filed under Sustainable Living
One year has passed since we had our first blog entry published! Time is flying by so quickly, but somehow we feel Sustainable Echo has been part of our family’s life for years. In a way it is true: we’ve…
How to Roast and Eat Pumpkin Seeds
October 19, 2009 by Vesna
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Pumpkin seeds are truly nature’s wonder food. They are full of vitamins and minerals including zinc, iron, magnesium, copper and potassium. Half a cup pumpkin seeds provides us with our daily requirements of magnesium. The health benefits of eating pumpkin…
Spring in Our Urban Garden
September 15, 2009 by Vesna
Filed under Urban Garden
The days are getting longer, the soil is warming up: SPRING has arrived (in the southern hemisphere, that is)!
For now all our vegetables are growing in the container garden quite happily, as you can see below. The reason is that our small…
Another Use for Skateboards
August 31, 2009 by Vesna
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Recently I’ve found a new use for skateboards. Not only are they great for spider hideaways and dust collecting in the garage but also very useful for moving heavy objects!
Necessity is the mother of all inventions. Well, here I’m not…
Pet chickens: Keeping chickens in the city
August 17, 2009 by Vesna
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Let me introduce our gorgeous city chickens: Princess, Singapore and Sunflower. Singapore is the black one, still occasionally called “he” although reliably proving the opposite every morning. Sunflower (on the left) has brown feathers, lays biggest eggs and is first…
