Wren met with Michael Murray, shareholder of Mevlana for 25 years, at the eastern end of the community lands where a large coastal melaleuca swamp forest has been regenerated. “We removed camphor, lantana and other weeds so that the native vegetation could again dominate the site” Like other wetland forest ecosystems, a large amount of…
Wren McLean – ZEB’s Replant Co ordinator We met Bunya in his mega diverse, multi-strata successional food forest. A land restoration project that uses an evolving understanding of natural succession. Over the past 6 years a previous monoculture farm paddock has been converted into a successional food forest. Restoring ecological services by incorporating native plants…
This year’s Sustainable House Day is March 19 but check out the website here as there are a raft of resources permanently available plus a program of workshops that runs for a month after the 19th. All featured homes will have a video showing the elements of interest and owners will either open their doors …
Wren McLean – ZEB’s Replant Co ordinator I caught up with Eco-Recharge bush regenerator Edward Phillips who was working with colleague Dom Trucillo in a riparian planting along Blindmouth Creek, Main Arm behind Mullumbimby. While discussing the project a vulnerable White-eared Monarch began vocalising loudly from the 15m canopy making sure its presence and its…
Maybe you know a little, maybe a lot about energy. How it’s generated in Australia and how well it gets used it in our homes and the broader built environment. ZEB Board Member, Seb Crangle, knows heaps and had this to say about the National Energy Performance Strategy (NEPS).”It it so heartening to see the…