Australian Conservation Foundation

ACF is a national, environmental organisation that values and promotes in all Australians a love for this ancient island continent, its seas and waters and its unique life forms and landscapes. Seeks to protect biological diversity and recognises that human society and economic activity depends upon the sustainability of the planet's natural systems. Pursues positive solutions to environmental issues, which include consideration of social and cultural impacts.

The Slow Guide

Slow Guides are for anybody who wants to slow down and live it up, seachange without shifting postcode. They celebrate all that’s local, natural, traditional, sensory and most of all gratifying about living in Sydney and Melbourne.

Sydney Organic Gardens

Beautiful organic gardens that have a positive impact on our natural environment. An organic garden is a bountiful productive ecosystem that sustains life. Natural processes are understood and allowed to flourish, and plants, animals and people interact in positive, life affirming ways. The combination of good design and smart organic maintenance techniques result in a thriving sustainable garden.

Ethical Threads ... Style with Soul

By using sustainable and environmentally-friendly materials and by ensuring their workers and farmers are paid a fair price for their labours, a small group of textile manufacturers and designers are creating clothing for us that can reverse the appalling state we are in now. All we have to do is use our power as conscious consumers to create a revolution in the way our clothes are produced.

TibetSydney 

A TibetSydney hand-weave isn't a rug; it's a story. A story where one becomes part of the narrative. To engage is both a sensual and highly intellectual experience. One is woven into the story of the piece ... Ongmo and Linkins, have gone to extraordinary lengths to establish a studio workshop in Kathmandu unlike any other. "We have a profound investment in the culture - but we bring to it a modernity and worldliness, authentic to our experience."

EcoSmart Fires

The EcoSmart Fire is an Australian innovation - and environmentally friendly open fireplace. Flue less and does not require installation or utility connection for fuel supply, which makes it ideal for just about any architectural environment. Fuelled by a renewable modern energy (Denatured Ethanol), it burns clean and is virtually maintenance free.

Social and Sacred Ecology

Explorations about becoming a lifelong, wise, loving warrior for human-nature synergies. Over 10 days we explore and regenerate our life supports for meeting the challenge to be sustainable in the struggle for life in all its richness, including our own. The emphasis is on using the experience of being in wilderness and in community to bring the meaning of social and sacred ecology alive. We all face the fact that nothing less than transformation of our culture is needed if we are to live within the earth's limits. Our challenge is to regenerate experience of being embedded in nature as sacred life.

Cycling Promotion Fund

A wonderful resource for people who ride a bike. CPF's key objective is to increase the level of safe cycling in Australia. Their community based programmes are designed to encourage more people to participate in and enjoy the multiple benefits of cycling. Promotion has to happen at a range of levels, the individual, the business sector, the community and the government.

 Neco

Neco is driven by a vision of a living environment that is comfortable, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable. Neco have an underlying trust in people and organisations to make good choices when the information is available to them and the solutions are genuinely available and within reach.