by Karen | May 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
I’m a bike riding nerd. I love working out new and different ways to get around on my bike, I love seeing full visitor bike parking outside the supermarket and I love looking at sustainability projects to see how they’ve provided great facilities for...
by Karen | Sep 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last week I got one of those phone calls…”How quickly can you do a JV3 model?” Yep, no one had checked that the windows complied with the NCC and now they needed a building permit – today! I was pretty blunt and told them that I needed 2 weeks,...
by Karen | Jun 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
We’ve all heard about the “recycling crisis” but I haven’t heard much more about how it affects the projects we’re working on. So this article in The Age today is a bit of a prompt to find out more. “Since C & D Recycling opened...
by Karen | Jun 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’ve had a food waste system at home for the past 20 years. I don’t call it composting because my focus isn’t about making a beautiful fertilising system for a beautiful permaculture garden, it’s just about reducing what I’m sending to...
by Karen | Nov 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Today i got a lovely call from Sam at Ecoresults to ask if i was happy for him to put my name forward for a new project – yes! And while we were chatting, he mentioned that my website was down. I thought it weird because I usually check my website about once a...
by Karen | Jan 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
A few years ago, when I was still at WSP Built Ecology, I did a presentation at Green Cities. It was called “Getting our shit together – A history of human sanitation and how it might apply to building design in the future” It was fun, it tapped...
