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By way of explanation

This website reports mainly on issues of sustainability but makes excursions into media, travel, international development and community-based enterprise.

Writing on society and public affairs is found at Australia's current affairs journal, Online Opinion. Articles about urban food systems are found in the pages of ABC Organic Gardener magazine and Community Harvest.

Communications services

Russ Grayson provides:
organisational communications, journalism, editing, online content production, training manual production, presentations.

Current projects

Current editing, journalism, online content projects:

Unheard Voices of the Bush - the AusAID-funded assessment of food security and livelihoods of isolated areas of upland Malaita, Solomon Islands

Policy directions document on food production in community gardens for Marrickville Council

Editing, design of brochures on plant diseases of crops for Solomon Island farmers, supported by lthe Secretariat for the Pacific Community and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.

Ongoing projects

TerraCircle international development agency, South West Pacific: media support

Sydney Food Fairness Alliance:
communications team

Macarthur Centre for Sustainable Living:
newsletter editor

Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network:
media liaison

Permaculture International:
Board of Directors & online content support

Online Opinion, Australia's online journal of current affairs: columnist

Uncrowded surf, crystal clear water, living reefs, tropical rainforest, great reef breaks, tribal people...

Surfing and cultural adventures for sustainable, local development

www.surfsolomons.com


Page updated:
Thursday, 25 October 2007


People of the Pacific's mountainous islands...

...the bush people of the isolated Central Kwara’ae and Central Baelelea territory of Malaita, Solomon islands...  

The TerraCircle team, a regional development assistance and training consultancy consisting of Australians and Solomon Islanders, has completed an assessment of food security and livelihoods of the isolated, forested regions of upland Malaita, Solomon Islands.

The report is in preparation and will be accessible at: www.terracircle.org.au, where previous assessments of the isolated weather coasts of Guadalcanal and Makira islands can be downloaded.

Reportage...

Profiigancy, greed or too much money?
An adaptation of the ecological footprinting process reveals Sydney's Eastern Suburbs has a higher than average footprint despite the presence of poverty
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Drought makes urban food production more than a good idea
Drought and the prospect of having to import our food highlights the importance of urban fringe farming, home and community food gardens
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Travel...

Byron Bay Blues
Byron Bay - party town for visitors or home town for residents? Tourism, backpackers and noise trouble an idyllic coastal town
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The food system...

On bad mandarin
An experience with bad fruit leads to the question - just how old is this stuff they sell us?
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Memoir...

Authors lost and found
Authors long lost discovered in Byron and Manly
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An excursion into shared memory: A forgotten house, a Red Phone and a strange package that went BANG!
For reasons I don’t quite recall I was walking down Glebe Point Road
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Papers

Get Your Message Out
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Communicating Development
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Communicating the Environmental Message
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Permaculture Goes to School
[ more ]

The Permaculture Papers...
after 26 years, where to now for the Permaculture design system?
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Sydney's Radical Past Revisited... memoir as oral history.
[ more ]

Getting your message across... a guide to producing and publishing information for community, small business and non-government organisations.
[ more ]

TerraCircle publications

TerraCircle publications -
download PDF documents:

food security assessments of Solomon Island weather coasts and upland Malaita

training manuals for development workers in the tropical Pacific

trainee manuals for rural livelihoods.

other publications


Travellers in sustainability - a German woman and Englishman spending time as WWOOFERS - WiIling Workers on Organic Farms - in Northern NSW.

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