Small changes that feel good and add up, at home, in the garden and on the way out the door.
Sustainable Living
Schulz Organic Dairy in Timboon has sold milk in returnable glass since 2017, and from July its bottle is made in South Australia instead of shipped in from overseas.
That smell when rain lands on warm ground has a name, an Australian one, and behind it is a partnership between soil bacteria and tiny creatures that is 400 million years old.
Tucson, Arizona had 112 days over 38 degrees in 2024. Its answer is a million trees by 2030, native species chosen for birds and pollinators as much as shade, and up to three free trees for any household on the streets that need them most.
Finger limes, wattleseed, sea succulents and the people who grow them fill Carriageworks on Saturday and Sunday, with Kylie Kwong and Bruce Pascoe among the cooks and storytellers.
A new study from the University of California San Diego on what happens when we share good news finds the magic is not in understanding the teller. It is in feeling glad alongside them.
Researchers at Oxford, Harvard, UCL and Gallup put a number on something every family table already knows: people who eat with others more often are happier, wherever in the world they live.
Festival of the Winds has turned Bondi Beach into a moving painting every September since 1978. This year's is today, Sunday 13 September, it is free, and the best way in is the train and a walk down the hill.
POEM FOREST plants a native tree in Wollongong for every nature poem a student or teacher sends in. More than 22,800 are already growing, and this year's round closes on 25 September.
Spring is here, and so are four things worth having on the bench or in the pantry: a trowel pressed from bottle caps, a nursery of the native plants our birds and insects depend on, native flavours for the pantry, and furniture that comes back to be made again.
More than 17,000 native plants are in the ground across sixteen sites in Lismore, some already taller than the people who planted them, and three spring planting mornings are open to anyone with a spare pair of hands.
Started by a Barcelona neighbourhood and a Portland PE teacher, the bike bus has become the loveliest way to get to school: a moving line of kids on bikes, parents front and back, music on, cars left at home. New school terms in the north are starting the same way this month.
The same kangaroo grass that carpets a Sydney headland is being milled into flour on Country, and it is turning up on some of the best tables in the land.
