Just add water – Just add trees A bloke rang in to speak with Ian ‘Macca’ McNamara, Australia All Over (ABC Radio 6 Aug. 23) to say he found that a way…

Planetary health recognises the health of the planet as a system.  It incorporates human health as one portion of the whole, placing it within the larger framework that is Public Health,…

PICTURE: People are still emailing in poems and love letters more than a decade on.(ABC Radio Melbourne: Zilla Gordon) Love trees in our neighbourhood? Enough to write them a letter…

PICTURE: Top - Titled 'View from Munibung Hill', artist Luke Adams with this expansive painting that is the feature of his major work on exhibition at Lake Mac MAC until…

PICTURE:  Time for some down time. Source: Internet search When nothing is something worth doing Subtraction and multiplication at Munibung Hill   WHAT ISN'T THERE can often surpass what is,…

PICTURE:  Newcastle City Councillor Elizabeth Adamczyk has visions that the city will provide healthy ecosystems that support native pollinators. Native-friendly foliage corridors "On roadways, median strips, on the walls, balconies…

PICTURE: Linda Drummond, author, How to Raise Outdoor Kids, Australian Geographic. Image sourced from internet. Our motto for getting kids outdoors: Make it Munibung LINDA DRUMMOND author of How to Raise Outdoor Kids delivered a…

PICTURE: Within a Steady State Economy, the interests of the Earth are kept in balance with the interests of the society that has created the economy - not the other…

A group excursion with a modicum of exertion Yet another bush 'n' burbs loop, this time with a much larger group.  Seventeen people - members of East Lakes Walkers -…

Healing Country for this and future generations Munibung Hill is not alone in being a virtual island landscape cut off from surrounding bushland, which landlocks many species of wildlife living…