Landcare, law and habit

Civic Practice

How Landcare actually works, how to read an impact statement, and the circular habits that survive January.

A backyard compost bin with the lid open, the unglamorous infrastructure of a household that still returns scraps to a heap in summer

Circular habits that survive January

A guest note on the circular habits that outlast a New Year list: repair, op shops, the FOGO bin, and the small reuse that does not die in a heatwave. Virtue that needs a cool morning will not see February. The rest can be ordinary.

Priya Nair · 13 September 2024 · 9 min read

Tall wet eucalypt forest at Sherbrooke in Belgrave, the sort of remnant a Landcare group might weed, plant and walk for years

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How Landcare actually works

Landcare is a group, a grant cycle and a Saturday that looks like gloves and a sausage. It is also volunteer fatigue, a trailer that needs registration, and the long work of weeds that return. Here is the civic machine, without the brochure.

Samira Blake · 13 September 2024 · 9 min read

The Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains, a landscape of the kind that sits behind many New South Wales planning fights and impact statements

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How to read an environmental impact statement

An EIS is a long argument dressed as a folder of facts. A SEE is a smaller cousin. Submissions, offsets and the maps the consultant did not dwell on are how a civic reader stays honest. You do not need to be a lawyer. You do need a method.

Samira Blake · 13 September 2024 · 9 min read