Small changes that feel good and add up, at home, in the garden and on the way out the door.
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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.
There are people whose whole volunteer job is making sure the track, the sand and the view are not just for those who can walk to them.
New research with Far North Queensland's cocoa growers has found that half a chocolate bar's flavour comes from the place where the beans ferment, and Queensland's regions each taste different.
Right now, whole Dutch towns are competing to lift paving slabs out of their gardens and streets and plant something living in the gap. The prize is a golden shovel, and everybody wins.
Since July, anyone who lives in Portugal's second city rides the metro, the trains, the buses and the old trams for nothing.
Wattle Day is a week away, and it is the rare national day built entirely on looking forward.
The swap you made that turned out better than what it replaced. We would love to print it, and the clever new ones you have found.
