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celebrating food, a lost art & ramblings from an impromptu dinner soiree

April 11, 2012

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There are a number of geographical orphans in our circle of friends, we call ourselves La familia and we congregate at the Flavella Del Eagle (Friend’s converted warehouse in St. Kilda) regularly for a ‘pot-luck’. Maya Zerman is the director, she instigates what course we’re bringing and what time to converge, Victor Holder is usually […]

Project jar re-use: an ingenious accounting system

April 9, 2012

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For all of those small business proprietors out there, here is my fool-proof book-keeping system.  If you’re like me, staying on top of your receipts can be a chore, to the point that a lot of expenses go unclaimed. With organising the new shop and managing my clinic my wallet is bulging with tax invoices. […]

what’s in a glass jar: a 101 on embodied energy analysis

April 3, 2012

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I thought it would be easy…re-usable glass jars are an obvious choice when it comes to environmentally sustainable packaging, right? Well, to answer this question I had to look at 2 concepts, the embodied energy and the life cycle of the material. These 2 aspects in themselves are complex and multifactorial, to say the least.  […]

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