The Power to Change - Renewables

Providing Leadership for a Sustainable Future

Bushfire Resilient Landscapes

BM Organic Community Gardens

Threat to P A Yeoman's Property

Video Clips of Recent Talks

The community forum on renewable energy with John Kaye MLC, Mark Diesendorf and Sue Morrison, held in September 2011 is now on YouTube.

Adjunct Professor Stuart B. Hill was Foundation Chair of Social Ecology at the University of Western Sydney. Stuart has worked in agricultural and development projects in the West Indies, French West Africa, Indonesia,

Stuart is a resident of the Blue Mountains.

Stuart's talk at the PBM AGM June 2011 is now on YouTube

David Holmgren gives a public talk on creating bushfire resilient communities and landscapes,organised by Permaculture Blue Mountains.

Thanks to Gary Caganoff for the videos.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

One of P.A. Yeoman's original properties in North Richmond on the NW outskirts of Sydney, where in the 1940's and 50's he developed the 'Keyline System', is under threat from developers wanting to fill in the dams and over time place 2000 medium density homes on the property. They have put in a DA for a retirement village of 300 houses for a start and it had almost been passed by Richmond Council when the locals began to understand the significance of the site, question the DA and take some action.

A public meeting was organised on the 27th February 2009 in North Richmond and this video has come from that meeting and preliminary meeting with Ken Yeomans (younger son of P.A.) Prof. Stuart Hill, and Dr. Les Spencer. The video focuses on the Keyline System, however Part 2 (coming soon) will look at the remaining inadequacies of the DA, such as traffic congestion, emergency response, access issues, etc, and which doesn't even address the environmental factors such as flooding and fires when the dams are taken away (which the Keyline System addresses in a whole system approach).