Phd candidate in environmental history, La Trobe University
After finishing honours in environnmental history, I moved into environmental planning and sustainability, worked for community organisations promoting alternative building styles and have returned to history to do a thesis on 'people off grid' in Australian history.
Friday essay: the Australians who pioneered self-sufficiency, generations before Nimbin
Jul 12, 2019 09:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The term self-sufficiency commonly evokes images of communes, yurts and 1970s hippies, most likely living off the land in northern New South Wales. More recently, it has been linked to an explosion of interest in solar...
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