Introduction
The Mount Pleasant Road Story
The environmental lifestyle
Our Recent Yesterday
A personal recollection
An Innovator Ahead of His Time
The beginning of an
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The Lemprill house designed by the author and built by Macgregor Knox and Shane Aumont
THE difference between this and my previous book, Living in the Environment, is more
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The environmental lifestyle
THE Shire of Eltham has achieved a remarkable reputation as a district of artists, writers, environmentalists and other eccentric inhabitants during
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A personal recollection
THE shape and nature of the city of Melbourne has greatly changed from the one in which I grew up. In 1914, just before the First World War, I was two
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The beginning of an idea
IT is difficult to evaluate the post-war metamorphosis by looking back. It has caused such enormous changes to every aspect of living that it is hard to
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The individual approach to building
In environmental building 'the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong'. My first evidence of this was when Alma
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The Boer and the computer engineer
AN ever-increasing number of single and married people are feeling the challenge of getting back to a simple lifestyle free from the fruitless
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A case study in community action
THE building industry in Australia rises to a crescendo every December. The climax precedes the five-week holiday break which starts around the
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An attainable dream
IT did not immediately register that David and Helen Hyatt were candidates for the alternative lifestyle when they called at our office. They planned to bypass
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The fusion of engineering with nature
In the cause of environmental design in building, landscape and survival, it is sometimes necessary in Australia to travel thousands of miles
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An alternative to suburbia
SINCE about 1950 there has been a determination on the part of the manufacturers of household appliances to persuade us that convenience of life and
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Survival in a dismal economy
Tomorrow? Why tomorrow I may be
Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.
IT would be beyond comprehension that we could spend so much time
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The surprising discovery
I have had eight children by two marriages spread out over nearly forty years. This has given me considerable opportunity to compare educational
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Ingredients of the environmental lifestyle
Two of the most fundamental substances in the material world are earth and grain. Each is essential to the environmental lifestyle.
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