Local Nimbin Author of Environmental Ethics Wendy Sarkissian 'Opens the Door' to Community Sustainability, Writes JESSICA KELLETT; Wendy's Kitchen Table Talk: Sustaining Future Communities

With a fiery passion for the future of work, housing, communities and community engagement, Dr Wendy Sarkissian said it was the contrasting life in suburbia next to an Indian Reservation temperate forest that led to her passion.

While taking a short break from teaching ethics training in Adelaide for the Planning Institute, Wendy spoke of her new book Kitchen Table Sustainability: Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability.

Co-written with authors Nancy Hofer, Yollana Shore, Steph Vajda and Cathy Wilkinson, the community engagement and sustainability book 'opens the door' to the theory and practice of sustainability in people's everyday lives. …

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Publication information: Article title: Local Nimbin Author of Environmental Ethics Wendy Sarkissian 'Opens the Door' to Community Sustainability, Writes JESSICA KELLETT; Wendy's Kitchen Table Talk: Sustaining Future Communities. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Northern Star (Lismore, Australia). Publication date: June 27, 2009. Page number: 43. © 2009 APN Newspapers Pty Ltd. COPYRIGHT 2009 Gale Group.

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