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Designing the kitchen

The kitchen may be the best place in your house to relax and unwind. In living room there are lots of things that can make your leisure time a bit more pleasing. There you can enjoy listening to favorite music or anything else. Of course the main purpose of bedroom is to give you an opportunity to sleep and to forget about all the troubles which you have faced during a day. The kitchen, on the other hand, implies a challenge: it can make you hang up your daily suit, set aside your formal gown, take off your stylish shoes, and get down to cooking business as you leave the day's stresses go down the drain. If you have got a well-designed kitchen, this is a nice thing to gain lots of good feeling when you come to it. There are lots of various design ideas that are constantly being developed. In case you are looking for kitchen designing thoughts, you may find them in your local furniture and design store, where pre-fabricated set ups may show you how the dining set, kitchen island, and cabinets can all come together to make a great kitchen. You can also find nice kitchen design ideas in your beloved style and interior decorating magazine or use the help of remodeling contractor. The bad news is that frequently such kitchen remodeling thoughts cost a lot, and you have to be quite a wealthy man to utilize them to your kitchen or use all your savings to perform it. The other great method to have some interesting ideas about development of your kitchen is to have them from your friends and relatives, such ideas won't require paying any money. There is no reason to think about some kitchen design thoughts if you do not compare it to your kitchen. You may want a country kitchen, but that may stick out like a sore thumb in a newest home. It may be the same situation if your house is full of luxury elements of interior and you are going to apply some minimalist ideas to your kitchen. Read the rest of this entry »

Students of Sustainability

This year’s Students of Sustainability conference finally has a venue confirmed and registration is now open!!! This year, the fourteenth annual SoS will be held at Monash (Clayton) University in Melbourne, from the 10th - 15th July.

Registration is still open. Please register if you haven’t done so already! Please note, early bird registration has ended.

Students of Sustainability (SoS) is the largest student-run environment based conference in Australia. Each year SoS offers an amazing opportunity for students, activists, academics, environment and Indigenous groups, and members of the wider community from around Australia to come together to share and gain knowledge, skills and information on environmental and social justice issues. Featuring a vast array of inspiring speakers, practical workshops, field trips and empowering activities, SoS is the most important event of the year for environment activists and people wishing to learn more about how to create positive social change in their communities.

If we could plot out all the intricate ways
that the Students of Sustainability conference
influences
the political landscapes
the natural landscapes
the interpersonal landscapes in Australia

we would weave a web that runs thick through this country and beyond.
woven with stories of blockades, forums, worm farms, bush medicines
and songlines…
Courageous people in Papua New Guinea, Jabiluka, Terania Creek, Kupa
Piti, Melbourne. People who defend the global environmental commons
against great odds, balanced out with those who challenge us to live
simply and efficiently:

If you watched it from afar, you might be tempted to say “But they
are only students”. They do not have any official power…
Yet we are students with the demands of history on our conscience:
Demanding that those in power respect the integrity of the land and its people
and understanding the responsibility and the hope attached to being
young people alive in our times.

And so as we stand amid the violent waves of economic restructuring
of student and environmental movements alike
that several politicians hope will sweep us far out to sea.
Let us know
that we have been in the deep end all along
we have survived, and we are surviving by reaching out to the community.

The legacy of SoS that continues today.
is a living history in the present tense: all the projects and
aspirations of those who have gone before us are still alive today in
some form or another…

Each person who comes to SoS
brings a world with them
and throughout the conference
integrates that consciousness into a larger whole
through their ideas, creativity and energy

leaving the week
with a glow in their eyes
not from radium or some other radioactive substance
but some other kind of chain reaction
that will also last for thousands of years to come.