Home of Sustainable Shopping Streets of the World

This is the home of Sustainable Shopping Streets of the World - your guide to finding all the best sustainable shops and eateries across the Planet. Thankfully, there is an increasing number of green businesses setting up in this post-mass consumption era of sustainable living and many of them are locating next to each other in some of the nicest urban precincts you'll find.

Check out the East Village, New York, NY

Check out Melbourne, Australia

Check out Brighton, UK

Check out Berkeley, California

Check out Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia

Check out Portland, Oregon

ABC Radio Interview

Listen to Michael's recent interview with ABC Radio's Bush Telegraph Program in which he provides his take on how to have a sustainable holiday in Australia.

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Sustainable Shopping Streets - Surry Hills, Sydney

Sydney's popular inner-city villages contain a smattering of sustainable businesses, including Newtown, Glebe and Darlinghurst, but the fastest growing has been Surry Hills, an easy walk east of Central Sydney between Oxford Street to its north and Cleveland Street to its south.

A walk south down Crown Street - the retail spine of Surry Hills - will take you close to all the best sustainable shops in Surry Hills. The northern end of Crown Street is where you'll find most of the trendy vintage clothes shops; the middle section contains some great organic food stores and cafes; and the southern end of Crown and on Cleveland Street is where you'll find some trendy fashion boutique stores. Check out my favourite Sustainable Surry Hills businesses here.
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G Magazine Review of Sustainable Australian Travel For Dummies

It's generally agreed that holidaying at home is a greener option than flying to the other side of the globe for a couple of weeks. And considering how alluring a destination Asutralia is to people from all over the world, we have a pretty amazing "backyard" to explore.

Author and urban planning consultant Michael Grosvenor has put together a great guide book that makes it easy for you to make sustainable choices when planning your next domestic trip, with Sustainable Australian Travel for Dummies.

The information is specific in that all the information comes from a green perspective, yet broad in that it caters to a range of budgets and age groups.

A great deal of thought has gone into the structure of this book, making it very user-friendly. For example, there are masses of cross-references throughout the text so that you can jump to the relevant section without having to flick through the whole book.

The first third of the book deals with general travel issues: researching, planning and booking a green holiday, how to spot greenwash, supporting local economies and indigenous communities, alternatives to driving and flying, and carbon offsets.

The last two thirds address 12 regions with information about getting there, public transport and cycle paths within each region, eco-friendly accomodation, sustainable shopping, natural wonders, cultural attractions and eateries that serve organic and or local produce.

There are reasonably detailed maps of each region but not of individual towns or cities.

If you like Grosvenor's no-nonsense approach to green issues, check out his other book, Sustainable Living for Dummies.

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