Love my Merrell barefoot runners. This is one place that you can find some to choose from and try…read morethem on. Fab.

If you are in the Newtown area and you have not already, call into the Watershed and check it out…read more I wish every suburb had something like The Watershed, it would certainly increase the chances of us saving our planet. It is completely free and is an initiative, set up by the City of Sydney Council and Marrickville Council. The purpose is to offer practical means and methods in sustainable living. They offer services such as a bike library ,which offers free use of bicycles, cargo bikes and bicycle trailers so that people can use them instead of their cars. They also provide services to teach local businesses how to be more environmentally sustainable. Also on offer are free workshops that teach urban sustainability so you can learn about composting, worm farming and natural cleaning. The whole concept is fantastic and the councils should be proud for spending money in such a worthwhile and ethical way. Maybe there is hope.

These guys provide great support for the Tech community in Sydney providing event space (which also…read morehas free wifi like Google does), a soft drink vending machine (where you don't have to pay), beer fridge (with many quality brews.. sometimes theres three sheets beers in here), and also beer taps (yes BEER TAPS** in an office). On the other side of things, they do provide a very robust enterprise quality suite of products for companies, from a large IT department, or a medium sized software house, to a small digital agency or tech startup. ** = Drink responsibly and refrain from hopping into the drivers seat of a car or doing production deployments after consuming