Darebin Parklands - the book
Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine
How to order Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine
In person: purchase at any DPA event. The final opportunity for the year to do this is Friday 2 December 2011, when we will be selling books at Alphington Bowling Club's barefoot bowls and barbecue night, between 6-8pm. Credit card, cash and cheque sales will be available on this night.
Please note: books are not for sale from the parklands environment centre.
We will also be selling books at DPA events in 2012. Our first scheduled event for 2012 is our information evening on 28 February. A full calendar of events will be published shortly on this website and our Facebook page.
By post: download an order form from this page (or pick one up from the parklands environment centre) and post with payment by cheque or money order to PO Box 3, Ivanhoe, 3079.
Online: go to our secure online store and pay using your credit or debit card or PayPal account.
Print and post this order form with your payment, or skip the paperwork and purhcase through our secure online store.
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Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine by Dr Sarah Mirams, with foreword by former Australian of the Year Professor Tim Flannery, is now available from the DPA's secure online store, where you can purchase with your credit card or PayPal account. Click here to go to our secure online store.
Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine is a beautifully illustrated coffee table book that tells the story of the land our park is created on – from the First Nation indigenous owners to the farmers and industrialists who later occupied the site. It tells of how concerted community action over a generation saw the land saved “from the claws of the machine”.
“I commend this story to anyone who has a vision for improving his or her community, who seeks inspiration to make it happen.”
From the foreword by former Australian of the Year, Professor Tim Flannery
Read the news release and media backgrounder.
Read the story "How 'mother of the park' helped grow a suburban oasis from a tip" by Carolyn Webb in The Age.
Read about the book in The Age
In a city that has happily trashed itself for decades, one community was determined to clean up its act and help nature reclaim itself from rubbish, writes Jenny Brown.
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