Hindsight: a life story workshop for seniors, is a creative approach to connecting with the local community. With our client Macquarie Community College and author Pipppa Kay, we are planning a free writing workshop for seniors in the forthcoming Seniors Week.

Seniors Week recognises that older people benefit us with their wisdom, knowledge and experience.

The Hindsight workshop fits well with this theme and reflects our client's values around lifelong learning. The idea is to honour the wisdom our elders have to share through their stories and give them the opportunity and some tools with which to do it. It is also an opportunity to tell seniors about the many courses and learning opportunities available to them through the College.

Next year we plan to build the event into a literary competition to be run annually in Seniors Week.

Thoughtfully branded and packed with diverse interpretations of sustainability, Melbourne's Sustainable Living Festival lured Kath and Elaena to Federation Square in mid Februray.

Themes of the festival were think, feel, create, design, feast and play. Lectures, exhibitors, stalls and entertainment all engaged these themes in some way.

Handbags made out of juice containers; an electric car; green plumbing; bikes galore; a cappella singing; sustainable building products; dance and meditation; all these things and so much more asked us to re-imagine our world as a more gentle place.

The festival explored the role of creativity in the change process and the relationship between art and sustainability, through message and material. We see a real parallel here with our role as communicators.

The festival also aimed to activate and engage the senses through a range of interactive mind, body, spirit experiences designed to enhance wellbeing.

Most compelling was the enormous range of original design concepts presented by innovators who are rethinking the way we design our homes, furniture, appliances and infrastructure.

Borneo's Kinabatangan River and its surrounding rainforest wetlands make up one of the richest ecosystems on the planet.

The orang sungai, or river people, have traditionally relied on the river and its wetlands for food and income. The people of Batu Putih, a village on the lower reaches of the river, developed a creative response to their concerns about decreasing diversity of animals and plants from logging and palm oil plantations.

With support from the World Wide Fund for Nature, the community established the Model Ecologically Sustainable Community Tourism Project (MESCOT).

MESCOT operates a series of successful ecotourism ventures including a homestay program, boat and guide service and handicraft production scheme. Their efforts have also restored over 50 hectares of forest.

This year the project was a finalist for the United Nations Equator Prize which honours outstanding community projects that reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.