Ep. 15: Living Waters is an ecovillage set on 57 lush acres in Denmark, WA. Founder Dave Coleman explains how worms and s**t are foundational building blocks in permaculture.

Ep. 14: The “Soupie” in Margaret River is not like other soup kitchens. Since the mid-90s Dave Seegar has been serving up a vegan feast twice a week.

In Yallingup, Western Australia, we meet permaculture expert Warwick Rowell, who spent more than a decade attempting to establish an ecovillage in the area.

After dropping Eirik off at the airport in Perth we head south to visit the sustainability-minded Pinakarri co-housing community.

While most people felt the pinch when the global market collapsed, it made plans extremely difficult, if not impossible, for some families in Western Australia who were trying to establish ecovillages to create a more sustainable lifestyle. Nervous banks either denied or withdrew support from what they thought was too experimental in an unstable economic climate. We look at two struggling projects, the Geraldton Urban Ecovillage and Somerville Ecovillage, near Perth.

Since April 1970, Prince Leonard I has claimed the Hutt River Province a sovereign nation.

Port Hedland may not be the most scenic of towns, but its beaches still offer a natural spectacle.

A 2000 km drive in three days before we farewelled the old year from the camel’s back and went looking for dinosaurs.

If Rudolph were here, he would have been eaten by now.

Alien spacecrafts! Abductions! Government conspiracies! …and a powered campsite for the night, thank you!

One night at our caravan park in Alice Springs we ran into an unwelcome stanger…

Molly Clark talks about the function of shortwave radios in the bush before there were telephones.

After a quick stop at Australia’s most famous landmark, Uluru, we head to Alice Springs in search for 87-year-old outback pioneer Molly Clark.

Backpackers Ian and Sara were lucky to walk away with only a few scratches when their campervan took a tumble on the highway.

Coober Pedy, the opal capital of the world. It’s a fascinating place, but we’re not here for the gemstones…

Curious about life in an ecovillage? Watch this extended interview with Elizabeth Heij from Aldinga Arts Ecovillage.

A presentation of The Inland Sea at La Trobe University during the Media and Cinema Studies Program’s postgraduate conference in November 2010.

The Aldinga Arts EcoVillage in South Australia is a sustainable community 30 years in the making. We meet up with villagers Lynda McCarty, Elizabeth Heij and Adrian Oakey.

Eirik Laugerud ponders the significance of giving fellow drivers a sign of recognition on the desert highways.

The beginning of a small adventure down under.