Blueprint For Living - Separate stories

Tim Entwisle, former director of Royal Botanic Gardens takes Jonathan for an annual tour of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, this year with an emphasis on native plants, diversity and sustainability.

If you are dressed head to toe in black, polyester, nylon or some combination thereof, you may need a dress doctor. Stat. 

Dr Soon-Tzu Speechley, lecturer in Urban and Cultural Heritage at the University of Melbourne, talks about a brick he dug up in his garden and what it reveals about the history and evolution of architectural style, the expansion of brickworks in 19th-century Melbourne, and our increasingly disposable attitudes towards buildings.

At her Lorne restaurant, Little Picket, award-winning chef, Jo Barrett shows Jonathan Green the dish she would cook if it was her last meal on earth.

Raw meat, egg slonking, seed oil panic and the war on “soy globalism” -  welcome to the dizzying dietary fixations of the alt right.

A Blueprint segment in which designers, makers, creators and aesthetes of all persuasions to talk about a special object in their life.

Who owns the road, and why?

From the velocipede in the early 1800s to its more modern incarnation, featuring tubular metal frames, wire-spoked wheels, pneumatic tyres, and gears, design writer and critic, Colin Bisset gives us a potted history of the development of the bicycle.

Jonathan Green puts his life on the line to ride a penny farthing.

The city of Paris is about to enact an ambitious new climate Plan; at it's heart is a commitment to building a cyclist friendly urban centre.