Permaculture
While walking through collingwood gardens, I found this great community vege patch at the collingwood childrens farm, not unlike the one set up in StKilda (accross the road from Luna Park). What is great about this setup however is the idea of community and education. I think that it is important to educate children in relation to these issues.
There was a campaign launched around this concept (helped by french child psychologist G. Clotaire Rapaille (mentioned below)) that in order to introduce coffee into Japan (who are a huge target market, but have always been heavy tea drinkers and didn't like the bitter taste of coffee) they would have to begin their focus on children, so that when they were the right age to start spending their money - coffee was as common place as tea.
It is this line of thinking that I believe needs to be applied to things like permaculture and water saving. The problem with our aging society is that these are the people (and I am making an assumption) who are unwilling to change, that just assume they won't make the difference and therefore don't try. It is the children we need to be targeting. - Think of the children.
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