Nick Ray believes it’s a big world out there. And easy to get lost in it unless we cultivate a sense of home, a connectedness to place and to those we share it with. Nick is passionate about giving people simple everyday tools to help in living more lightly. He loves his bike, chickens, wife and daughter. Nick co-ordinates the Sustainable Living Foundation’s Directory platform, an online consumer guide providing information and alternatives to assist people in making more sustainable purchasing choices. He also facilitates the work of the Ethical Consumer Group, and in 2007 ran a series of public workshops and supermarket tours entitled “Shopping with a Conscience”, as well as the regular monthly ‘meal & movie’ nights. His bread and butter comes with his work at Green Collect, an inner city social firm who run a recycling collection service in Melbourne's CBD. For Festival 2008 he'd really like to be talking to you about urban food gardens, using your greywater effectively, and grass roots community action for change, but he realises there’s a big need for damage control, when it comes to big business. So here we are.