Ghosts of Action
October 1, 2021
These are just some words from the Inner West front of a battle that finds a beautiful edge here. An empty room and the ghosts of action.
Tag: Rethinking the Urban Forest
Addison Road Community Organisation Annual Report 2019
December 17, 2019
We are catalysing change in many areas… serving our community with our largest and most diverse programme delivery in five years.
How to Make Us Happy
October 15, 2019
Our Councils that claim green credentials need to be careful they don’t head down the path of superficial ‘green virtue signalling’… The intended Inner West Council Tree Policy has the capacity to destroy our inner urban trees and canopy.
Illustrated report on ‘Rethinking the Urban Forest’
June 19, 2019
This report on Addison Road’s inaugural 2019 Rethinking the Urban Forest conference features the birds-eye views of Jayda Bicer, who kept an illustrated record of the speakers and their ideas across the day.
Living Structures
June 11, 2019
Urban trees and their associated living habitats are misunderstood when it comes to urban planning and the role living structures play in sustaining a sense of place and well-being. Listen to our interview with Radio 2SER-FM.
How to Increase the Green Spaces in our Cities
May 30, 2019
Radio National’s ‘Life Matters’ features one of the main speakers from our ‘Rethinking the Urban Forest’ conference – Dr Marco Amati, an environmental scientist and Associate Professor of International Planning at RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research. The program investigates how green spaces can be increased in urban environments.
Root and Branch – ‘Rethinking the Urban Forest’ Today
May 25, 2019
“We’ve gone from planted Australian suburbs of the post-War period to a different kind of Australian dream: more built up and denser, an unregulated death by a 1000 cuts to the urban forest.”
Beating the ‘heat island effect’ – Bruce Knobloch on 2SER-FM
May 23, 2019
Tune in here to a great podcast conversation from 2SER-FM with our own Bruce Knobloch discussing the Rethinking the Urban Forest Conference at Addison Road Community Centre on Friday 24th May.
The Hollow Tree
May 22, 2019
Can a dying tree save a city?
A major new conference called ‘Rethinking the Urban Forest’ is being convened this Friday in Marrickville at the Addison Road Community Centre. It will look how we can create a greener, better city for living creatures of all kinds, ourselves included.