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.
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.
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.
Here comes the sun… A podcast from Radio 2SER-FM’s Razor’s Edge program on social inequality and some burning truths.
“An architect might have a vision. Look at my wonderful green vision. They get permissions from councils and other bodies. Along the way to it being developed the money runs out. And suddenly the green bits fall off first. Eventually you have a non-green landscape. The notion of amenity has gone.” – Dr Peter Davies in a report from City Hub, Sydney.
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.
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.
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.
