Posts Tagged ‘Urban’
GREENING A CHANGING CITY – A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE AND FUTURE OF AN URBAN FOREST
The City of Melbourne invites you to a discussion about the importance and future of an urban forest .
Greening a changing city: green infrastructure, liveability, health and climate change
Hear from keynote speaker Dr Cecil C Konijnendijk as he and fellow panellists discuss how a future urban forest might evolve. The panel will look at ways of creating better places and spaces, healthier trees and increased water storage and the combined contribution they would make to human health, wellbeing and economic sustainability.
This event is presented to mark the 2011 International Year of the Forest.
Date: Thursday 28 July 2011
Time: 6pm to 7.30pm (entry from 5.30pm)
Venue: Swanston Hall, Melbourne Town Hall, Swanston Street, Melbourne
Cost: free, no bookings
Speakers:
Dr Cecil C Konijnendijk (keynote speaker),
Professor of Green Space Management at the Danish Centre for Forest,Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen
Dr Kate Auty, Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Melbourne
Dr Rod Marsh, Economist & Associate Director, Netbalance, Melbourne
Professor Joy Murphy Wandin AO, Elder of the Wurundjeri people
Dr Dimity Williams, GP and Victorian Secretary for Doctors for the Environment Australia
Natasha Mitchell (moderator), science and health journalist and presenter of All in the mind, ABC Radio National
Grandma Monica’s Eco House Open Day 3rd October in Moonee Ponds
You are invited to Grandma Monica’s Eco-house Open Day!
ECO House and urban permaculture garden Grand Opening on 3rd of October at 10am first tour and 11am second tour. Other tours by appointment (call to arrange a time 9326 0489).
This heritage listed home has been fully retrofitted over the past one and a half years.
This is a good opportunity to see how it is possible to retrofit an historical building. It was a difficult process and I hope this tour will help you to avoid terrible mistakes. CD presentation included (in full tour), documenting the process from start to finish.
All Welcome.
Premises address:
297 Ascot Vale Road Moonee Ponds. Map 28 J 8.
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Parking available in Browning, Chaucer and Montgomery Streets up to 2 h.
Safeway Parking between Gladstone and Young Street Moonee Ponds.
How to get there:
By bicycle or
PUBLIC TRANSPORT:
Train Niddrie line Moonee Ponds Railway Station,
Tram 59 stop 31,
Tram 82 stop 33, stop in front of the house
Bus 472, 404 stop in front of the house,
All the buses going to Moonee Ponds Terminal.
Entry $10 (CD included)
Come to see what you can do to have a green garden full of goodies regardless of water scarcity. How you can purify by organic means and reuse the water from your bathroom to flush the toilet , to do your washing and to irrigate the garden.
To enjoy the hot water for free, to enjoy healthy, chemical free fresh fruit and vegetables from your own garden.
Hope to see you soon.
Urban Agriculture
Dear Member
Please find below the following AILA Vic Communiqué;
Cultivate Event – only 8 days to go, book now!
Topic: Urban Agriculture
Presenters: Dianne Moy, Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab
Adam Grubb, Permablitz
Date: Thursday 1st October
To Book: www.aila.org.au/pay
Details: See attached flyer
Mandy Bromilow
Victorian State Manager
The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects
Level 1, 41 Exhibition St, Melbourne, GPO Box 18025 Collins St East, Melbourne VIC 8003
M 0401 811 976 T 03 9016 0111 F 03 8620 3886
victoria@aila.org.au www.aila.org.au