The fifth World Parks Day will take place on Monday 17 September 2012. World Parks Day is an opportunity to celebrate our parks and green spaces. Any organization or individual can host a park event on World Parks Day.
Every 22 September, people from around the world get together in the streets, intersections, and neighbourhood blocks on Carfree Day to remind the world that we don’t have to accept our car-dominated society.
Now in its 14th year, Walk to Work Day on Friday 28 September 2012 is an annual event which helps employers and employees to build regular walking into their daily routine.
World Rivers Day is celebrated annually on the last Sunday in September. In 2011, and estimated several million people across more than 60 countries celebrated the many values of our waterways.
Eco-topia is the 5th ACFCGN National School and Community Gardens Gathering, an event where school and community gardeners and people whose work includes support for community and school gardens come together to share their experience and learnings, ideas and solutions, …
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Sydney’s Tank Stream is significant in Australia’s colonial history, but is now buried in stormwater drains. It is one of many lost waterways around the world that have been buried beneath our urban areas. There are substantial economic, social and …
Australia’s lost urban waterways – sites for the daylighting urban streams map? Read more »
After a brief lapse, the well-known RipRap magazine is back with a new look and approach to sharing knowledge. The latest edition is on ‘bringing back native fish’. RipRap started in 1997 and collates and synthesises science and practice around …
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Globally, urban growth will add 1.5 billion people to cities by 2030, making the difficult task of urban water provisions even more challenging. In the article Global Urban Growth and the Geography of Water Availability, Quality, and Delivery, the authors …
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Water Sensitive South Australia is a means to find out what SA practitioners need in Water Sensitive Urban Design. It is an opportunity for you to talk about what you need, when you need it and how. What skills, information, relationships …
The film Bimblebox draws attention to the issues surrounding the huge expansion of coal and coal seam gas mining in Eastern Australia. While very clearly exposing the destructiveness of this industry, the film also features solutions and viable alternatives for …
Environmental documentary ‘Bimblebox’ screenings across Australia Read more »