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Events in June 2021
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Making High Density Development & Green Infrastructure Integration Happen
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Making High Density Development & Green Infrastructure Integration Happen
Western Australian Cricket AssociationNelson CrescentEast Perth,Presented by WA's leading Arboriculture Business . . . this conference aims to tackle - head-on – the integration of urban greening with below ground services and trees into living spaces, where you didn’t think it was possible.
State Government Ministers together with some of Australia’s leading experts join forces to outline the Disruption and Innovation around this topic, show you ways to break-down previously held barriers and to demonstrate the ‘art of the possible’. This promises to provide fresh, dynamic perspectives and practical recommendations for Local Government and Commercial Organisations alike.This event is building up to being a turning point in how we all think about integrating green infrastructure into high density development, successfully.
Ticket Price of $174.34 includes GST and a booking fee.
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Fire and Biodiversity Forum
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Fire and Biodiversity Forum
Margaret River Heart47 Wallcliffe RdMargaret River,Broadscale prescribed burning is used extensively as a fire mitigation tool in the SouthWest of WA.
In this forum we will examine its effectiveness and the ways it interacts with the natural landscape, including its impact on all living things.
Our objective is to further develop an informed and nuanced conversation around fire mitigation, responses to fire, biodiversity, people and places, in the face of a changing climate.
Tickets from $45
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Trillion Trees Challenge (19th June)
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Trillion Trees Challenge (19th June)
Whiteman Park233 Drumpellier DveWhiteman,Join us for the 2021 Trillion Trees Challenge sponsored by De Bortoli Wines.
We have a morning (8:30am-12pm) session and an afternoon session (12:30pm-4pm) available. If you would like to register for a full day of planting please book in for both sessions.
Morning tea and lunch will be provided.
If you are not feeling well or displaying COVID-19 symptoms, we respectfully ask that you stay home.
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Trillion Trees Challenge (20th June)
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Trillion Trees Challenge (20th June)
Whiteman Park233 Drumpellier DveWhiteman,Join us for the 2021 Trillion Trees Challenge sponsored by De Bortoli Wines.
We have a morning (8:30am-12pm) session and an afternoon session (12:30pm-4pm) available. If you would like to register for a full day of planting please book in for both sessions.
Morning tea and lunch will be provided.
If you are not feeling well or displaying COVID-19 symptoms, we respectfully ask that you stay home.
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CIBSE WA - Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
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CIBSE WA - Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
State Library of Western AustraliaPerth Cultural Centre, 25 Francis StPerth,This presentation will discuss the present and future infrastructure needs for electric vehicles in Australia.
Dr Chris Jones is the National Secretary of the Australian Electric Vehicle Association and chair of the WA branch. Formally trained in chemistry (B.Sc. University of New England) and plant biology (PhD, University of Western Australia) Chris took an early interest in energy, environment and sustainability issues, and was particularly motivated by a keen interest in self-sufficiency. While living in Canada conducting research into sandalwood oil biosynthesis in 2008, he rode an electric bicycle for the first time and was hooked. The start of his electric mobility journey began. Chris will give a presentation on electric mobility, and present the case that electrified transport is the best chance we have of decarbonising the sector responsible for one fifth of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. He will explain why the shift to EVs is both inevitable and necessary, and that only minor changes need to be made to facilitate an enormous shift in how we think about energy. The solar home, with a bit of help from the battery powered car, will be the crucible of the energy revolution.
Free event. The Great Southern Room Level 4, State Library of Western Australia
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Fire and the ecology
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Fire and the ecology
Gidgegannup Hall2171 Toodyay RdGidgegannup,Please join us to hear Dr Mike Bamford, fire ecologist, give an ecologist perspective on fire. The free presentation will be followed by a walk through a fire effected area of Noble Falls.
Where and how we choose to live puts us at risk, with homes in forest that quite literally has been moulded by, and is adapted to, fire. Prescription burning is no panacea and may not even reduce fuel loads and fire risk in the way some people think; in some forests it may make the fire risk greater by increasing some types of fuel.
Furthermore, fuel does not increase steadily year after year, and the dense litter that accumulates decades and centuries after a fire is different from the shrubby mid-storey that chokes forest just five years after a burn. Fuel will eventually decline in very long-unburnt forest, so are broad belts of long-unburnt forest our best insurance against wildfire?
But fire is not something to be challenged and is not a problem that can be solved. It is a risk that can be reduced through a holistic approach affecting where and how we live, and how we manage forests and woodlands. And that management needs to be based on evidence, not anecdotes and simplistic opinions.