Green Adelaide Podcast Melissa Martin

On this ep, we are chatting about Yitpi Yartapuultiku, meaning in English 'the Soul of Port Adelaide', which is a new Aboriginal Cultural Space being built in the heart of Port Adelaide by the local council, the City of Port Adelaide Enfield.Yitpi Yartapuultiku aims to heal Country, bring the community together and provide a place for events and tourism.The space was collaboratively designed by the council alongside local Aboriginal Custodians, Wax Design and Ashley Halliday Architects, and i...

For this episode, we’ll be talking with Dr Nadine Kelly from the Department for Environment and Water.Nadine is the current Program Leader of the Healthy Coorong, Healthy Basin project, but we’ll actually be talking with her about a different water source – the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari.We’ll chat about Dr Nadine’s environmental career journey as a water engineer and download her years of knowledge studying and working in and around the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari. You'll hear about...

For this episode, we’ll be talking with Green Adelaide’s Dr Sheryn Pitman. Sheryn completed her PhD in Ecological Literacy, where she explored some of the complex relationships people have with the natural world. For this episode we’ll be diving into Sheryn’s environmental career journey, talk a little about Adelaide’s National Park City status and what that means for our city, plus we’ll nut out the key learnings from her ecological literacy research. Green Adelaide Podcast is your...

To mark the leap year today (29 Feb), we have a re-run of our most popular episode to date with the leaders Green Adelaide Prof Chris Daniels and Green Adelaide Director Brenton Grear chatting the concept of rewilding in Adelaide, the River Torrens and the dream of reintroducing platypus to the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari one day soon.Welcome to another episode of the Green Adelaide Podcast. We are metro SA’s first environmental industry podcast.We’re your insider scoop on all things cool...

For this episode, we’ll be talking to the recently appointed Deputy Mayor of the Town of Walkerville, which is one of SA’s 17 metropolitan councils, and his name is John Zeppel. John runs an ICT business and has a passion for sustainability and the environment. His environmental passion pushed him in the direction to become a Councillor and more recently the Deputy Mayor where he chairs the Town of Walkerville’s Sustainability Committee. Learn about his unique journey into the South...

On this episode we'll be chatting with SA's local bat expert and the Team Leader of Urban Biodiversity at Green Adelaide Jason Van Weenen about Adelaide's new-ish population of grey-headed flying foxes. All your flying fox questions will be answered, including why they aren't just called bats.If you are intrigued by Jason's love of iNaturalist. You can get involved today. You'll contribute to local environmental science knowledge by signing up to iNat and recording your nature observations. E...