15 episodes
Green Adelaide Podcast Melissa Martin
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Your insider scoop on all things cool, green and wild in metropolitan South Australia.Do you want or have a career in South Australia’s environmental sector? Then this podcast is for you!
We are your enviro-exclusive on the people, projects and news of metropolitan SA.
The Green Adelaide Podcast is hosted by our Communications Manager, Melissa Martin.
On each episode she'll interview a local enviro-expert. From leaders and ecologists to planners and marketers to understand their career journey in and around the sector, as well as breakdown top environmental matters.
We’re not your regular environmental podcast, we’re your cool cultural podcast. How we live with our environment in Adelaide is a culture that we must talk about.
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Ep 14: w/ Mandy Jones | Conservation & Detection Dogs SA + dogs + detecting endangered or pest species + springer spaniels + rigorous training + conservation work + real-world conservation challenges
You are listening to the Green Adelaide Podcast. I am your host, Melissa Martin. Welcome to episode 14. We are in season 2 of the pod and we are talking dogs.Not just any dogs, we are specifically talking about dogs who do conservation work for Adelaide’s environment. I am joined by one of Adelaide’s leading conservation and detection dog handlers and trainers Mandy Jones. Mandy owns and runs her business called Conservation and Detection Dogs SA. Head to the website: conservationdo...
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Ep 13: w/ Alison Collins | Adelaide's Urban Greening Strategy + urban planner + enhancing tree canopy + cooling urban areas + fostering biodiversity + LiDAR technology + green roofs and walls + climate change adaptation
To kick of season 2 we are talking about a new pathway to change Adelaide’s tree trajectory. It’s Adelaide first metro-wide Urban Greening Strategy. Have your say: greenadelaide.sa.gov.au/projects/adelaide-greening-strategy Consultation open between 30 April and 28 June 2024.On behalf of the South Australian Government, we at Green Adelaide, released the draft strategy for consultation on 30 April to increase metropolitan Adelaide’s tree canopy, cool the city and boost biodiversity....
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Ep 12: w/ Rodney Welch & Warwick Keates | City of Port Adelaide Enfield & Wax Design | Yitpi Yartapuultiku/Aboriginal Cultural Space + Port Adelaide + Kaurna + cultural destination + landscape design + Aboriginal engagement + landscape architecture
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...
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Ep 11: w/ Dr Nadine Kelly | River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari + lamprey + sponge cities + water engineer + water bugs + river +fish
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...
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Ep 10: w/ Dr Sheryn Pitman | Ecological literacy, nature education, how our city got National Park City status
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...
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Ep 9 RERUN: w/ Prof Chris Daniels and Brenton Grear + rewilding + platypus + River Torrens + environmental industry + career
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...