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: conservationdog.com.au

Her dogs are expertly trained to detect a variety of scents, including those of lizards, butterflies, and the locations of feral animal homes like fox dens.

This podcast is your insider scoop on all things cool, green, and wild in metro South Australia.

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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.

This metro-wide Urban Greening Strategy will be used to bring together government, councils, non-government organisations, industry peak bodies, research institutions, Kaurna and the broader community to deliver practical greening actions that will help achieve a more liveable city.

For this episode we are joined by Alison Collins to chat about the strategy. She is an urban planner with passion and expertise in creating more liveable, greener and water sensitive neighbourhoods.

Alison has more than 20 years of experience in a wide range of state government, local government and private sector roles and currently she is Green Adelaide’s Team Leader of Planning, and she led the development the draft Urban Greening Strategy currently out for public consultation.

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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 it is expected to be open to the public in early 2025.

Our host Melissa Martin is joined by Narungga man Rodney Welch from the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council and landscape architect Warwick Keates from Wax Design to chat about this project and the environmental considerations of this future Green Star certified building.

See the design here: https://participate.cityofpae.sa.gov.au/yitpiyartapuultiku

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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 the river's history, changes, local perceptions and her oddly loved lampreys that call it home.

The Green Adelaide Podcast is your enviro-exclusive on the people, projects and news of metropolitan SA.

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.

Your insider scoop on all things cool, green and wild in metropolitan South Australia.

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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 enviro-exclusive on the people, projects and news of metropolitan SA.

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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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, green, and wild in metropolitan South Australia.

This podcast is for those who want or have a career in SA’s environmental sector.

Learn more about Adelaide's environment: greenadelaide.sa.gov.au

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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 Australian environmental sector with some top tips if you'd like to take your enviro passion to represent your community.

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, green, and wild in metropolitan South Australia.

This podcast is for those who want or have a career in SA’s environmental sector.

Learn more about Adelaide's environment: greenadelaide.sa.gov.au

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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. Explore their website: www.inaturalist.org
"iNat is where I'm at!"

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, green, and wild in metropolitan South Australia.

This podcast is for those who want or have a career in SA’s environmental sector.

We feature the experts, including the leaders and ecologists to the planners and marketers to chat the people, projects, and news of SA that you, our enviro-listeners, must know about.

I’m your host Melissa Martin and I’m the Communications Manager at Green Adelaide who loves red-tailed black cockatoos.

Learn more about Adelaide's environment: greenadelaide.sa.gov.au

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