Victoria signals end of coal by announcing a new 95% renewable target. It’s a risky but vital move.

Wood, T. (2022, October 20). Victoria signals end of coal by announcing a new 95% renewable target. It’s a risky but vital move. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/victoria-signals-end-of-coal-by-announcing-a-new-95-renewable-target-its-a-risky-but-vital-move-192941

An interactive map to visualise a data set of trees in municipal street and park trees.

OpenTrees.org. (2022). Opentrees.org. http://opentrees.org/#pos=8/-37.81/144.96

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MELBOURNE’S ERRATIC CLIMATE - MELBOURNE, Wednesday. - Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954) - 26 Jan 1928. (2014). Trove; Trove. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/93659230?searchTerm=climate%20Melbourne#

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When it comes to strategies of environmental management in Australia, the voices and aspirations which have been largely missing, both historically and contemporaneously, are those of Australia’s First Peoples.

First Peoples view Country as kin to be looked after and actively loved. Australia’s First Peoples have been developing complex technologies, practicing aquaculture, making bread, farming and caring for Country for many millennia. 

Read about it here.

How Aboriginal perspectives can shape new landscapes. (2020, March 19). The Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub. https://nespurban.edu.au/2020/03/19/how-aboriginal-perspectives-can-shape-new-landscapes/

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The future of our cities is Indigenous (University of Melbourne Research article)

Our cities are located on unceded Aboriginal lands. Yet cities can feel openly hostile to Indigenous peoples. They don’t reflect our cultural values or sense of place.

Melbourne is located alongside the Birrarung, a river that has nourished countless generations before us. Today, the scales are off balance, the river is choked with pollutants and as we don’t care for the Birrarung, it is unable to care for us.

Wurundjeri Elders see it as their cultural duty to return the river to health and invite all people to walk with them so that one day the river will be healed to provide nourishment for the many generations that come after.

Miller, M. (2022). The future of our cities is Indigenous. Research, University of Melbourne. https://research.unimelb.edu.au/research-at-melbourne/climate-hub/our-climate-capability/future-of-our-cities-is-indigenous

The. (2020). Climate Conversations - Australia in 2029: A Hypothetical Future [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBWBMIKUpVU&ab_channel=TheUniversityofMelbourne

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Cool Routes

Due to climate change, Melbourne is experiencing more hot weather and heat wave events than ever before. While City of Melbourne is working to cool the city. they are also exploring new ways people can keep cool when moving about the city.

Cool Routes - City of Melbourne. (2022). Vic.gov.au. https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/parking-and-transport/streets-and-pedestrians/Pages/cool-routes.aspx

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