On this show we’ll be chatting with John Kandulu, from Flinders University, about the economic value of green space. John is a Senior Research Economist.

He has over 15 years of experience as an applied economist, having worked across the education, not-for-profit, private and government sectors. 

His research focuses on formulation and assessment of policies related to natural resource and environmental management. 

His work involves calculating the anticipated net returns on potential investment opportunities, policies and projects. Currently, his research interests are centred on the design and evaluation of effective diversity and inclusion policies to support inclusive natural resource management.

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4 enviro career highlights from 2024

For our final 2024 episode, in light of ATAR results coming out this week, we are showcasing the 4 best enviro career insights that appeared on the pod during 2024. 

You’ll hear from a water engineer, place maker, landscape architect, festival organisers and an ecologist. 

Our guests talk the different roads taken to purse their career in SA’s environment sector. We hope this ep helps graduates navigate the next chapter of their story.

Congratulations to the class of 2024! Catch us for a new pod ep in 2025.

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

The pod hosted by our Communication Manager, Melissa Martin.

On each monthly 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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Meet Kate Matthews, your soil girlie (aka, soil ecologist), and PhD student at Flinders University.  

On this ep of the pod, we’ll be talking with Kate about soil - what it really is, why it is so important and Kate's recent findings into designing healthier cities with soil. 

Kate's research interests lie in the ‘bigger picture’ and how we can use soil science to inform decision-makers and landholders to create nature-positive outcomes. 

Dive into her research 'Designing healthier cities with good bacteria': www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2024/07/22/designing-healthier-cities-with-good-bacteria

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On this episode we’ll be talking fire and prescribed burning in metro SA with ecologist Kirstin Abley.

Spring in Adelaide means that the National Parks and Wildlife Service is kicking off its annual spring prescribed burn program in prep for this summer’s fire danger season. 

You’ll hear from Kirstin Abley who manages the Fire Science and Mapping Team at SA’s Department for Environment and Water. She is an ecologist with a background in threatened species, pest species management and fire ecology. 

The term ‘prescribed burning’ means the controlled use of fire on a particular area of landscape, and we’ll chat with Kirstin about its use in metro SA and its benefits from environmental to community safety.

The Green Adelaide Podcast is your insider scoop on all things cool, green, and wild in metro South Australia. It is hosted by Green Adelaide's Communication Manager, Melissa Martin. 

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On this episode, we’ll be talking the Nature Festival!  The Nature Festival is returning for its fifth year, with over 400 nature-inspired events across South Australia, from 28 Sept until 13 Oct. The pod is joined by the co-founders of the Nature Festival, the Festival Chair Vicki-Jo Russell AM, and Nature Curator Jill Woodlands, to chat how it came about and why you need to check it out this year.

The festival is about fostering SA's love of nature. It's a festival with a cause and if that cause speaks to you, please head along and support it. The program has something for everyone! Check it out now.

Disclaimer: Green Adelaide is the Principle Sponsor of the 2024 Nature Festival.  

Browse Nature Festival 400+ events: www.naturefestival.org.au
Brush up on the 2016 Nature of SA research that inspired the Nature Festival: https://www.natureofsa.org/

Green Adelaide Podcast is your insider scoop on all things cool, green, and wild in metro South Australia. The Green Adelaide Podcast is hosted by Green Adelaide's Communication Manager, Melissa Martin.

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You might not know that August is known as Platypus Month. 

So to celebrate this iconic Australian creature we’ll be re-running our episode all about platypuses and reintroducing them to metro Adelaide with the fun and knowledgeable Geoff Williams from the Australian Platypus Conservatory. 

I’ll be back with a new ep for the pod next month!

This episode we’ll be diving deep into the details of re-introducing platypus to an urban area with platypus expert Geoff Williams from the Australian Platypus Conservancy. The Conservancy is a non-profit environmental organisation that was set up in 1994 to conserve the platypus and its freshwater habitats. 

The Green Adelaide Podcast is your insider scoop on all things cool, green, and wild in metropolitan South Australia.

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 Communication Manager at Green Adelaide.

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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. 

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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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