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Australian botanical artist Sharon Field is waging a personal protest against global warming through her project "3000

Sharon’s ink and watercolour-on-paper scroll is a massive undertaking, involving a commitment to paint small segments of nature each day until the year 2030. That will take 3000 days.

The artwork connects the point at which, towards the end of 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change told the world it needed to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, and the cut-off date for action.

Canberra is known as an affluent city, but as the cost of living bites, more and more Canberrans are going hungry each day. That’s where HelpingACT, led by retired biochemist and former Multicultural Volunteer of the Year, Mohammed Ali, comes in.

For the last five years, the charity has provided food security to vulnerable Canberrans including refugees and asylum seekers, homeless people, international students, and anyone else in need.

How can public art enrich the liveability of a community? We speak to Ginninderry’s Arts & Cultural

We all know the importance of reducing our ecological footprint – but how can we, as individuals, create a more sustainable life?

We talk to Canberra Environment Centre Executive Director Fiona Veikkanen about the practical, small steps we can take to create a more sustainable future.

It’s often said that you can’t be what you can’t see – it’s a sentiment that’s especially true in the construction industry. 2024 ACT Australian of the Year Joanne Farrell is working to change that –  the founder of not-for-profit program Build Like a Girl facilitating opportunities for women in construction.

Located in the gallery space of the historic Strathnairn Arts Homestead, Café Stepping Stone founders Vanessa Brettel and Hannah Costello are doing more than serving fantastic vegetarian food. Their business model employs migrant and refugee women to give them hospitality experience, learn and improve their English and obtain a Certificate III in commercial cookery or hospitality to advance their skills further.

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Could your money help save the world? Dave Rae, Financial Advisor at Ethinvest, believes it can. He talks us through why it’s important to invest ethically and how we can go about it, from identifying what issues are important to you to changing your super fund investments and making informed decisions on our everyday purchases.

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New York’s famous High Line Park (which used to be a train line) and London’s Tate Modern (formerly Bankside Power Station) are great global examples of adaptive reuse projects – an approach that breathes new life into empty or unused structures and places. Stuart Harrison, Architect and Good Design Advocate, talks about the key considerations and examples of adaptive reuse both globally and locally.

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Walkability, green spaces, access to nature. These are some of the elements that, if incorporated into our community, can enhance our wellbeing. Imogen Featherstone, Planning Development Manager and Tulitha King, Community Development Manager from Ginninderry, talk about how this development has created the infrastructure that allows for greater community interactivity and events.

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While Australia is home to some of the world’s most dangerous snake species, they play a vital role in maintaining our delicate ecosystem. Dr Gavin Smith, Associate Professor in Sociology, despite hailing from Scotland, has gained a local reputation as being a ‘snake whisperer’.  Through his research on the Eastern Brown snake, he hopes to help humans and snakes to coexist better.

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