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Tag: Environmentalism

  • ‘Ongoing cannibalisation’: Councillors grill govt over park land school development

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    Councillor Keiran Snape asked the government officials whether the pitch – that the Adelaide City Council should relinquish a parcel of Nellie Raminyemmerin Frome Park to allow the development of another Adelaide Botanic High School building – tainted a “recent win” which saved several Frome Road trees. “Isn’t there a risk that sours the earlier…

  • We want an all-electric, easily accessible, green city: survey

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    The results of the council’s two-month consultation process on its next climate action plan were delivered to an Adelaide City Council committee meeting last night by City of Adelaide associate director of park lands, policy and sustainability, Sarah Gilmour, and principal climate change advisor, Andrea Bassett. Six themes emerged from the online survey, conducted from…

  • Adelaide City Council’s $47k in carbon offset bill

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    The council spent $47,450 in the 2020-21 financial year on carbon offsets, removing roughly 47,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through a wind farm in India and protection and regeneration of rainforests in Queensland and Cambodia. In 2016, our sister publication InDaily reported the council coughed up $25,809 in 2013-14 and 2014-15 to offset…

  • Driver’s Month may come with a side of greenwashing

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    Councillor Jessy Khera tells CityMag the idea of promoting electric vehicles during Driver’s Month came to him after the Adelaide city council supported his contentious motion back in August. “I did speak to the administration and the Lord Mayor [after] and she was very keen on the idea, and I said, ‘Look, we should also…

  • Generation Z is coming for city council: Doha Khan on continuing the fight

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    “I encountered racism while running for city council,” Doha Khan says, with the sun setting behind her, haloing her headscarf. “I got other candidates not really taking me seriously, or not negotiating with me as if I were a serious candidate, quite a bit. “It’s just about kind of showing them that you can do…

  • Dance: The natural evolution of communication

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    Habitus is the first work in The Nature Series, Garry Stewart’s exploration of ecosystem processes, rhythms in nature and climate change, that will eventually include a number of stage and installation projects. HABITUS Presented by Australian Dance Theatre and Adelaide Festival Centre in association with the Adelaide Festival of Arts.  The high concept piece launches…