Category: Plants

A walk in the park? The park systems that help shape our cities, cultures, and civic identities

Over the holiday season I published this enlivening and yet grounding chat with Matthew Skjonsberg, Director of the Praxis Institute. He was visiting Adelaide from Switzerland late last year and I was lucky enough to get him in studio to speak about his knowledge, passions and visions for park systems around the world.

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Nature deprivation: the real consequences

Are you getting the best microbes on offer? What are microbes anyway and why should we care?

If you’ve ever heard of the term “microbiome” you probably relate it to gut health, but there’s so much more to it! It’s all around us, and in us, and affects our brains, immune systems, stress levels, and psychological state.

Join us for this podcast episode where we speak with Dr Jess Stanhope and Prof Phil Weinstein about how public health is effected by urban environments and the promising future for disease prevention and treatment in the reversal of global urban nature deprivation.

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Markets for nature. What’s the currency of biodiversity?

Nature is threatened, but it is also messy and complex. Ecologist try to untangle the mess of conservation, governments and industry. Small landowners are trying to help too. How do we work to save life on Earth?

How do we get the scale of investment required to restore our degraded land? Can we create markets for nature? Where does the money come from? And who are the buyers?

In this episode host Prof Andy Lowe Interim Director of the Environment Institute University of Adelaide, speaks with renowned ecologist Prof Hugh Possingham about the need to set aside 30% of every different kind of habitat for conservation in order to sustain the health of our global biodiversity and to establish biodiversity markets to drive these outcomes.

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