How Serious about climate change is the City of Unley?
After moving a motion of climate significance at our January Council meeting, I find myself asking how serious about climate change is the City of Unley? The current Council has been focused heavily on how to keep and/or improve our tree canopy cover. To lift our tree...A Call To Action: Protecting Adelaide’s Tree Canopy
Last month, we debated and decided to endorse in principle “A Call to Action”. This was by way of a Motion on Notice by Cr Bonham. A decision by the way that was unanimous. “A Call to Action” is a report prepared on behalf of the Conservation Council of South...Tree Canopy Can Increase. Thanks to LiDAR surveying we know it is.
Unley’s tree strategy is working. We have demonstrated that tree canopy can increase. Likewise, (and leading the way) that the loss of tree canopy can be reversed. Council was briefed this week on the change in canopy cover over the last three years. The result is a...Time to stop hedging our bets. Unley’s hedges an Achilles heel.
The hedges of Unley are one of those assets that make us who we are. A green city. They are a delightful part of our landscape. As is often the case though, this strength is also an Achilles heel. We, unfortunately, have a problem with our hedges. The hedges forming...
Cr Don Palmer
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