In Conversation – Climate readiness to support our gardens to thrive! Join Professor Michelle Waycott, Chief Botanist, and Dr Leonie Scriven, Deputy Director Living Collections, from the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, for Adelaide Climate Action Week.

During this insightful conversation, Michelle and Leonie will explore how to ensure the plants in our urban and peri-urban landscapes can survive the variable climate conditions of the future.

Don’t miss this special opportunity to learn from two leading experts and gain a better understanding of how to make your gardens, botanic gardens and bushlands more climate ready.

This talk is ideal for avid gardeners, landscape professionals, students, and anyone interested in climate-resilient gardens.

Bring your questions, as there will be designated time at the end of this talk.

Climate change and disasters place disproportionate pressures on women, who often shoulder increased caring responsibilities while playing leading roles in community recovery and resilience. Despite this, women remain underrepresented in climate, disaster and energy transition decision-making.

This discussion will enable a mixed audience of experts, advisers to government and those interested in climate resilience and/or gender equity to examine the intersections of gender, care, and the renewable energy transition — helping identify risks, opportunities and practical policy solutions that:

Strengthen Communities: Build resilience across regional and metropolitan South Australia

Improve Equity: Address underrepresentation in climate and energy decision making

Maximise Benefits: Unlock the social and economic potential of climate action in SA

A 90 minute workshop on one possible model to build housing collectives that focus on retrofitting housing for the climate crisis, while also contributing to the decommodification of housing for public good.

The goal of Retrofit and Decommodify (RAD) housing is to collectively acquire, retrofit, and decommodify existing suburban housing so that we, and others, can live in resilient and affordable housing.

The RAD housing project offers one small way to contribute to prefiguring better futures by providing opportunities to live collectively in ways that help us to practice commoning and act in solidarity with more radical movements for change.

The RAD housing members are currently visiting from Naarm, and keen to take this opportunity to transfer some of their learnings to the community here, to aid in similar and related efforts.