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“We dropped by the Growling Grass Frog wetlands creation project today. Another month or so and it should be complete. Growling Grass Frogs are a threatened species, so this habitat creation project by Merribek Council is important.”

Busy day on Sunday at @CAMerribek stall raising climate issues and engaged with Glenroy locals at the annual Glenroy Festival. Everything from Energy transition, transport emissions, no third runway, climate adaptation, to synthetic turf and Microplastics. Our Local Labor state MP and Greens Merribek Mayor both dropped in for a chat Climate Diary

Australian cities: National Growth Areas Alliance says city peri-urban growth area infrastructure underfunded and communities are under-serviced, fuelling a reliance on private vehicles as transportation. Long term federal funding needed for roads, train lines, footpaths and bikeways in growth areas. Increased vulnerability to flood and bushfire

My write up for @CAMerribek on Australia’s National Electric Vehicle Strategy: a timid first step to decarbonising transport in Australia.

Interesting research on wildfires and Indigenous cool burning practices in Australia pre-European colonisation, as we face increasing wildfires due to climate change.

"we conclude that Indigenous cultural burning practices undertaken around Thirlmere Lakes from about 10,000 years ago may have suppressed extreme wildfires."

via @theconversationau

You could read this Nature Climate abstract on 'Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems" published December 2022. OR.....
read a one sentence plain speak summary of this academic paper.... written by Marc Hudson