Urban greeners' resource hub

This “How-to” guide for climate ready street tree trials provides an easy-to-follow, step-by-step plan to designing and implementing a scientifically rigorous trial of street tree species in an urban context.

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Engaging the community is the biggest challenge that councils face in urban greening. This is the ultimate community kit to help with that. Includes: research; free customisable ad kit including posters, social media posts and short videos that can be customised to tell your residents why urban greening improves their lives.

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Cool Streets© combines scientific research and public engagement, working with local communities to implement effective street tree plantings that provide shade in heat-affected urban areas and reduce CO2 emissions. Cools Streets© grew from Dr Libby Gallagher’s research into the potential of streets to tackle climate change. Libby’s research found that a few simple changes to a street design could reduce CO2 emissions, cool neighbourhoods and reduce electricity bills for residents. Cool Streets© provides a practical way for people to take action. Residents, community groups, schools, councils, housing corporations and developers can get involved and achieve environmental, economic and social benefits for their local area.

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Plants and trees. They can make a development amazing, but it’s not as easy as just designing them in. All stakeholders need to be brought along on the journey. This guide explores five developments which use green space in a big way, then outlines the stories and narratives used to get various stakeholders across the line.

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A summary of some of the early research and scoping supporting the development of the urban greening strategy for metro Adelaide.

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This discussion guide explores the working relationship between green space practitioners and engineers, including barriers to collaboration between these two groups, and ways they can be overcome.

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Queensland Health has developed the shade tree planting guidance resources to support state agency, local councils, developers and industry partners use an evidence informed approach to optimise shade provision and UVR protection along footpaths. The resources - including key messages, social media assets and content for EDMs - aim to optimise the planning and planting of street trees along footpaths to maximise shade provision and protection from UV exposure.

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Want to motivate Aussies to green their private property? This report shows you how. Take a deep dive into different population segments, tap into their needs, and overcome their pain points to get Aussie's greening their homes and gardens.

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This report shines a spotlight on community engagement, education and behaviour change programs to support councils and other practitioners in making informed decisions about delivering, adopting and expanding their urban greening programs.

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More than 100 Indigenous contributors have created Australia’s first guidelines on how to best strengthen and share Indigenous knowledge in land and sea management.

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Have you ever walked past empty, sad-looking patches of your neighbourhood and thought to yourself: "imagine if that concrete patch was full of plants and trees, it would be a great place to hang out"? This ten-step guide helps communities turn their grey spaces green. In partnership with The Neighbourhood Project.

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This communications toolkit will help increase the community’s awareness of, and support for, the urban forest. Included is a narrative guide, a statistics deck and social media tiles to provide you with consistent messaging, and interesting and engaging education content that can be tailored for local audiences.

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