Green Adelaide

Councils across the state can now apply for funding up to $200,000 to help plant more trees to keep local streets and open spaces green and cool, with the opening of a third round of the Greener Neighbourhoods grants program to coincide with National Tree Day today.

A new bold project to bring platypus back to the River Torrens has been launched by the Marshall Liberal Government, as part of Adelaide’s push to become a National Park City.

One of Adelaide’s last remaining coastal freshwater and estuarine lagoon systems will form part of a new conservation park at Aldinga with the Marshall Liberal Government stepping in to protect the area from potential housing development.

South Australia is making a historic push to have Adelaide become the world’s second National Park City, a move which coincides with World Environment Day today.

Forty-seven community organisations, schools and volunteer groups across the Adelaide metropolitan area have shared in $1 million of funding from the Green Adelaide Grassroots Grants program.

Community organisations and volunteers in the metropolitan area can now apply for a share of $1 million from Green Adelaide’s Grassroots Grants program to support local projects.

The inaugural members of Green Adelaide have been appointed to lead an innovative new metropolitan landscape board to transform Adelaide into a world-leading, sustainable, green and climate resilient city.