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"But if (as these overpaid Olympics planners and marketing ‘experts’ are insisting) Brisbane ‘needs’ to develop a straightforward, easily-summarised narrative about what makes us special and different from a thousand other cities around the world, we should start by recognising that we are already Australia’s greenest major city. This is a key strength we could build upon as the world’s eyes turn towards us."

h/t Ash on Mastodon

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if we start advertising that fact, how are developers supposed to knock it all down for more housing estates?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is, unfortunately, no longer any thing to joke about

Brisbane: We have Skyscrapers so we must be just like New York!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

^Psst, you messed up the URL. There should be no space between the closing square bracket and the opening bracket.^

Anyway, it's a good article, thanks for sharing. Here's what I think is the most interesting bit.

Despite numerous recent environmental vandalisms, you can still find koalas and even echidna within 5 or 6 kilometres of our city centre. If we added denser native vegetation to urban parks, and slowed down cars in certain areas, we could feasibly return many other charismatic species like potaroos, bandicoots and goannas to the inner-city. Maybe by planting more eucalypts along Enoggera Creek, perhaps one day we could even connect the koalas in Alderley’s Banks Street Reserve right through to Barrambin?

The river – our biggest wildlife corridor – is also part of this story. Dolphins are regularly spotted cruising past the CBD, and Maiwar’s periodic bioluminescence is a magical spectacle (which, sadly, many locals don’t even know about due to excessive riverfront light pollution). If we focus on revegetating upstream creek banks and preventing construction site sediment run-off, we could have a river that’s clean enough to swim in by 2032 (presumably with a couple enclosures to keep the bull sharks out).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@Zagorath "Psst, you messed up the URL"

thanks, fixed :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

AGREE they are terrible.

'Brisbane, it's also a giant Real Life Footy Show."

There, that's better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I thought Adelaide was the forest city.