Recently Bush-FIRES ACROSS AUSTRALIA
with our MAJOR WILDLIFE and PLANT LIFE loss, now requires the best practice planning ever seen in Australia History ( for those who need it download an App called "Fires Near you" (its from the NSW RFS)
Not to win the battles in the future as these tragic events will become the new norm.
The Biggest Challenge for AUSTRALIANS, is whether we can work together as one, under one management form, developing a number of smaller pieces working in their individual area of expertise, only coming together by the availability of transport and having all the necessary resources required- and having initiated a per-plan.
Recently a phone interview on the ABC RADIO – from Kim Landers on Amto Sussan Ley our Federal Environment Minister is said to say up to 30% of the mid-North coast koalas in NSW have been killed, because of 30% of Koala Habitat have been destroy, Radio interview below
NSW Government announces koala reserves to conserve declining population
And by our Premier NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said, and I Quote "We know that there are around 36,000 koalas left in the state, but we don't know that for sure" (May 6th 2018) as they announce$45 million would go towards protecting the state's drastically dwindling koala population and towards studying why their numbers continued to decline.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-06/new-parks-for-koalas-to-breed-to-save-iconic-species-in-nsw/9732854
Which is good in one part, and sad the other when fire itself can easier destroy the reserves in one hit!
Time is of the essences, we have enough studies, enough reports, enough ecologist studies and enough academics reports and papers, "It's Time for Action", Having a reserves mention earlier only set up those koalas- with a noose around their neck- as its going to take-"HUMAN INTERVENTION" by setting up halfway houses, to protect larger koala numbers before fires attack, for 45 million, we could comfortable house up to 2,000 or 3000 koalas. Protect them in way to remove them from harm's way, to be replace back if the trees aren't too damage, or fine alternate habitat.
This halfway house will also act as- a research facility- assess each and every one of those koalas, the best alternate habitat, for the future. This type of infrastructure needs to be close to the environment, and be large in terms of land require, and specialise in one form of practices, no other distraction of construction close by. The general environment needs to feel relax and inviting.
This type of research, and work will build confidence and experience into a young staff and volunteers and turn them into professionals. Specially under one Management, who has the experience- in koala captivity management.
It's undeniable that, in the future, architecture will lead the way. It's a critical understanding the pieces of the puzzle, which infrastructure is developed first and second as this save time in the long run.
- 1. Architecture adds value to land, and after government support, commercial aspect will replace government intervention, something similar to the development infrastructure like the 2000 Olympics.
- 2. The value of a property is measured by access to water, electricity, fencing, shops, transport, hospitals, schools, and local support structures, such as police.
- 3. The quality of a build must meet the various demands of contemporary and intense weather patterns.
- 4. Architecture needs to sit cohesively within a larger framework. I think of it like a tree, where branches are like individual rooms that support the trunk. The same could be said about a new form of housing, where the home of the future- collects its own resources but is connected to a larger part of the surrounding community.
- 5. Building infrastructure whether a home or a business, collects its own water and energy requires on an individual bases, but also has the potential to allocate its own resources out into the community- if the individual establishment has an excess of water or electricity to give, creating an income for that establishment.
- Which means, if a establishment has an excesses of water to give- as they are on the southern end of the community, and a fire has the potential to be out of control, on the Northern end, they and others can allocate there water reserves to the affect area.
There are three main layers of redevelopment for the cities of the future. Together, they will enable society to get the best of the riches that we enjoy today.
To come extent, the cities of the future will be developed by taking a more formal approach in the Macro scheme of things but allowing inform approaches on the Micro. These future cities will be designed to promote a certain type of behaviour – this behaviour is where society has control over such things as bushfires, water availability, solar power, and their own community.
Governments can formulate the bigger picture, but Everything between this is informal, which balances out the framework by allowing for more flexibility and creativity in decision-making. This is what set us humans apart from the natural world while still remaining an integral part of it.
As an example, the cars and trains of the future will still have a number of options in terms of moveability, but they may become the third or fourth transportation option, rather than the first. This is because we allow the first two kingdoms – plant and animals – to dominate our environment.
How do we do this? Via the three critical layers of architectural design and planning.
- 1.Underground – effective utilization of the ground below.
- 2.Ground level – efficient management of ground space, embracing a formulaic approach to allow informal behaviour to happen in a positive light. Where the plant and animal kingdom thrive in.
- 3.Air Space – optimizing our ability to become upwardly mobile. Current waste could be addressed while also maintaining growth in the building and housing trade.
Concurrently, the transport framework of the future needs to be developed in line with these layers to ensure consistency.
Connecting to our ecosystem and writing the stories of the future
There are layers to the way the earth itself evolves, much like our own evolution alongside the development of the planet.
To me, it makes sense that the geological formation of the earth, with its different layers, has occurred in layers of rock crushed over millions of years. This has created different types of soils.
Evolution tells us a story. It is up to us to tell that story and, in some cases, repeat it. Having that balance of repeating and creating is of significant importance going into the future. It connects us to our surroundings and to each other. We have the opportunity to explain this process in simple terms to all ages. This is the time to develop more stories – to author our own future and prevent ongoing damage to our native habitat, wildlife, and ourselves.
What's happening right NOW! Is due to our involvement- our intervention on the environment that was here first, if anything all we can do now, is manage it the best we can, but we need an eye of the future, where we set up cities and towns, where our infrastructure is protected underground, to keep as hardwired in, to stay connected with a secondary option – in the air and outer space. We will require two forms on infrastructure- Society needs a back-up plan, diversify our community options, like spread one city resources, maintain many income streams, so while one sector of the community encounter hardship, we have the resources to support them in difficult times.
- 1. This is what's needed, in the koala industry
- 2. This what's needed, in the community the different ways in which to live
- 3. And our long term vision, is to step away and building further away from- already living infrastructure, such as National Parks, Agricultural with fertile enrich soil, under-water and water dames.
Right now, we are simply not working smart enough to create more interesting stories of who we are and of our ecosystem connection. If we did, we would have developed far different behaviour towards the way we build our social fabric. Our fauna and flora demand the spotlight, and our society must work in away where the short term, it looks destructive, (taking down or removing vegetation but in the long term, after such infrastructure such as water storage is in place, our native fauna and flora dominates our environment, where water supply can be apply at the appropriate time.
This is where infrastructure that supports the wildlife, like the layers of our own geology, is critical. The society of the future will recognize our role in creating an environment that sees us adapt to our surroundings while being the professional caretakers of the spaces around us. We will create a system that supports the families of the future on a micro level, while at the same time supporting our environment on macro level.
One of the stories that society could work on is to articulate the origins of mankind, who first decided move from a nomadic lifestyle to life in a fixed position. The modern way of living is out of our homes, where we have the resources to survive but we see everything through the lens of our cultural understanding of the terms 'fixed' and 'nomadic'. And as society places a different story to these two terms, having certain amount of both native and exotic wildlife living among us would let us experience the nomadic lifestyle as the seasons change year by year.
Society may live in a fix position, but our resources such a electricity and water can still be nomadic, combine those factors with our other national resources, such as the plant and animal kingdom, and society will slowly get it- in what it takes be holistic.
So, we have a horizontal movement combined with a vertical structure that supports that movement. The vertical set-up is formed by layers, much like the earth's geological formation with the development of different types of soils. Our physical and mental makeup is a bit like layers of soil – different layers of consciousness that interconnect like nature. And this influences our behaviour.
Blogs 26 to 33 under Big or Best, explain the koala industry horizontal and vertical movements, this type of measure can also be place in society as well,
https://www.koalaretreat.com/index.php/koala-retreat-blog/blog-big-or-best-can-we-do-both/26-1.html
This behaviour has, unfortunately, advantages and disadvantages. Both have crept into the way we support our koalas, mirroring society's movements from a nomadic lifestyle to a fixed position.
This has led us to become too comfortable with the way things are in the koala industry – and I have already seen the effects of this in terms of housing koalas. In the zoological community, we haven't nailed it. In fact, I think we've become too comfortable; to the point that we are reversing koala behaviour instead of advancing it. We need to act now! But our own hierarchy in our zoological industry and also in the higher end of the conservation industry, who at the top end join forces to pat each other on the back, are our biggest hurdles and obstacles as they are a-part of my industry, but they are the most disconnect people of all! That disconnect- isn't entirely THEIR FAULT, it's the system/culture they created over the last 220 years, it's a fix mentality, keeps them disconnected, when the answers they seek surround them all the time, in a nomadic way, its like that information moves in waves, going from a causal get together, to a general meeting to an angry intense form of negotiation. Its weather the higher management "ego" will allow them to except a new direction, to step outside the glass box they and their culture created. But they only act if the funds are available – but again it still requires someone strong to act, to select a path and see it through.
Interestingly, all of the answers to society's questions are right here in front of us – it's whether we are smart enough to look at what's in front of us to define the answers of tomorrow. In some cases, this means slowing down or, at the very least, creating a system of balance between work and home life where home is extended enough to let us experience the world at a microscopic level. I feel that life has escalated and we're now moving too fast – so fast that we've become disconnected. And this is what has happened with the koala industry, the fires we are in! which is itself a microcosm- of the disconnect society is facing right now.
Our home estates of the future should develop within own vertical and horizontal layers of geological formation, aligning with the trees and our native environment to deliver positive support to our wildlife.
I'm not trying to solve everything. But to solve the koala issue we do need to look at how our future cities and communities will look. The vision and planning I've developed is an attempt to create a prototype concept of the platform of the future – it's a piece of a much larger puzzle where everyday people can provide a different perspective to our leaders of today.
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