As the Bushfire season approaches, many of us are still deeply affected by the 2019 / 2020 catastrophic events and are still moving through the recovery process.  Life moves on and people get busy and preoccupied and when it’s not ‘in your face’ it’s often forgotten or ‘not real’.  Because this season looks more ‘favourable’ (though who can tell …..)  this is a timely reminder that we must not become complacent in taking action towards a new way of thinking and approaching Bushfire and Climate Change because the science says the issues are not going away without urgent action. 

We need to change our behaviours and policies at a personal, local and National level.  It’s hard for many people to know where to start with designing, renovating, adapting and planting our gardens and landscapes and given our changed climate we need to educate ourselves on a whole new way of responding to climate, landscape and lifestyle.