Sidonie Carpenter, Vice-President of Green Roofs for Healthy Australian Cities, will soon be available for interviews and talks on green roof developments in North America that are relevant to Australia’s nascent green roof industry.
Sidonie is in North America for two months, on a study fellowship awarded by the Melbourne-based International Specialised Skills Institute, funded by the Pratt Foundation, and supported by Brisbane Architect, Geoffrey Pie, Landscape Logic, Multiplex Australia, Mirvac Australia, The Plant Specialists and landscape architect Richard Jones.
She runs her own Brisbane-based business, Sidonie Carpenter Landscape Design and Horticulture. Some of Sidonie’s green roof reportage from North America so far is on her blogsite.
Sidonie studied for an arts degree at the University of Queensland (majoring in architecture and town planning). She also holds a graduate diploma in landscape architecture from Queensland University of Technology.
She is a member of the Australian Institute of Landscape Design and Managers.
While in North America visiting leading green roof cities of Canada and the United States, Sidonie is attending (April 29 to May 2) the annual Green Roof conference of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities-North America in Minneapolis, where she will attend two, one-day courses on green roof design and construction.
She will represent Australia at a meeting of the World Green Roof Infrastructure Network (WGRIN) in Minneapolis on 30 April. This newly-formed organisation (2006) now has 15 national members in Europe, North America and Australasia. It expects to help bring green roof and green wall climate change responses to many other areas, especially to Asia.
For further information about interviews and talks when Sidonie returns contact: Geoff Wilson, President, Green Roofs for Healthy Australian Cities. PO Box 5151, Mt Gravatt East, Queensland 4121 – Phone 07 3411 4524 or 0412 622 779. Email: Geoff-AT-nettworx.info
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Posted by Frayne Dyke-Walker on September 20, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Thanks Sidonie – Wonderful talk at the AILDM Seminar – have spent the rest of the week Googling as many of the projects you mentioned as I managed to scribble down – Inspirational!!!