Melbourne has lost it

[GunnyGene]

You can now send an email to a tree. And get an answer back. :roll:

The City of Melbourne, Australia has stumbled upon a novel way of wasting taxpayer money: email any one of the city’s 60,000 trees and they will email you back, as their thoughts are helpfully channelled through the minds of friendly, handsomely paid council employees.

As part of the preservation and planting project, each of the city’s trees was assigned a unique ID number and categorised. The city then turned that information into an interactive map so that residents could identify particular trees – and contact them.

“Some said we were wasting money, but the trees were always going to have individual ID numbers anyway. So it was only logical we’d assign the ID numbers to an email which connects these trees to the community,” says Melbourne city councillor, Arron Wood.

Unsurprisingly, the whole idea forms part of an ambition to alert the public to the dangers of climate change. “Whether or not we can retain a heritage park as it has been in the past is probably the wrong question. We’ve got to figure out how our Urban Forest is going to sustain itself in the face of ever-increasing extreme weather,” says Wood.

For Wood, that means getting Melburnians involved in the tree scape of their city – by getting to know the trees personally. “An unintended but positive consequence was that instead of reporting problems with trees, people began writing letters about how much they love individual trees in the city.

“The emails show Melburnians know and respect the importance of trees in reducing heat in our city and increasing Melbourne’s liveability.”

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/06/melbourne-invents-the-21st-century-equivalent-of-tree-hugging-email-a-tree/

 

[DA_TriggR4Ruger]

What if you needed firewood? One less email address?

 

[blume357]

I'm a tree hugger... but that only shows the city government and its employees have way too much money and time on their hands.

 

[Fountain E. Conner]

How do we get the numbers of the trees?

If everyone on this forum e-mailed a tree, maybe someone would recognize how "Woodenheaded" the idea is.

On the other hand... They might think we're encouraging their effort. I might try it to see if my e-mail is followed-up with a solicitation for a donation :wink: .

 

[GunnyGene]

How do we get the numbers of the trees?

If everyone on this forum e-mailed a tree, maybe someone would recognize how "Woodenheaded" the idea is.

On the other hand... They might think we're encouraging their effort. I might try it to see if my e-mail is followed-up with a solicitation for a donation :wink: .

Here ya go: http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/#about

 

[Fountain E. Conner]

How do we get the numbers of the trees?

If everyone on this forum e-mailed a tree, maybe someone would recognize how "Woodenheaded" the idea is.

On the other hand... They might think we're encouraging their effort. I might try it to see if my e-mail is followed-up with a solicitation for a donation :wink: .

Here ya go: http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/#about

I just knew someone would call me on this.

 

[GunnyGene]

How do we get the numbers of the trees?

If everyone on this forum e-mailed a tree, maybe someone would recognize how "Woodenheaded" the idea is.

On the other hand... They might think we're encouraging their effort. I might try it to see if my e-mail is followed-up with a solicitation for a donation :wink: .

Here ya go: http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/#about

I just knew someone would call me on this.

I sent an email from my 350 year old white oak to an oak down there, to see about maybe getting a date. No answer yet. :wink:

 

[Fountain E. Conner]

My tree is:

Platanus
London Plane
life expectancy : 6-10 years (>50% canopy)
tree ID : 1029246

I got a pop-up that I had been sent a reply. I sent my e-mail address for a reply, but doubt any live person will read it.

As a side note, over forty years ago I explored emigrating to Australia, but rejected the country for, among other things, their position on private ownership of firearms. As this country careens down the slippery slope of total government control of everything, it appears we are very close to Australia.

 

[Fountain E. Conner]

I did get a reply (automated, of course) which follows:

Should you wish to comment on the University Square development please click the link http://participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/projects/universitysquare/

I'm not going to pursue this further with Australia. I'm afraid any comments I offered would not be very charitable.

In this area we have "protected vermin", the Perdido Key Beach Mouse. I understand this is an idiot cousin of the common field mouse, which was isolated on the key and inbred to the point of political activism. In typical activist fashion, they have become politically powerful, and it is now illegal to further-attempt to exterminate this particular vermin.

We may be able extrapolate this analogy to beltway Washington, D.C.

 

[Colonialgirl]

Speaking of Vermin in Washington, DC; Please explain to me WHY our elected SERVANTS are referred to as "VIP's" and get all kinds of special treatment and services that ARE NOT available to us Hard working Tax payers.

 

[GunnyGene]

Speaking of Vermin in Washington, DC; Please explain to me WHY our elected SERVANTS are referred to as "VIP's" and get all kinds of special treatment and services that ARE NOT available to us Hard working Tax payers.

"Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die". :wink: