- An alliance for Western Australian soil.
In embracing the theme ‘Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities: Dialing Down Urban Heat using Healthy Soils’, Transition Town Vincent is hosting a World Soil Day event on December 5, 2025 in Leederville.
Guest speakers will explore the health and liveability impacts of urban heat and provide insights into what can and is being done to reduce urban heat by doing things such as restoring healthy soils and biodiversity, de-paving and creating cooler living spaces.
Attendees will then go on a short walking tour of a nature precinct where they will see a soil hub, community food forest and Black Cockatoo pocket forest (stage 1) and proposed stage 2 Black Cockatoo pocket forest, which is also a de-paving demonstration.
A workshop will follow where attendees will reimagine a healthy soils-related future by considering a from What Is to What If question. Following the event there will be chance to network while eating some baked goods from Miller + Baker who use regen wheat supplied by Regen farmers and Australians of the Year, Ian and Di Haggerty.
Guest speakers for the afternoon include Mayor Alison Xamon (City of Vincent), Dr George Crisp (Doctors for the Environment), Professor Lyn Abbott (UWA), Dr Grey Coupland (Murdoch University/Pockets Forests WA), Steve Meerwald (FASERA), Mark Taylor (Miller + Baker), Ciaran Stewart (Turf manager, Leederville Tennis Club) and Ian Kininmonth (Transition Town Vincent).