8 Things to consider before you install renewables
Category: Climate change and gardening
Install Your Own Green Roof
Maddy Harland describes how to convert a pitch and tar flat roof into a green roof: a beautiful and enduring paradise for birds and bees -click the title for the full article.
Old School Gardener
With the recent release of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, climate change has been a familiar topic in the news and media. More recently new publications have explicitly linked climate change to food security and they show that there is much to be done by governments, big business and the public sector, if our food and agricultural systems are to be resilient to predicted changes in the climate.
A new report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Advancing Global Food Security in the Face of Weather Volatility and Climate Change, which builds on the IPCC report, explains how climate change will undermine efforts to tackle hunger, limiting food production and putting food supplies at risk. Higher temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns and more frequent and severe natural disasters could reduce food production growth by 2% each decade for the rest of this century. But, the report…
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Vertical gardening and planting seems to be taking off. If it isn’t home-made planters for herbs and the like then its mega green walls in public places. Here are a few of the latest examples I’ve come across.
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- Edible wall at Atlanta Botanical Garden
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- Second highest green wall- Colombia
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- Steel and greenery
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- Mixed verti gardening
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- A green screen to help with temperature control
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- All walls can be green
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- You can even compost vertically- here’s a design for a wormery!
Old School Gardener
UEA research reveals four new man-made gases in the atmosphere
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