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07/02/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/01/planting-trees-cities-cut-deaths-summer-heat-study
Helps reduce pollution, reduce hot summer temperatures, improve appearance of every street - the list goes on!!

European research finds that increasing urban tree coverage to 30% can lower temperatures by 0.4C

06/08/2021

Article of interest in 'The Times Newspaper' https://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/net-zero-economy-business-changes-deloitte/ towards a Zero Carbon World.

12/11/2020

Link from 'Food Cardiff' - can Urban areas grow 15% of UK Food?

Growing fruit and vegetables in just 10 per cent of a city’s gardens and other urban green spaces could provide 15 per cent of the local population with their ‘five a day’, according to new research.

07/11/2020

Organic Structure that is Water Capture piece (via condensation) of engineering?
Ref: Goods Home Design

The need for fresh water has pushed humans into exploring new and innovative techniques. For thousands of years, in regions where water is scarce, sometimes using air wells, people have harvested water from the rain, fog or even dew. In Ethiopia, we can witness an upgrade to the age-old technique. W...

21/04/2020

Thank you Sir Attemborough!!

Evidence shows that pollution may be temporarily dropping, but that can’t be said for stress levels. For children and adults alike, ...

06/02/2020

Detox the cities - lets get more billions of Moss Cultures active in every city and town across the planet! Less pollution and less Carbon!!

Researchers have developed a “living concrete” that grows moss, lichens and fungi that could turn city buildings into giant air purifiers Spanish researchers have developed a porous, acidic concrete that acts almost like soil for moss, lichen, fungi and other drought-tolerant vegetation. They ar...

04/02/2020

Localisation to reduce emissions!

Many people are switching to veganism to help the environment - but others are pushing for an alternative eco-diet.

27/01/2020

Well done to CRG Cardiff Rivers Group for massive haul of rubbish collection and river clean up at St Mellons!! A few local families got in on the act too!!

Explore this photo album by Cardiff Rivers Group on Flickr!

06/01/2020

End of the civilisation - due to lack of changing economic system?

If you sense that the future looks bleak, that there is little chance that this whole mess will end in joy and good humor, that there is a tiny chance that w...