Healthy Eating
Do you want to make a difference with climate change? Do you want to be healthier and live longer? All you have to do is eat less meat and your carbon footprint drops like a stone, and you get fitter and healthier to boot. I used to detest vegetarian food,…
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The Future of UK Green Space Design
20 years ago, (2001), I believed I was a commercially aware Landscape Architect, having then 13 years working for top house builders, but ‘you don’t know what you don’t know!’ Establishing the OASIS Landscape Management company (2011) means, I now have to pay for the maintenance work myself, which was…
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Developers have a chance to Take a Stand for Building Better Biodiverse Futures
Who do you think has greener credentials - farmers or developers. Seems obvious, but like so many things, the truth can be surprising. My last family home was a new developer’s house, and it had been recycled from a disused intensive pig farm, with an acre of concrete yard and…
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Ancient and Veteran Trees
As well as providing unique and irreplaceable habitats ancient and veteran trees can pose significant constraints, when it comes to potential site development, and consequently should be identified at the earliest possible opportunity. The assessment process for Ancient and Veteran trees needs to acknowledge their unique key characteristics such as:…
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Don’t Believe the Lies About Climate Change
Lies - you ask? What lies? That Climate Change exists? No...that is not a lie, it most certainly does exist, and the science is as clear as it was for the need for a vaccine for the pandemic. There is no doubt it is happening and faster than we are…
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Get Wild about Play Design
Natural Play & Wild Play - play area schemes not only look better, enhance play value & inspire imagination, but they cost £30K less to build than traditional "Local Equipped Areas of Play." If, that is, they're designed to accord with Play England’s/ Scotland's national guidance “Design for Play” (2008),…
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Value Innovation
'Value Innovation' means better, faster & lower cost designs: Is your consultant value innovating? I believed I was a commercially aware Landscape Architect; after 30 years working for top house builders, but ‘you don’t know what you don’t know!’ Establishing OASIS Ltd - a Landscape Management co. (2010) means, I…
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April Chill Greta’s Bain
Is the April Chill Greta's Bain? It would be easy to think the contrast of this year's Pacific Oceanic La Nina induced April Chill would be a sign that global warming wasn't such a threat as Greta is making us believe, but you'd be wrong: very wrong, though the late…
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Beware the Equinox Siberian Tiger
Beware the equinox Siberian Tiger - it bites! I've kept a little quiet on the weather - it's been too benign. However, signs are gathering & near enough in range to share a wary warning with you. After a brief cold snap on Tuesday next week, it warms up, spring…
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