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Improving lives through Sustainable Design
Green Sky Thinking Week 2018, is an annual event organised by Open City to spread best practice for sustainability in the built environment. This year’s theme was ‘People First’, with a task of exploring sustainable design from the human perspective. This seemed a great opportunity to talk about Clapham Park, a major regeneration project that has been […]
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Interesting thoughts as ever @BENetworking. Encouraging to hear Sustainability being at the heart of @marjonuni estates future. #lowcarbon #HealthandWellbeing https://t.co/TLVpEhIOqw
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Two Issues for 2019: social value and biodiversity net gains
Greengage were asked to provide an article for GRESB that discussed some of the key trends and expectations for sustainable real estate assets in 2019. Ensuring that assets are sustainable has become increasingly more important for investors and asset owners. Within the article, Greengage explored the challenges that social value presents to both investors and […]
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Green Infrastructure Design Training Course
Our Head of Ecology, Morgan Taylor is running a Green Infrastructure Design training course with Place Services (part of Essex County Council). The course will look at the design and application of green infrastructure and is aimed at architects, landscape architects, ecologists and environmental professionals. The first part of the session will cover the theory […]
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Greengage at Healthy City Design
Using active design principles to create healthier communities: theory and practice Greengage Associates Chris Burgess and Rob Miller along with Rob Holt of Sport England presented at the 2018 Healthy City Design conference. They spoke about ‘Using active design principles to create healthier communities’ They presented and explained how active design principles were incorporated into […]
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If you want to know about #greeninfrastructure come and listen to Morgan Taylor for insights to #biodiversity #climateresilience https://t.co/O2mn38SHR6
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Biodiversity Net Gain
The concept of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) has gained increasing traction in the past couple of years as more people acknowledge the wide-ranging benefits that nature provides society. Most notably, the idea was included in the 25 Year Environment Plan and embedded within NPPF 2.0 last summer; moves that spell a likely sea change in […]
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Looking forward to presenting our thoughts on #GreenInfrastructure at @EUGICevents. With the rapid growth in concepts such as #BiodiversityNetGain, #EcosystemServices and #NaturalCapital this promises to be a great event.
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Looking forward to Manchester #Greensummit on Monday - lots of interesting speakers @UKGBC @ManCityCouncil #greeninfrastructure #climateready #SustainableDevelopment
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The need for jobs has over ridden concerns on climate change ! Really ?? UK’s first deep coal mine in over 30 years given go-ahead in Cumbria https://t.co/4svZ6B49ll
