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Terras de Cascais: Connecting People and Nature Through Community Gardening

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“Giving new life to natural spaces and promoting organic urban culture” is the motto of Terras de Cascais. It’s a project working towards bringing people together, reviving the connection with nature, and growing fresh,...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Bohemian Learning for Students: Sussex Roots

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This group of students has decided to take matters – or shovels, to be precise – into their own hands. Students at the University of Sussex have established their own community garden, determined to...
Green Buildings

Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay: Sustainable Building Meets Greenery

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Gardens by the Bay: an award-winning green haven in the middle of Singapore. With its iconic architecture, innovative use of technologies, environmental sustainability, and horticultural displays, Singapore has established itself as one of our...
Greenery & Biodiversity

How to Finance Green Roofs

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Let’s be honest, greening your home is never cheap. It may pay off in the long run, but in the short run, gathering all necessary financial means may present many a challenge. There are...
Greenery & Biodiversity

The Psychological Effects of Greenery on Modern City Dwellers

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We may be modern individuals living in civilized cities, but we are still creatures of nature at heart. So, how does greenery play a part in our mental well-being? Why do we seem to...
Climate Adaptation

CityChanger Tony Matthews: With Passion for Cities and Climate Adaptation

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From working in urban and environmental planning, producing shows about cities, to researching and teaching, Tony Matthews has positively impacted the field of urban climate adaptation in many ways. What follows are his reflections,...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Urban Biodiversity and the EU Taxonomy

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It’s easy to forget we share our space in the city with other creatures. Either being small and almost invisible to the unobservant eye or being right there, planted in front of your front...
Green Buildings

Green Is the New Black: How to Get Started

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You want to start greening your city but don’t exactly know where to start or how to go about it? Well, lucky you! Below is a neat step-by-step guide to making your change-making path...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Useful Tools and Guides for Greening

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If our articles have lit the fire for greening in you, we suggest getting even more information and details here! Find and collect all the needed knowledge, information, and guidance in this list of...
Greenery & Biodiversity

The Challenge to Making Cities Greener

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The thing about greenery is there’s more to it than just planting a bunch of trees. Peeking behind the scenes, a lot of urban planning, designing, technical research, and policy writing goes into realising...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Greenery: Facts & Figures

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The basis for every city-changing venture is to do your research and to know your facts and data. For this very purpose, we have gathered the most important, surprising, or even uplifting ones in...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Micro-Gardening in Dakar: Fighting Food and Climate Insecurity

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In lands where proper growing soil is scarce, water supply is low, and food shortage is prevailing, cities need to resort to innovative means of obtaining the needed resources. The city of Dakar managed...
Green Buildings

Flora Robotica: The Future of Growing Your Own House?

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Let’s talk hypothetically – what if we had the ability to grow our own houses? Out of plants? No greenhouse gas emissions, no grey concrete, no building-material waste, no heat island effects. Wouldn’t it...
Greenery & Biodiversity

A Little Bit of Green Among the Grey: The Case for Greenery

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The United Nations’ article 'Cities and Pollution' states that cities use up to 78% of the world’s energy and produce more than 60% of greenhouse gas emissions, all while covering less than 2% of...
Greenery & Biodiversity

How to Include Greenery in Strategic Planning

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Everyone wants some sort of a green nook in their city. A place to relax, cool down and simply enjoy the fresh air. Perfectly fine, but the problem occurs when cities are too dense,...
Greenery & Biodiversity

Urban Gardening in Bustling Cities

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As the desire for eating healthy, fresh, organic and home-grown produce grows, naturally so does the desire for gardening. But where to garden when you live in a densely populated city? Urban gardens offer...
Greenery & Biodiversity

EU Projects Working Towards Greener Cities

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Green is the new black; or rather, ‘greenzoning’ is the new ‘grayzoning’. These EU projects are the ones painting the cities green, striving to protect the (urban) biodiversity, or focusing on social inclusion by...
Greenery & Biodiversity

The Case for Green Roofs

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How to incorporate greenery into urban spaces? Where to put green spaces in a densely populated area? Putting them on a roof is a way to go! The benefits of green roofs are being...
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