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The Foundations of Climate Change Inquiry
Jason King of Landscape+ Urbanism has written a great review and references for understanding the climate change fundamentals and I will be diving into this myself, although written for North American...
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Climate Positive Design – Becoming CO2+
I am on admission to understand and act on becoming “carbon positive” – I believe it is the way landscape architects can become truly relevant and effective. A series of recent posts by...
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Further down the IPCC CO2 hole? Or what else can we do now?
Jason King of landscape+urbanism has posted another insightful and topical examination of the implication of the latest IPCC report on global warming and particularly what is means as a landscape...
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On Advocacy: A Landscape Architects Submission on transforming the world!
Recently I was asked to write a short piece for ProLandscaper Africa on what can the landscape profession do to make difference on environmental and social issues, should we shrink back in our shells...
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A New Language For Carbon – CO2 is not the Enemy !
While searching for some information on the Cradle To Cradle certification I came across this is article by William McDonough in Nature and reviewed in Scientific American and summarised on his...
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On the value(s) of gardeners
Having been involved over the last 10 days in a green industry and City of Cape Town consultation on “Alternatives for watering of gardens and landscapes” as a response to the water crisis in Cape...
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Design and the Future of Landscape Architecture
If landscape architects want to remake the world, we can start by remaking our discipline. A thought provoking critique of the role Landscape Architects actually play in society versus what they...
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While many of us landscape architects and the other technologists affiliated to our profusion believe that the discipline of landscape architecture holds the key to improving man’s poor record of...
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I have for many years admired the gardens and landscapes of Chilean Landscape Architect, Juan Grim. This has largely been from a few images in magazines and books, so I was very pleased this morning...
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New Tool for climate positive Landscape Architecture design
Jared Green has written a review for The Dirt of a new tool for assessing the climate footprint of landscape projects. The tool is free and quite easy to use, but requires soem modification to apply...
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