Green Urbanist - Placemaking in the Climate Crisis

This episode is a conversation with Helen Meech, Executive Director of the UK-based nonprofit The Climate Coalition. We talk about: 

• How they are bringing climate action to millions of people through 'The Great Big Green Week'.
• The importance of community-led projects.
• How local climate events can lead to much bigger change. 

Links:

The Climate Coalition

The Great Big Green Week

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With GatherMap you can create beautiful, interactive maps for public engagement and crowdsourcing data with maps. 

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Everyone seems to love vegetated buildings like 'Bosco Verticale' in Milan (pictured). So, why isn't this a standard building approach for new buildings? Why are there still so few of them?

In this episode I go under the surface and explain three reasons why vertical forest buildings are not commonplace – and why that might not be a bad thing.

Learn more about Urban Wilding Hub: https://urbanwildinghub.com/

Sources:

Stefano Boeri Architects: Bosco Verticale

Dark Matter Labs article: What's guiding our Regenerative Futures?

World Green Building Council article: It's not that easy being green

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Urban Wilding Hub is a new not-for-profit with the mission to mainstream rewilding in towns and cities across Europe. In this episode I explain why I'm launching this and how you can get involved.

Website

Wilding Partners

Urban Wilding Projects Map

Contact about volunteering or collaboration

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Biomimicry has the potential to transform the way we design buildings, public spaces and local economies to reduce environmental harm and improve our health. 

Architect and author Michael Pawlyn joins me to discuss the newly released third edition of his book 'Biomimicry in Architecture'. We discuss what biomimicry actually means and lots of examples of how it can be applied in the built environment.

Buy the book: Biomimicry in Architecture (3rd Edition)

Listen to my previous conversation with Michael:
#41: Michael Pawlyn (Flourish) - Regenerative Design, Biomimicry and Systems Change

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I'm co-leading a fantastic urban design training on 25 September at the Olympic Park in London, UK. Listen to learn more about the format and what you'll learn.

Learn more and register here: https://course.greenurbanist.org/masterclass-sept-25

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A conversation with Theo Michell (COO) and Joe Jack Williams (Head of sustainability) at Bywater Properties. We talk about: 

• A timber-first approach to development 
• A case study of 'Paradise', a six-storey timber-led office building in London
• How timber is becoming more mainstream in UK construction
• Advice for architects and developers getting started with timber

Bywater Properties: https://bywaterproperties.com/

Case Study: Paradise: https://paradise11.co.uk/

Linkedin profiles:
Joe Jack Williams
Theo Michell
Bywater Properties

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This episode is a conversation with Catherine Barratt, Managing Director of Furnitubes. Furnitubes create modular street furniture that helps to bring communities together. In this episode we discuss how they are innovating with sustainable materials and manufacturing processes to create lower impact furniture at the same price. 

Furnitubes Website: https://www.furnitubes.com/

The Green Room podcast: https://www.furnitubes.com/podcasts/

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This episode is a conversation about the 'Wilding Campuses' programme, led by Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK). We talk about the practicalities of applying a 'wilding' approach on highly altered and designed landscapes on educational campuses. 

My guests are:

• Jo Wilkinson, Senior Project Manager, SOS-UK
• Celine Clarke-Miller, Project Manager, SOS-UK
• Liz Morley, Wilding Campuses Project Manager, Nottingham College
• Ben Wright, Biodiversity Officer, Archway Learning Trust

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More about Wilding Campuses

Website: Archway Learning Trust

Connect with Ben on Linkedin

This is part of the urban rewilding podcast series. Listen to all the episodes in the series here: https://greenurbanistpod.com/rewilding

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Mike Berners-Lee is a consultant and author of the new book A Climate of Truth. In this episode we discuss the polycrisis and how raising standards of honesty is essential to respond to the challenges we are facing.

Learn more about and purchase the book: A Climate of Truth

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