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May 8 - 12, 2012 -Leipzig, Germany |
15th European Forum on Urban Forestry
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Papers and posters are welcome ! |
URBAN GREY TO URBAN GREEN
World Green Roof Congress, Copenhagen - 19-21 September 2012
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Keynote speakers will be drawn the WGRC’s knowledge of the working professionals in the field of green roofs including architects with a commitment to vegetation in the built environment, officers form cities with dynamic and exemplar green roof policies and green roof champions from around the world.
The congress will also reflect current activities at a european and global scale including the development of the EU’s Green Infrastructure Programme and the UN’s Nagoya statement on Urban Biodiversity in this the UN’s Decade of Biodiversity. |
The 2012 World Green Roof Congress in Copenhagen will bring together leading architects, designers and practitioners form around the globe to highlight the need to green the Urban Grey to green.
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The congress will focus on: - Exemplar architectural design and green roofs |
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Green roof at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in SingaporeThis 5 story building sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses. The curving green roofs distinguish the building from among the other structures on campus but the line between landscape and building is blurred. The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear ideas and stirring perception. The roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the building and bond it to the setting. |
| Green has both, economic and emotional value...listen to the story of :the Highline New York : http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_hammond_building_a_park_in_the_sky.html |
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Marente Bloemheuvel
Hiryczuk / Van Oevelen - Landfall
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This is a publication about Landfall, a large scale project in the public space of Amsterdam Zuidas and was commissioned by the Virtuall Museum Zuidas. For more information: → www.japsambooks.nl |
Amsterdamtext on the poster: "If the climate had been a bank, it would have already been saved". |
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Water evaporated from trees cools global climateScientists have long debated about the impact of global climate on water evaporation from vegetation. New research from Carnegie’s Global Ecology department concludes that evaporated water helps cool the earth as a whole, not just the local area of evaporation, demonstrating that evaporation of water from trees and lakes could have a cooling effect on the entire atmosphere. These findings, recently published by the Carnegie Institution for Science, have major implications for urban planning. Trees in Cities cover both: the battle against urban heath and global warming. read more here > See also this page about effects of urban trees here > |
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Sustainable Urban Environments - An Ecosystem Approach
On the basis of the described ecosystem approach the authors give their view en knowledge in seperate chapters about urban ecology, water flows, energy in the built environment, material use, air quality and human health, liveability, urban transport, urban form, climate integrated design, tools and managing change. 16 different researchers, lecturers and professors of the University of Technology of Delft give their view and knowledge based on the most relevant and available knowledge. The use of the book can give the users the possibility to contribute on designing a sustainable urban environment. More information can be found: http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/book/978-94-007-1293-5
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...have a look at the world of urban farming:
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Fallopia japonica - a video by iris-a maz |
The indoor-biotope :Green is in... even indoor designers use the hint in the Park Meerland, Eindhovengets the |
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