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Marvelous video from Mouvement Colibris
about the dangerous results of farming and the merits of urban farming....
have a look!
You will understand also if you do not speak french:
http://vimeo.com/65132998
LEITFADEN ZUR BAUWERKSBEGRÜNUNGDie Universität für Bodenkultur und der Verband für Bauwerksbegrünung und erstellten zusammen mit der Wiener Umweltschutzabteilung (MA 22) der Stadt Wien einen Leitfaden für Fassadenbegrünung. Der Leitfaden wurde am 22. Februar 2013 im Rahmen einer Fachtagung der TU Wien präsentiert. In dieser ganztägigen Veranstaltung wurden Vorträge zu verschiedenen aktuellen Themenbereichen wie städtisches Mikroklima, Schadstoffdeposition, Bautechnik -physik und -statik, Bewässerungstechnik, Regenwassermanagement am Gebäude, Urban Farming, Ästethische Aufwertung und Attraktivieren des öffentlichen Raumes, Fassadenbegrünung in der Planungs- und Ausführungspraxis, Ökologische Funktion und Biotopvernetzung und Fassadenbegrünung im weltweiten Kontext geboten. Der Leitfaden Fassadenbegrünung ist gratis erhältliich als - Download: 9,2 MB PDF oder kann bestellt werden bei der MA 22. Ebenso sind eine Reihe der Vorträge als gratis Downloads abrufbar: Tagungsbeiträge
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"Bringing Nature Back to Town":
33rd International Green Roof Congress 2013norganised by the International Green Roof Association (IGRA)
13–15 May 2013 at the Empire Riverside Hotel in Hamburg, Germany.
Exiting programme ! You can find information about the programme as well as further reports about outstanding Green Roof projects in Canada (VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre), the Netherlands (Zuid Park - Europe largest rooftop farm) and other countries in the current IGRA Newsletter http://www.igra-world.com/links_and_downloads/images_dynamic/IGRA_Green_Roof_News_2_2012.pdf
The event is embedded in the International Garden Show (IGS) and the International Building Exhibition (IBA) which are taking place in Hamburg in the same year.
Register your place at the congress before 01 March 2013 and take advantage of a free Green Roof excursion at www.greenroofworld.com.
SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT FOR THE WORLD GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE CONGRESS 2013 BY THE END OF FEBRUARY 2013 !
Organized by the french association of green roofs and walls (ADIVET) under the hospice of the World Green Infrastructure Network, this congress will be held in France for the first time, in Nantes, from September 9th to September 13th, 2013. Around the greening of cities and infrastructure, we invite you to present your work in the oral presentation program and in the posters sessions, September 10th and September 11th (City Events Center Nantes).
BUILD THIS CONGRESS WITH US
The scientific committee of the WGIC 2013 is waiting for your contribution around the thematic, which issues are recognized today from the ecosystem to the ecocity : impacts/effects, urban ecology, urban politicy and economy, regulations, technological and architectural innovations, ...
Academic and non academic productions, disciplinary and non-disciplinary research results, perspectives, comparative analyses and feedback are welcome.
WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US?
It is a unique opportunity to promote your work, to debate and to share with a french and international audience of actors aware of the areas of urbanplaning, building plant, teaching and research.
The scientific committee of the congress will be attentive to your contribution to built with you and for you a high quality programme either on the scientific and technological aspect. LOOKING FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU!
SOUMETTEZ DÈS MAINTENANT ET JUSQU'À FIN FÉVRIER 2013 VOTRE RESUMÉ POUR LE WORLD GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE CONGRESS 2013!
Organisé par l'ADIVET, sous l'égide du WGIN (World Green Infrastructure Network), ce congrès aura lieu pour la première fois en France , à Nantes du 9 au 13 septembre 2013. Sur le thème de la végétalisation du bâti, défi de la ville, nous vous invitons à présenter vos travaux dans le cadre du programme de communications orales en session et ateliers, et des séances posters, les 10 et 11 septembre (cité des congrès de Nantes).
CONSTRUISEZ AVEC NOUS CE CONGRÈS !
Le comité scientifique du WGIC 2013 attend toutes les contributions liées à la thématique dont les enjeux sont reconnus aujourd'hui, de l'écosystème à l'écocité : impacts/effets, écologie urbaine, politique et économie, urbanisme et réglementation, innovations technologiques et architecturales,... Productions académiques et non académiques, résultats de recherche disciplinaire et transversale, mises en perspectives, analyses comparatives, retour d'expérience sont acceptés.
POURQUOI NOUS REJOINDRE ?
C'est une occasion exceptionnelle de promouvoir la qualité vos travaux, de débattre et d'échanger avec un parterre français et international d'acteurs avertis des secteurs de l'urbanisme, du bâtiment, du végétal, de l'enseignement et de la recherche.
Le comité scientifique du congrès sera attentif à votre contribution pour construire avec vous et à votre attention un programme de haute qualité scientifique et technologique. SOYEZ LES BIENVENUS!
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Städte-Umfrage der Fachvereinigung für Bauwerksbegrünung FBB und des Deutsche Naturschutzbund NABU zur Förderung von Bauwerksbegrünung
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New research results:
Green plants reduce city street pollution up to eight times more than previously believed
Trees, bushes and other greenery growing in the concrete-and-glass canyons of cities can reduce levels of two of the most worrisome air pollutants by eight times more than previously believed, a new study has found. A report on the research appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Effectiveness of Green Infrastructure for Improvement of Air Quality in Urban Street Canyons
Abstract:
Street-level concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter (PM) exceed public health standards in many cities, causing increased mortality and morbidity. Concentrations can be reduced by controlling emissions, increasing dispersion, or increasing deposition rates, but little attention has been paid to the latter as a pollution control method. Both NO2 and PM are deposited onto surfaces at rates that vary according to the nature of the surface; deposition rates to vegetation are much higher than those to hard, built surfaces. Previously, city-scale studies have suggested that deposition to vegetation can make a very modest improvement (<5%) to urban air quality. However, few studies take full account of the interplay between urban form and vegetation, specifically the enhanced residence time of air in street canyons. This study shows that increasing deposition by the planting of vegetation in street canyons can reduce street-level concentrations in those canyons by as much as 40% for NO2 and 60% for PM. Substantial street-level air quality improvements can be gained through action at the scale of a single street canyon or across city-sized areas of canyons. Moreover, vegetation will continue to offer benefits in the reduction of pollution even if the traffic source is removed from city centers. Thus, judicious use of vegetation can create an efficient urban pollutant filter, yielding rapid and sustained improvements in street-level air quality in dense urban areas.
Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K., LA1 4YQ
Published at: Environmental Science and Technology., 2012, 46 (14), pp 7692–7699
Publication Date (Web): June 4, 2012
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NeuerscheinungMartin Rasper
Vom Gärtnern in der Stadt
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TEEB The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity |
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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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"Die Natur imitieren".
Interview
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Fallopia japonica - a video by iris-a maz |
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