Changing the Landscape of Flood Resilience
Giving Natural Flood Management Development a Boost Through Innovation Support Guest Blog: Hiatt [...]
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What is an Urban Forest Master Plan?
Guest Post – Keith Sacre – Treeconomics Following on from our recent blog from Kenton [...]
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Introducing StreetPark – Beautiful & Functional Furniture Collection
Over the years, GreenBlue Urban have widely echoed the numerous worldwide studies on the importance [...]
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Introducing ArborAdvance – Guaranteeing Long Term Planting Success
Is it all about “Right Tree, Right Place?” Or do we need to add “For the Right Reasons & In the [...]
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Are there enough “Green” Planners?
GreenBlue were delighted to see a DEFRA announcement dated 12th March for a government-led funding [...]
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Driving Green Infrastructure Policy Forward
GreenBlue are overjoyed when councils present a GI Policy / Strategy; even more so when we see the [...]
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Discussing Carbon Storage Potential
In June 2019, parliament passed a legislation requiring the government to reduce the UK’s net [...]
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Stormwater Made Simple
Stormwater is, in essence, just what is sounds like: water from a storm. Any precipitation that [...]
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Lets Become the Collaboration Generation
Different disciplines working together from early planning is often a hot topic discussed within [...]
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Festival of Ideas: Designing for Successful SuDS
SuDS, the acronym everyone is talking about. Smart planning for sustainable urban drainage system [...]
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Further Modelling Guidance Tools
With the recent success of last year’s publication detailing the methods of Sustainable Drainage [...]
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Looking after SuDS, Is Legislation Enough?
On paper, the idea of sustainable drainage (SuDS) has so much going for it for developers. It helps [...]
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Not all Super Heroes wear Capes. (Some wear Leaves).
Trees are the heroes of our landscape. A bold claim you think? Possibly. But look at the list of [...]
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Using Sustainable Drainage Systems to add Value to Development Projects
Using Sustainable Drainage features calls on developers, designers and planners to adopt a new way [...]
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There’s more to managing stormwater than ‘pipe to pond’
Looks all too familiar, doesn’t it? Far too often we are seeing images across our news channels on [...]
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The Conservation Volunteers: Let’s Get Planting
Mini Urban Forests – for people and green spaces Trees – we all know they are good for the [...]
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City of Trees: Let’s Get Planting!
City of Trees is the Community Forest for Greater Manchester and is one ten Community Forests [...]
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Veterans Growth: Promoting Positivity & Well-being through Horticulture
Veterans’ Growth works with ex-military personnel to promote positive mental health and well-being. [...]
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Introducing 9 Trees
9 Trees, as a concept, was formed in 2018 by Michael Cunningham, an experienced habitat and [...]
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Let’s Get Planting – National Tree Week
Despite maintaining business as usual there are still the daily challenges particularly in [...]
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Protecting Newly Planted Urban Trees
In nature, young trees are supported and protected by other trees. As trees grow from a seed, their [...]
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Twenty Years of Soil Cells
Great cities are usually blessed with great trees; London, Paris, New York, Madrid, Buenos Aires, [...]
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The Story Behind GreenBlue Urban
It’s hard seeing something that you have planted die; many of us have experienced the [...]
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Discussing the Basics of Root Management
Whilst tree roots can grow deep into the ground, most tree species that we plant in the UK streets [...]
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Value Management or Value Engineering
We all appreciate Value – today we look at the balance between benefit (outputs) and the cost or [...]
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