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Mission – Possible!
January 27, 2022
The negative effects of climate change we see and hear worrying, the proven statistics are even [...]
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Global Climate Change – A Paradigm Shift Required
January 13, 2022
Adapting to Climate Change has never been so important; as the BBC reported just this week the past [...]
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Urban Tree Planting: Guaranteeing Long-Term Success
December 9, 2021
After almost 3 1/2 years after it was first published the Environment Bill has now been passed by [...]
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Reasons to Choose the Only Fully Integrated Tree Pit Solution
November 18, 2021
GreenBlue Urban has been supporting building contractors for decades – helping them to save time [...]
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Reflecting your ethos in Green Space
October 14, 2021
Ethos: the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and [...]
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Designing for Climate Change
September 16, 2021
Climate Change is a term that is used every day, but do we fully understand the importance of what [...]
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Bringing Nature to your Doorstep
September 9, 2021
Biodiversity surrounds us in our everyday lives without us even noticing, from the birds in the [...]
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Quotation to Seamless Installation
July 29, 2021
Green infrastructure is often described as a series of interconnected networks of multifunctional [...]
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Good Design Starts Below Ground
July 15, 2021
It’s all too easy when designing an urban space, to begin with, what we have at or above ground [...]
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Designing a 15 Minute City
June 24, 2021
Before COVID 19 and the need for working at home became essential, a ’15 minute City’ concept [...]
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Planting Trees on Rooftops and Podium Decks
May 13, 2021
In our increasingly dense towns and cities, we are having to find new and creative ways to get [...]
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Right Tree, Right Place
April 29, 2021
One of the best known arboricultural statements is Right tree, Right place – often used to [...]
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Urban Tree Planting Constraints
April 22, 2021
As soon as tree planting is proposed in our congested urban areas, the full plethora of challenges [...]
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Value Management or Value Engineering
October 29, 2020
We all appreciate Value – today we look at the balance between benefit (outputs) and the cost or [...]
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Who is responsible for Maintaining our Public Trees?
October 15, 2020
During times of economic crisis, budgets for local authority landscape maintenance have always been [...]
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Will we see tree-lined streets on all new developments?
August 20, 2020
Since MP Mr Chris Clarkson brought a Private Members Bill to the House of Commons on 15th July that [...]
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Enabling Seamless Specification
May 28, 2020
Did you know GreenBlue Urban offers FREE Urban Tree Planting Design Services? At the start of any [...]
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Adapting to Change – Healthy Streets
May 21, 2020
In London and large cities like New York in North America, Nearly 80% public open space is [...]
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What is an Urban Forest?
May 14, 2020
Guest Post – Kenton Rogers – Treeconomics Urban Forestry is a term which many of us [...]
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Happy Healthy Communities
May 7, 2020
In our smaller communities Trees are more than just shade and protection, they are jungle gyms for [...]
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Effective Pollutant Mitigation of Stormwater Run-Off Using ArborFlow
April 30, 2020
The ArborFlow SuDS Tree Pit system was developed as part of an integrated surface water management [...]
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Urban Collaboration – How we work with you!
April 23, 2020
When we look back at these times of uncertainty, there will be some contributing factor’s apart [...]
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Enabling you to Build Green Cities
March 24, 2020
With everyday life very much behind closed doors with the instruction of homebound living, [...]
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Embedding Canopy Cover from the Start
August 1, 2019
We quite often see new developments and prominent city-centre regeneration schemes lauded and [...]
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Long Term Successful Tree Planting and the Rise of the Planter
July 19, 2019
Following some activity in the Twittersphere regarding the trees in planters in Kings Cross, a site [...]
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