Sustainable buildings & cities | Biodiversity 🐞| Animal rights 🐾. Allotment holder 🥬, hiker and book lover 📚 - Roots in 🇫🇷 - Based in 🇨🇮
Dublin City, Ireland
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These before / after picture speaks a thousand words - greening our cities is good for the planet and good for people
[Avant/Après] Débitumisation et végétalisation de la rue de la Providence.
Une rue piétonne et végétalisée, pour aller à l'école en toute sécurité. #ParisSeTransforme
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This graph nicely summarises the co-benefits of greening our cities
@CCACIreland @IrishGBC
Full report ➡️ climatecouncil.ie/councilpub…
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Foxes, badgers and hares sold as live bait in underground wildlife trade (via @thejournal_ie) jrnl.ie/6498010
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Marion Jammet retweeted
Irish leaders need to start being honest about livestock’s long shadow and our unsustainable diets
irishtimes.com/environment/c…
París reverdece de los tejados a las calles: “Ya no solo vamos a construir una ciudad con jardines, vamos a avanzar hacia una verdadera ciudad jardín”. Hay que aprovechar la totalidad del espacio disponible: calles, techos, muros y patios de escuela.
elpais.com/clima-y-medio-amb…
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Some beautiful plants spotted this week:
1. Wild Pansy
2. Pyramidal Orchid
3. Yellow Flag Iris
4. My very first Bee Orchid
#WildFlowerHour @ukorchids @wildflower_hour
On this point, great read on how beautiful native orchid has been appearing on business sites across Ireland as they change their management to become more biodiversity friendly: Bee Orchids – 'the canary in the cage' pollinators.ie/bee-orchids-t…
@IrishGBC
@BioDataCentre
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Over the last few years, French villages have started switching off public lighting at night time. Although primarily designed to save energy, the impact of light #pollution on #wildlife was extensively discussed as part of the public consultation in my parents’ village
While we often talk about the impact of artificial light on fauna, this new article shows that artificial light at night influences leaf functional traits and herbivory in urban environments.
frontiersin.org/journals/pla…
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Interesting read on climate resilience: “We need to stop creating a city where we have so much hard surface when what we need are spongier ways of absorbing water.” theguardian.com/environment/…
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Quelles innovations urbanistiques pour les JO?
Focus sur la sobriété et la réversibilité, ou comment Paris à capitaliser sur les installations sportives existantes, intensifier leurs usages et anticiper leurs utilisations futures
#circulareconomy
theconversation.com/quelles-…
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“The bar is so low for violent men they are ‘to be given credit’ when they admit their guilt” via @parkinsbrea
irishtimes.com/life-style/pe…
Wild flowers spotted in Ireland this week:
🌸 Wild clary
🌸 Threadleaf crowfoot
🌸 Pale flax
And 🌸 Sea centaury
#WildFlowerHour @wildflower_hour
Marion Jammet retweeted
Happy to to share our perspective piece on street trees with @MonikaEgerer @julia_schmack @cordezbar @SusanneRaum. We write about the difficult life our street trees, and the ways in which we have/must step in to help support our urban "Giving Trees".
frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
A huge thanks to @JaneCStout and @JChiclett for a fantastic tour of @tcddublin on #biodiversity in an urban environment with @IrishGBC
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There are almost 600 trees 🌳 on campus, and Trinity are doing an extended no mow May on part of the campus. Really hoping that the rare orchid will appear again this year.
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. @JaneCStout top tip to protect wild bees 🐝 in our cities: Let some parts of your garden undisturbed.
On that point really worth checking @PollinatorPlan resources and pledging your garden for #biodiversity (no matter how small it is!).
#greenercities
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The tragedy is not just the lack of exercise & the long-term health burdens on entire generations. Loss of opportunities for unorganised physical activity represents an incalculable loss of freedom & independence. Great piece on walking and the importance of walkable areas👣
My piece in today’s Irish Times: Walking can be transformative and should not be a luxury
irishtimes.com/environment/c…
Letting grass grow long boosts butterfly numbers, UK study proves 🦋
#biodiversity
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Marion Jammet retweeted
La Banque mondiale appelle à « réorienter drastiquement » le système agroalimentaire mondial pour le climat et suggère de promouvoir davantage les protéines végétales dans les pays riches. En France, on cherche à interdire l'appellation "steak végétal"... lemonde.fr/planete/article/2…