Dublin - Irish Landscape Institute - Green Roof Lecture

Dusty Gedge, Director of Livingroofs.org and current President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations will be presenting a public lecture as part of the Irish Landscape Institutes Autumn series of talks.

The details for the free public lecture are:

October 2010
Ecosystem Services, Green Roofs and Urban Ecology
Dusty Gedge 

Date: Thursday 21st October 2010
Venue: Conference Room, Pearse Street Library, Dublin, Eire

Dusty is an internationally recognised green roof consultant and advocate. Internationally he has presented pectures from Portland, Oregon, to Seoul, In South Korea.

He is co-author of Building Greener, published by CIRIA and the main author of the London Living roofs and Technical Report. This report supported the development of the first UK policy for green roofs in London.

Dusty is passionate about the need for vegetation, soil and ecology being an important element in the Urban Environment and the talk will focus on the need for a radical approach to the urban realm - a move away from a hard engineering grey infrastructure approach to a more holistic ecosystem services approach. The talk of course will also highlight the need for biodiversity to be taken seriously when design cities and adapting urban areas to climate change.