Category Archives: Featured Videos

Green roof barn providing wildlife habitat in Essex UK

Green roof barn providing wildlife habitat in Essex UK

This new video is of a green roof barn in Essex. The two roofs design provides to meaningful habitat on the green roofs. Firstly there is a good green roof designed for dry grassland species and then a second water that retains more rain water. Thus creating an ephemeral wetland green roof.

Retrofitted  green infrastructure – where many thought it not possible

Retrofitted green infrastructure – where many thought it not possible

Retrofitted green infrastructure in the Urban realm Green features retrofitted  into housing estates can have a real impact. It is essentially to work closely with the communities in question. This weeks featured video not only shows the benefits to the environment but also to the people living in the neighbourhoods. Retrofitted rain gardens and small green…

Schools – learning through green roofs

Schools – learning through green roofs

This weeks video features Dusty Gedge discussing the benefits of green roofs and how they link to the curriculum in schools   Design schools with green roofs for education Many schools include green roofs in their designs. These designs, however, tend to limit access to the green roofs solely for maintenance. Surely green roofs, even…

Swiss Orchid Green Roof

Swiss Orchid Green Roof

This weeks video is of the famous Zurich Orchid Green roofs.     You can read the first of two articles on Orchids on roofs here

Nature Based Solutions Helping to Change Our Cities

Nature Based Solutions Helping to Change Our Cities

From problem to solution, the video is also a potted history of why are cities are suffering from pollution. Well made with great old footage of cities and old graphics, it is also about the community. Engaging people help create advocacy is a key element in the evolving world of green infrastructure and nature based solutions.