The Building Site

Creating micro-forests in the cities. Started in June 2018, at London Festival of Architecture

[The Building Site @BuildingSiteLFA]

It is now, more than ever before, that we need to look at the forests not for material resources or taking up the CO2 stock, but as rich mechanisms that have their own life cycles and support a variety of flora and fauna.

https://t.co/LN6LNArSVo

#urbanforest #greencities

[The Building Site @BuildingSiteLFA]

🌳 3 years later, a filmmaker Vytautas Rimkevicius presented us a short film made around the story of the Building Site and why it matters to rethink the ways we treat nature in cities:
https://t.co/CSfSCIp5dR

#greenculture #urbanforest #london @LFArchitecture

[GoParksLondon* @goparkslondon]

Check out the beautiful nature trails and orchard at Finchley Way Open Space - one of many sites you can explore using the interactive map at #GoParksLondon
https://t.co/XKl8IYH6Rm
#barnet

[Trees for Cities @TreesforCities]

More than 50 urban trees in the UK disappear every day 😢

But with you on our side, we can plant more and make our cities greener! 😀

Text TREES to 70085 to donate £6 - which will enable us to plant a tree! 🌳 (txts cost £6+std network msg) #charitytuesday

[Susan Crisp @pureheather]

#UrbanTreeFestival @museumofwalking would be great to host an event @BurgessPk
Please help raise funds by contributing ... link below.

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Only 3% of UK wildflower meadows are left - bad news for pollinating insects like bees and butterflies, hit hard by habitat loss. So councils: not over-mowing or weedkiller-spraying small verges and green corners this year is one easy way to help 🐝🌻

[Morethanweeds @morethanweeds]

Tree pits - sprayed (pic @DaveGoulson) or with plants? Weeds compete for water with young trees but can protect older trees from urine, drought, trampling & soil compaction and contribute to urban biodiversity. Selective weeding could save councils thousands of £! #morethanweeds

[Help Save Haigh Woods 🍃💚🍃 @HaighHelp]

Share this far and wide. Help us #savehaighwoods https://t.co/Gpw7ynxZhx

[Jeremy Barrell @JeremyDBarrell]

We already know this but it doesn't hurt to have it confirmed. What is interesting is that conventional forestry is focused on monocultures, but now we know that multispecies and canopy layers is much better in every way. Time to adjust the practice guidance.

[Jeremy Barrell @JeremyDBarrell]

Rewilding can go hand in hand with efficient agriculture, productive uplands, and a thriving forest industry. The evidence is building and it is becoming harder to ignore the sense of this natural approach to sustainable management. It must become mainstream not fringe thinking.

[Jeremy Barrell @JeremyDBarrell]

An interesting dilemma. The world desperately needs more trees & northern hemisphere conifers self set & grow like mad in New Zealand. Yet there are proactive policies to kill invasive species under the banner of encouraging native vegetation. Is this ecological tunnel vision?

[The Building Site @BuildingSiteLFA]

The best and worst moments showing human relation to the natural and built environment crisis:

https://t.co/yO7xbZVhgR

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

Romanians protested hundreds of attacks on forest rangers, including two who have been brutally murdered, for protecting forests.

Each year, 38 million cubic meters of wood disappear from Romania’s forests... most of the trees are cut down illegally.

#StopIllegalLogging

[Russell Horsey @RussellHorsey]

Great day in Liverpool with @WoodlandTrust @LeedsCC_News @Onward_Homes @wvhtOpenSpace training teams from councils & housing associations training on how to run successful community tree planting events @WoodlandDwellin #urbantrees #community @AdamCormack_

[The Brokedown Palace @TheBrokedownPal]

Come and explore the world’s largest urban forest with @TheStreetTree 11am Sunday 22nd September starting at our @spitalfieldsE1 shop and ending in Shoreditch with a book signing. £5 with all proceeds going to the #UrbanTreeFestival2020 🌳 tickets here https://t.co/21KEObUREP

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Dear councils, Please reduce needless over-mowing of our public spaces, green corners and roadverges, and avoid weedkillers and pesticides! Less work, fossil fuel use, cost. More wildlife, wildflowers, insects. 🐝
#minimeadows #climateaction #biodiversity

[Bella Lack @BellaLack]

At this terrible time for rainforests, I’m excited to be able to provide a glimmer of hope & announce that the world’s first youth-funded nature Reserva will be in the Chocó rainforest, Ecuador. Only 2% remains because of resource extraction. Don’t pray for rainforests, save them

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Last week Iceland held funeral, for death of Okjokull glacier. - must we now hold another funeral for death of #Amazonrainforest - how long will it be until we hold funeral for humanity - as world has resources to put out the fires but instead allows Brazil to burn it down

[The Building Site @BuildingSiteLFA]

The lack of collaboration to stop this ecological disaster is really unacceptable...

#AmazonFires #PrayForTheAmazon

[Cameron Beccario @cambecc]

We can visualize carbon monoxide to understand the scale of fires in the Amazon rainforest.

This animation is a one month time-lapse of carbon monoxide surface concentration, as modeled by GEOS-5. Fires begin to intensify on Aug 5th.

Current conditions: https://t.co/ZgJyzA5U1f