Green Infrastructure - News and Events

20 July 2021 - One of NatureScot’s ecologists, Abi Gardner, has been talking about working with a young artist as part of the Edinburgh’s Future Green Spaces Exhibition. Part of the capital city’s Science Festival the collaboration focussed on the newly named ‘Leith-on-Sea’, and explored what the area could look like if it used nature-based solutions to adapt to effects of climate change.

18 May 2021 - In Mental Health Awareness Week the value of nature in supporting people is being celebrated. At Canal and North Gateway (one of our ERDF funded projects) the creation of improved greenspaces and greener active travel routes are proving increasingly popular.

7 May 2021 - As we head into Mental Health Awareness Week how appropriate that this year’s theme is “Nature”, and that it is also Scotland’s Green Health Week. This may indeed be a perfect partnership.

25 March 2021 - Alt-Erlaa is a green vision, one that demonstrates so many good things you have to pinch yourself to realise it is in essence a housing estate, not a private paradise.

2 March 2021 - This is a city that looks forward as well as over its shoulder, and good green infrastructure and pollinator-friendly projects are very much in vogue in Piedmont.

2 December 2020 - Climate change, rising sea levels, increased flooding episodes, it’s a litany of challenges...

2 December 2020 - As I settled down one dark evening last week I flicked through a host of social media updates. One of them quickly caught my eye. It was the news that Fernbrae Meadows had been shortlisted for a SURF Award.

19 November 2020 - We’re a nature reserve and we’re a 45 minute walk from Sauchiehall Street. You couldn’t get closer to the city but here you are in a nature reserve and it’s quiet.

30 September 2020 - Revised GICEF leaflets

23 September 2020 - It is doubtful if, in the wake of the Covid pandemic, that cities will ever be quite the same again.