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Website writ
Treehugger set up by eco-advocate Graham Hill
in 2004 is a pot pourri of sustainability, with a
daily newsletter, nowadays orchestrated by
Canadian architect, developer etc. etc., Lloyd
Alter, ranging from green buildings, to preschool
farms, to electric bikes to five easy ways to
save water.
https://www.treehugger.com
Then there’s the Gardens Trust weekly blog
(written by David Marsh) which has notes on
gardens visited, Hever one week, to notes on the
origins of the cottage garden, to Freddy Gibberd’s
garden in Harlow. https://thegardenstrust.blog
For a very different perspective, view the NASA
Worldview site, to see bush fires in Australia, or
the impact of Saharan dust storms across Europe,
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ and
there’s NASA Earth Observatory,
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov where you
can pick your views of our blue planet by theme
ASLA’s The Dirt publishes a weekly blog covering landscape matters such as the impact of solar
power generation (clue it occupies more space
than hydrocarbons), to design for another growth
area, our aging population, to the relevance today
of the ideas of the 19th century sanitation engineer George E. Waring Jr. who was a miasma-ist.
https://dirt.asla.org
Many landscape architects’ websites are text
light and image heavy (not yet another Photoshop
image of perpetual sunlight, unidentifiable plants
and everyone of the same age please).
For some interesting reading see Kim Wilkie’s
philosophy on https://www.kimwilkie.com
07 / 2021
21 July / RHS
Tatton Park Flower Show
Calendar
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26 July / World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
International Conference on Urban Forestry and Tree Populations,
London
26 July / World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
International Conference on Urban Forestry and Tree Populations,
London
08 / 2021
19 August / ICCFMLU
International Conference on Community Forestry, Management
and Land Use, London
09 / 2021
FOLAR / Friends of Landscape Archive at Reading:
Changing attitudes to open space and landscape preservation in
UK 1920s-1930s talk series / 18.00-19.15 www.folar.uk/events
August 10 Dr Navickas: The Open Spaces Society lantern slides
collection and the ideal landscape in the early 20th Century
August 17 Dr Heykoop: Rediscovering the Stream Garden at the
Rookery, Streatham Common
August 24 Dr Church: A review of the early landscape preservationist movement and the creation, in 1926, of the CPRE
5-8 September / Arboricultural Association Conference
Trees and Society, Loughborough
6 September / RTPI
Greenbelt issues, free webinar
12-15 September /European Conference of Landscape Architecture
Schools Stop and Think (www.eclas.org), free on-line
19-27 September / NAAONBs
Landscapes for Life Week
21 September / Chelsea Flower Show
21 September / NRPA
National Recreation and Parks Conference, Nashville, Tennessee
29-30 September / Surrey Wildlife Trust, Natural England + others
National Heathland Conference, Suffolk
A small exhibition will be held at West Ox Arts Gallery in Bampton,
West Oxfordshire, consisting of 14no A1 panels with texts above.
Dates: August 28th - September 25th 2021.
Opening times:Tuesday - Saturday 11.30-4.30; Sunday 2-4: closed Monday.
Subject: ‘THE ART OFTHE LANDSCAPE’- Some examples of 'The
English Style of Naturalistic Landscape Design' as carried out in the last
300 years, ending with 3 panels of late 20th century designs.
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