These two news items show the growing interest in what happens to our outdoor spaces and how to make them greener
The first is about a campaign for the right to grow in unused spaces – an interesting idea you might like to know more about…
People should be given the right to turn road verges, sterile lawns around hospitals and underused public spaces into vegetable gardens and orchards, say ‘Incredible Edible’, campaigners for a “right to grow” law.
Read more from the Guardian here
The Guardian May 2022
The second is about those huge areas of asphalt that schools sometimes call a ‘playing field’. Rising temperatures make these difficult to use – so imaginative designs come into play – with some lovely pictures of what is possible……
Out with asphalt: US schoolyards transformed into green oases – in pictures
With thanks to Greg Willcox