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Ghost Trains in the Urban Jungle
It could be a vision straight from a post apocalyptic sci-fi movie; a real-life “Planet of the Apes”. Trees and dense shrub vegetation encroach over former railway tracks, sidings and marshalling yards. Abandoned steam locomotives, rusting water towers and mysterious structures loom out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, History & Culture, In Europe, Trees & Greenspaces, Urbanism
Tagged Berlin, Environmental Art, environmental education, graffitti, Green Networks, history, Industriewald, pink floyd, planet of the apes, Südgeländ, Society for Urban Ecology, spirit of place, SURE, Urban Forestry, Urban Greenspace, woodlands, zombies
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Brave New Worlds
A High-Rise Future ? Our cities are changing and not just in Eastern China or the Gulf States; on a recent visit to Milan, I turned a corner in one of the City’s older districts to be confronted by a towering utopia of shining … Continue reading
Posted in In Europe, Trees & Greenspaces, Urbanism
Tagged High Rise, Milan, sustainable development, Urban change, Urban Forestry, urban planning
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“Scotland: Landscapes and Legends”
For anyone in Aachen and surrounding area; I’ll be making a presentation at the Volkshochschule in Stolberg on the 16th May entitled “Scotland: Landscapes and Legends”. I’ll be talking about exploring Scotland’s wild landscapes on foot and by canoe (including many of the locations mentioned on … Continue reading
Posted in History & Culture, In Europe, In Scotland, Mountain Treks, Wild Places
Tagged Canoe Trips, Highlands, mountains, nature, outdoors, Scottish History, sea kayaking, spirit of place, walking
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Green Cities of Europe
European countries including Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium have become renowned in recent years for their progressive environmental planning policies which have helped to create some of the world’s most attractive and livable cities. It is therefore no accident that European cities including Vienna, Zurich, … Continue reading
Posted in Aachen & Euregio, In Europe, Trees & Greenspaces
Tagged Aachen, Berlin, community gardens, Ecotowns, Emscher Landschaft Parc, environmental education, Euregio, Freiburg, germany, Grünmetropole, green infrastructure, Green Networks, Green urbanism, healthy eating, Karlsruhe, Low carbon, Münster, organic growing, renewable energy, Ruhr, Salzburg, sustainable development, trams, urban agriculture, Urban Forestry, Urban Greenways, urban planning, Urban transport
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“Baumhaus”: Radical art down in the woods
In a recent summer, something very strange could be seen down in the woods at the “Dreilander Punkt” outside Aachen at the meeting point of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Weird shapes and constructions (featuring the most outrageous colour schemes imaginable), graffiti art and … Continue reading
Carnival in Aachen: Vanquishing the spirits of winter… ?
Joie de vivre, frivolity and “letting your hair down” are not characteristics most often associated with the Germans (with the possible exception of the well-known Munich Octoberfest) who are better known for their more sober traits including “attention to detail”, a sense of … Continue reading
Posted in Aachen & Euregio, History & Culture, In Europe
Tagged Aachen, Carnival, Euregio, Fasching, Germany travel, Rhineland, winter festivals
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Tummel and Tay: Exploring Scotland by Canadian Canoe
In an age dominated by road transport, most journeys these days involve jumping into the car. This was not however always the case; for our ancestors rivers and lochs formed the main communication routes through the landscape. On the River Tay in Perthshire, for example, log … Continue reading
Posted in Canoe Trips, History & Culture, In Scotland, Wild Places
Tagged Aberfeldy, autumn colours, Big Tree Country, Canadian Canoeing, Canoe Trips, Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire, Highlands, history, In Scotland, Kenmore, Killin, Loch Faskally, Loch Tay, Loch Tummel, mountains, nature, outdoors, wellbeing
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Greening Urban Scotland: the Lothians and Fife Green Network
One of the biggest and most interesting challenges that I’ve had in recent years has been the development of the Lothians and Fife Green Network Partnership (LFGNP). I was involved in the setting up of this project from its inception in 2008 (initially as the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, In Scotland, Trees & Greenspaces
Tagged Central Scotland Green Network, CSGN, Edinburgh and the Lothians, environmental education, Forest Habitat Networks, Green Networks, LFGNP, Lothians and Fife Green Network Partnership, nature, sustainable development, Urban Forestry, Urban Greenspace, wellbeing, woodlands
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Setting up an Adventure Tourism Business: a case of bad timing
Has it ever seemed like the day job is not quite enough ? For years I’d had a nagging feeling that there ought to be more to life than the 9-5 office job staring at computer screen. In some ways I was one of the lucky … Continue reading
Posted in History & Culture, In Scotland, Mountain Treks, Wild Places
Tagged Adventure Tourism, Business, family, Green Tourism, Highlands, history, In Scotland, landscape, legends, mountains, nature, outdoors, Perthshire, spirit of place, walking
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Surviving the Worst of Times: Recording an Album
It was one of these days when all your worst nightmares come true. You arrive at work to find that the boss has other plans for you; you’ve been made redundant ! So you go home to find a phone message saying that the … Continue reading
Posted in In Scotland, Music
Tagged blues, folk, guitar, life events. Scotland, recording, redundancy, rock, Scottish music, singing, song writing, survival
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