Sustainable Thinking

Optimism, action, workable climate adaptation + regeneration. Nature Based Solutions. Old & New Innovations. Motivation & Inspiration. Brilliant ideas & vision for a sustainable future ~ Acknowledge commitments, urgency & necessary lifestyle changes. Consider the inventions & indigenous wisdom. What opportunities do you see for future generations? Can we realise the magnificence of our beautiful planet earth? Making our impact safer, healthier, protective, proactive? 🌎🌍🌏
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Climate City Planning
‘Urban planning is a powerful tool to tackle the climate crisis and create sustainable, equitable and resilient cities. [This Guide is] a pivotal resource, equipping those responsible for shaping our urban landscapes with the insights necessary to drive sustainable transformation - to adopt integrated, forward-thinking urban planning strategies that prioritise both people and planet.’
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Trees Forever
‘Thinking of planting trees, but need some help? Many native broadleaf trees will grow in difficult areas with little or no fertiliser. Local plants are adapted to local soils and climate and often have lower maintenance requirements…’ Knowledge and advice from the UK's largest woodland conservation charity 🕊️🌿 🌳 🌍
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Planetary Living
‘Lyla June’s dynamic, multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. An Indigenous musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages.’ One of the most profoundly relevant Ted talks in our understanding of harmonious living with our planet 🌿
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Future So Bright ~ Gotta Have Shade
🌞 You can’t argue with the sun ~ When it’s beating down, you may have to take cover ⛱️get in the shade🌳☀️ In some ways it’s simple: Block direct sunrays // things cool down. But what happens when windows are left exposed to direct sunlight? Buildings get hot inside. When Architects talk about Solar Gain - what can they do to make significant improvement? And shade can be retrofitted to existing buildings…Take a deep dive via the link🔗 ➕Remember, well placed Deciduous Trees can also make a Huge difference.
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Adapted & Prepared
📝 Excellent to discover this risk assessment style approach to prepare your organisation, business, workplace, employees and services ✅ ‘a new resource to help businesses in Scotland prepare for extreme weather and increase their business resilience.’ 🌤️
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Nature Based Solutions
What are nature-based solutions? ‘Strategic actions that leverage nature's processes to address challenges such as climate change, food and water scarcity, and disaster risks. ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ Nature is the ultimate inventor when it comes to healing Mother Earth 🌎 Find out more about N.B.S.’s via The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) 🔗
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Teaching Climate Kids
📕 ‘Weather Together’ is an environmental education toolkit from The Red Cross ~ Designed to equip learners with key skills & knowledge 👩🏻‍🏫 These comprehensive teaching resources, aimed at 10-16-year-olds, help prepare children & young people to cope with extreme weather events 🌈🌦️
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Climate Cooling
Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling PDRC 🌡️ In a few words: Effectively reflecting heat away! ~ In more complex terms, and with innovations ready for development, it seemed best in this case to share the full Wikipedia entry 📖 as it’s a remarkable opportunity but hasn’t had a great deal of coverage as a climate change innovation. 🌞 Certainly deserves plenty of deep consideration 🌎
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Reduce Reuse Refill
🌏 The Living Landscape project aims to build an evergreen resource detailing existing Reusable Solutions to plastic waste 🫙 ‘Switching to ‘Reuse’ can save 8 billion metric tons of CO2’ 🔗 Global Data Resources and more 🧩
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Hot Buildings ~ Cool Ideas
“A lot of these strategies are about being in touch with nature and understanding how it works” ‘Roofs are one way architects, engineers and designers are rethinking buildings to find ways to keep them cool without air conditioning. The challenge is becoming increasingly urgent.’ | ‘One of the simplest forms of passive cooling makes use of temperature change in the air when water evaporates - it takes energy from the air in the form of heat.’ Exciting BBC Future article 🔗
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Good Green Jobs
‘C40 Cities to drive the creation of 50 million good, green jobs by 2030’ ~ Full story and report via 🔗 There is so much work to be done to build Climate Resilience, Safe & Healthy Communities ~ Innovation & Adaptation Glimpse support this dynamic area of work and development with Effective Self Care & Creative Mindset
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Attention ~ New Book
📒❗️ ‘In order to do anything that matters, we must first be able to give attention to the things that matter. Doing so has never been easy, but lately it’s become harder in new and surprising ways. While we weren’t watching, a next generation threat to human freedom materialized right in front of our noses…’ Full book from
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Garden City Guides
‘Garden City Standards for the 21st Century: Practical Guides for Creating Successful New Communities ~ Outlining practical steps for all those interested in making 21st-century Garden Cities a reality. Detail & Case Studies on a wide range of key issues, including Planning, Investment, Land assembly, delivery, and long-term Stewardship.’ 🌳🏡 🚴🏾‍♂️ 🌤️🌱
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Climate Solutions
“Every bit of warming avoided due to the collective actions pulled from our growing, increasingly effective toolkit of options is less worse news for societies and the ecosystems on which we all depend.” 🌎 Up to date research, findings + plans. Picture 🔗 IPCC Synthesis Report 2023 Intergovernmental Panel on #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Sustainability #NatureBasedSolutions #Regeneration #ClimateScience #SDGs
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Eco Action
💡Sustainable living ideas start in the home and you and yours do make a difference 📚 When you know younger readers who might enjoy this kind of thing ~ Please take a look at our 📌Board: Children’s Natural Wellbeing for more great books that support wellbeing and inspire Nature Connection from an early age.