Roofs & Rambles

When I was out in Washington DC I was lucky enough to stay for a few days up on Ed Snodgrass’s Farm in Harford County, MD. Normally my approach to visiting foreign countries is to race about chasing a list and trying to see as much as I can!!! I return to the UK for [...]

Earlier in the year as part of my London leaders pledge I manages to get Lendlease Retail Ltd to install a small green roof on their London HQ. The roof in question was in fact a balcony 30m long and about 1m wide. The roof was installed over a weekend in January by  Garden Lounge [...]

A visit to Pestival at the weekend inspired me to write something on habitat walls, sand walls and of course green roofs! Nearly everywhere I have traveled in Switzerland and Germany, from the Black Forest to thuringia, to the high Alps, to animal parks, nature reserves and even Universities I have always encountered these features. [...]

Green roofs and strawbale buildings is a complete eco-friendly way to build. I know that Amazonails have done quite a few buildings like this and John Little and are hoping to be running a workshop with them on this combined theme in November sometime. Keep an eye on greenroofstraining for more info or sign up [...]

Popped up to Pestival for a couple of hours with my son. With all this twittering for tweehive day thought I should at least drag myself away from the computer and doing something a tad more interesting.
It was great – sitting at the tweehive cabaret wondering who was who. I am sure there were quite [...]

Picture courtesy Martha @Clark Elioak Farm
The small green roof we built on the Mall in DC back in late June has found a new home in Elliot City, Maryland. The constructio followed the principles in our e-guide and those we teach people on our DIY green roof training courses. I blogged about the Mall event [...]