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Apply for up to £4,000 to support community projects
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Tesco Bags of Help has already funded 780 projects in Scotland - sharing over £4 million pounds between them.
Tesco Bags of Help funds 225 projects in Scotland every 2 months. You can apply now for up to £4000 for projects that bring benefits to the community. This includes outdoor or indoor improvements, activities and equipment purchases.
To make an application or to find out more, visit the Tesco Bags of Help website.
You can also get help to apply from one of greenspace scotland's team of community enablers.
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£4.6 million funding to sustainable transport in Scotland
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Paths for All funded 173 sustainable and active travel initiatives across Scotland through Transport Scotland’s Smarter Choices, Smarter Places 2016/17 programme.
The projects spanned 30 local authorities, 18 of which were in the CSGN area. Funding was made available to make walking and cycling a mode of choice for short local journeys in our towns, cities and villages.
This is helping to cut Scotland’s carbon emissions and improve our air quality. It will help reverse the trend towards sedentary lifestyles and will tackle health inequalities.
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Sustrans active travel toolbox
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The Sustrans Active Travel Toolbox provides guides, resources, tools and case studies to help local authorities and their partners make the case for and improve walking and cycling schemes. The toolbox is also designed to help you plan and deliver walking and cycling schemes in local areas.
The toolbox has been written by Sustrans with support from Dr Adrian Davis, Living Streets and The TAS Partnership Limited. There is a sign up to be notified when new evidence, case studies or tools are added to the toolbox.
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Step Count Challenge launches for autumn 2017
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Paths for All has just launched its autumn Step Count Challenge. Kicking off on 30 October, the challenge runs for four weeks and aims to get people walking more in and around the working day.
Paths for All has been running the challenge for five years, and over this time more than eight and a half billion steps, equal to almost four million miles, have been recorded. During this year’s spring challenge, over 963 teams, consisting of 4,663 participants, took part.
If you are interested in finding out more, or registering to take part, visit the Step Count Challenge website.
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Translating green infrastructure research into decision making and practice
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The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has over recent years promoted research in Green Infrastructure. A recent call for a knowledge exchange fellow for urban green infrastructure was opened in March 2017.
A survey was launched in preparation of this and the results have been made available for a wider audience of green infrastructure practitioners, decision makers and policy makers.
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Award-winning Network Rail infrastructure project boosts biodiversity
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The construction of the Bermondsey Dive Under, a new railway junction to the east of London Bridge station, has increased biodiversity in the urban area of Bermondsey by 113%, winning the team a coveted CEEQUAL Excellent award of 96.6%.
The project removed over 21,900 tonnes of contaminated material and eradicated Japanese Knotweed. To increase biodiversity, wildflower planting and green walls were installed to offset vegetation lost in the process of removing the contaminated soils.
The project installed 765m2 of green walls under arches and access ramps, and it planted wildflowers on the railway embankments to create green corridors and stepping stones to the wider area.
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An assessment of the UK green roof market
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Green roofs are now a mainstream technology, helping adapt towns and cities to climate change, providing habitat for nature, reducing urban heat islands and indoor temperatures, managing storm water and supporting healthy and resilient communities.
But until now there has been no understanding of the value of the green roof market to the industry or the national economy. This report provides a detailed understanding of how the UK green roof industry is performing in terms of market size.
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Urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services
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Human health and subjective wellbeing (emotional states and life satisfaction) can be considered the overarching outcome of optimal ecosystem service provision. Ecosystem services are the benefits provided to humans by natural systems that range from food and water to recreation and climate regulation.
This brief provides an overview of the ecosystem service contributions of urban biodiversity and green infrastructure and the challenges for improving their provision.
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