CABE have launched a new green infrastructure discussion document 'Grey to Green: How we shift funding and skills to green our cities'.

CABE - the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment - say "Green infrastructure does not receive anything like the investment or management that goes into grey infrastructure. Grey to Green will fuel a debate about whether this is smart, given the dangers of climate change and the opportunities to improve public health. It also reveals the urgent need for more people, with the right skills, to manage the living landscape of our towns and cities. Grey to Green provides fresh ideas and evidence, showing how we could design and manage places in radically different ways. It will be of interest to anyone involved in greening the built environment, but above all to the people taking decisions about where to commit public money at a local and a national level."

We agree that more people, with the right skills, need to be enabled to manage the living landscape of our towns and cities, and thing permaculture design has a big contribution to make, especially around making Green Infrastructure skills and thinking more widely available to the public.

Read the CABE report pdf here.

The LAND project received another boost today with a new £10,000 grant. This secures the rest of the match funding needed for year two. The grant was given by the Garfield Weston Foundation, and will enable us to host regional events and support groups to visit demonstration and learning projects. Andy Goldring, Chief Executive said "This is a welcome boost for a brilliant project - LAND is shaping up to be a really valuable new network that will help engage people from all walks of life in permaculture."

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