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🌿Your Quick Planting Guide 1 : Mastering Hypnum plumaeforme🌿 Let’s explore the fascinating world of Hypnum plumaeforme, or sheet moss—an excellent choice for vivarium materials and vibrant green wall designs! This moss thrives in moist environments, commonly found in forests and wetlands, and features long, pointed leaves that make it easy to identify. To grow your own Hypnum plumaeforme moss pot, place it in a bright, shaded area. When watering, mist the wall or surrounding air instead of directly spraying the moss to maintain humidity without soaking it. Ensure good airflow for a healthy growing environment. Are you ready to take on the challenge of growing beautiful, healthy moss? With a little care, you’ll cultivate a thriving mini-ecosystem that brings a touch of nature into your space! https://lnkd.in/dp5eePEu #Moss #sustainability #EcoFriendly #Biodiversity #GreenBuilding #EnvironmentalImpact #CodeOfNature #ClimateAction #GreenTech #EcoDesign #Terraform #Restoration #GreenFuture #Plant #Terrarium #MossWalls

🌿Your Quick Planting Guide 1 : Mastering Hypnum plumaeforme🌿 Let’s explore the fascinating world of Hypnum plumaeforme, or sheet moss—an excellent choice for vivarium materials and vibrant green wall designs! This moss thrives in moist environments, commonly found in forests and wetlands, and features long, pointed leaves that make it easy to identify. To grow your own Hypnum plumaeforme moss pot, place it in a bright, shaded area. When watering, mist the wall or surrounding air instead of directly spraying the moss to maintain humidity without soaking it. Ensure good airflow for a healthy growing environment. Are you ready to take on the challenge of growing beautiful, healthy moss? With a little care, you’ll cultivate a thriving mini-ecosystem that brings a touch of nature into your space! https://lnkd.in/dnUzyRdF #Moss #sustainability #EcoFriendly #Biodiversity #GreenBuilding #EnvironmentalImpact #CodeOfNature #ClimateAction #GreenTech #EcoDesign #Terraform #Restoration #GreenFuture #Plant #Terrarium #MossWalls

🇫🇮 🐝💡Exciting news from Finland: The city of Lahti is pioneering pollinator-friendly urban lighting. They've installed 12 special streetlights in a local nature reserve that filter out blue-spectrum light, mimicking natural nighttime conditions for our buzzing friends. This innovative approach aims to prevent confusion among pollinators, ensuring they can navigate and pollinate effectively. By shifting to a warmer light spectrum, Lahti is taking a significant step towards harmonising urban development with nature's needs. This pilot project showcases how simple, thoughtful changes can make a big difference for biodiversity. It's a shining example of how cities can adapt to support local ecosystems while meeting human needs. #UrbanEcology #PollinatorProtection #SustainableCities #InnovationForNature

Happy #ecofriendlyfriday! Today's green term defined is "Vegetated Roof". Did you know that the concept of vegetative rooves have been around since the 1960s? They have become more popular with the benefits of added insulation, reduced storm-water runoff, habitat creation, and protection of roof membranes. They also benefit the reduction of heat island impacts in the urban setting. https://lnkd.in/enrcRbfc

Insights to landscapes that adapt and foster local resiliency. "Remember a key rule of ecology: nature’s resilience comes from functional redundancy. Every species plays a role, even if we don’t fully understand it yet. Biological insurance means nature doubles up on ecosystem services, allowing ecosystems to fail safely and recover—the essence of resilience. By diversifying your plant palette and supporting local native plant growers, you create a more resilient, future-proof landscape."

Your roof can promote biodiversity, that’s right! 🌿 In promoting biodiversity on green roofs, three critical factors emerge as primary influencers: 🌱 vegetation type, 🌱 growing medium depth, and 🌱 variation in plant height and spacing. The composition of plant life on green roofs plays a pivotal role in fostering biodiversity. Intensive roofs, characterized by a diverse array of plant types and structural complexity, tend to exhibit higher biodiversity compared to monoculture roofs. The debate between using native versus imported species persists, with considerations for long-term success and specific habitat requirements. 🌼🦋 Furthermore, variations in growing medium depth contribute significantly to the potential for biodiversity promotion on green roofs. Deeper growing mediums provide ample habitat for a broader range of plants and animals due to their enhanced water and nutrient retention capacities. Conversely, shallow growing mediums common in extensive green roofs pose challenges, albeit still supporting some native species. 🌿💧 Designers can manipulate growing medium depth to simulate various habitats, from forest understory to riverbank, thus expanding the ecological niches available on green roofs. 🌲🏞️ Structural diversity, achieved through a combination of plant composition and physical features, represents another avenue for enhancing biodiversity on green roofs. By integrating diverse microhabitats and creating shaded, damp areas, designers can attract a wider array of invertebrates and potentially support nesting and breeding for birds and other animals. 🦜 Intensive roofs with varied plant types and surface structures demonstrate superior biodiversity outcomes, alongside benefits such as reduced stormwater runoff and surface temperatures. 🌧️☀️ Green up the roof, the cities, the world! 🌍💚 ______ #diadem #greenroofs #sustainability #innovation #greenbuilding #architecture #linkedin #biodiversity #plants

🌿 Your roof can promote biodiversity? That’s right! 🌿 In promoting biodiversity on green roofs, three critical factors emerge as primary influencers: 🌱 Vegetation type, 🌱 Growing medium depth, and 🌱 Variation in plant height and spacing. The composition of plant life on green roofs plays a pivotal role in fostering biodiversity. Intensive roofs, characterized by a diverse array of plant types and structural complexity, tend to exhibit higher biodiversity compared to monoculture roofs. The debate between using native versus imported species persists, with considerations for long-term success and specific habitat requirements. 🌼🦋 Furthermore, variations in growing medium depth contribute significantly to the potential for biodiversity promotion on green roofs. Deeper growing mediums provide ample habitat for a broader range of plants and animals due to their enhanced water and nutrient retention capacities. Conversely, shallow growing mediums common in extensive green roofs pose challenges, albeit still supporting some native species. 🌿💧 Designers can manipulate growing medium depth to simulate various habitats, from forest understory to riverbank, thus expanding the ecological niches available on green roofs. 🌲🏞️ Structural diversity, achieved through a combination of plant composition and physical features, represents another avenue for enhancing biodiversity on green roofs. By integrating diverse microhabitats and creating shaded, damp areas, designers can attract a wider array of invertebrates and potentially support nesting and breeding for birds and other animals. 🦜 Intensive roofs with varied plant types and surface structures demonstrate superior biodiversity outcomes, alongside benefits such as reduced stormwater runoff and surface temperatures. 🌧️☀️ Green up the roof, the cities, the world! 🌍💚 #diadem #greenroofs #sustainability #innovation #greenbuilding #architecture #linkedin #biodiversity #plants

It’s October 1st, and harvest season is upon us. Fortunately, with a hybrid greenhouse, we can harvest all year round. Similar to an indoor environment, Ahara’s greenhouse bays can be blacked out so sunlight cannot penetrate the plant canopy. By controlling the plants' exposure to sunlight, we can mimic the natural reduction in sunlight that occurs in nature. Furthermore, we have supplemental lighting for shorter days when there is not enough natural sunlight for the plants. Like the blackout shades, the supplemental lighting allows us to control the amount of light exposure to the plant. Having the option to reduce sunlight exposure or introduce supplemental lighting is what allows us to harvest all year round. It’s something that wouldn’t be possible without a hybrid greenhouse. To learn more about our facility, visit www.ahara.pt!

When it comes to choosing the right trees to plant in our landscapes, we have to consider going beyond just the aesthetics; sustainability and diversity must also be top of mind. Native trees, meaning trees that occur naturally in the ecosystems they are being planted in, play a crucial role in maintaining ecological balance. Here's why you should consider planting native trees whenever you are planning or installing a landscape project: 🌳 Ecosystem Adaptation: Native trees have evolved over many centuries to thrive in our local climates. They work adaptively with the soil and water that is present as well as other plant communities to establish themselves, sequester carbon, and control erosion naturally by forming strong roots that hold the soil and nutrients in place. 🌼 Biodiversity Support: Native trees provide pollinator food and habitat and can create the shade that many biological communities need to hold onto water and shield themselves from the sun. Native trees do not spread and invade the same way some invasive and exotic tree species can, so they do not disrupt ecosystems as they reproduce. 💧 Water Conservation: Trees hold onto water in their root systems and large vascular structures. Native trees are even more drought-tolerant and require less water once established than cultivar or exotic species. Their roots have evolved to deepen in their local soil conditions, thus removing the need for expensive and resource-heavy irrigation systems to thrive. 🌲🌲🌲 Planting trees at any scale can provide these benefits and many more. Whether you're planting a sapling in your backyard or designing massive landscaping projects that span many acres, the importance of planting native species cannot be overstated. Celebrate Arbor Day by planting a native tree. The best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago, the second best time to plant a tree is today. By choosing natives, you'll be benefiting the environment today and living things for generations to come. #ArborDay #HealtheEarth #Sustainability #NativePlants #GreenMission #Pollinators

I recently saw a post by Biophilic Design (and re-posted it) about the Cooling effect measured at a pocket forest in Cambridge, MA. A huge 27.8°C difference from hottest to coolest! At just 2 years of growth, it already boasts trees as tall as 5.3m, and a 95% survival rate. Especially impressive considering it started off as a landfill! The thing I really enjoy about this project though? A fantastic write up by SUGi on their website about the project. Plenty of images, well presented data and some lovely examples of the biodiversity at play in the relatively young forest. More projects need to be doing the same! What I would like to see more of? More long term temperature data, and maybe more data about the soil, and other biodiversity metrics over time. All things we can help with in future projects. https://lnkd.in/ePniAyU6 #MiyawakiForest | #biodiversity | #Forest | #LivableClimate