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Landcare Research sustainability and society researcher.
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Living roofs at the Auckland Botanic Gardens
Robyn Simcock and Elizabeth Fassman have installed funky 'living roofs' on the entrance to the children's garden and toilet block at the Auckland Botanic Gardens. These living roofs are not just Continue Reading...
Green roofs
Green roofs are roofs covered with living plants, usually growing in light-weight substrates. Green roofs have a long history, think of Irish/Icelandic sod roofs, burial mounds and the hanging to Continue Reading...
Raingardens
Water is becoming a costly and diminishing resource – to be harvested and re-used rather than disposed of into stormwater pipes and our harbours as fast as possible. As our awareness of the impacts Continue Reading...
Creating a NZ native Greenroof
The Waitakare City Council approached Landcare Research to help design and monitor a green roof on their civic building in Henderson. They wanted a roof planted in native plants, which was aesthetic Continue Reading...
Creating Sustainable Homes
Learning to turn a cold old house into a sustainable healthy home. We wanted to retrofit a 1950s state house to improve the lives of the family who lived there and to significantly impr Continue Reading...
What on Earth is LIUDD?
Can we design cities to cleanse urban waterways and increase NZ's biodiversity? Low Impact Urban Design and Development (LIUDD) is an approach which works with nature, using design features such as Continue Reading...
Raintanks for Stormwater Management
How do you control flooding through nature and the home rain tank? Glencourt Place is a suburban neighbourhood in the North Shore, Auckland. The area lacked any official stormwater reticulatio Continue Reading...