A competition offering £250,000 to the person who could create the best plans for a new ‘garden city’ that would help solve Britain’s housing crisis closed...
A new study analysing the impact of urbanisation on biodiversity has found that protecting green spaces and restoring plant species in cities could allow developed areas...
City cycling, visiting green spaces or parks, contributing to local community initiatives and visiting heritage sites: just four ways to be more responsible when visiting new...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
Former mayor New York City Michael Bloomberg has been named as the new United Nations (UN) envoy for cities and climate change. The billionaire businessman and...
The humble bench: a place to rest your feet or a catalyst for urban renewal where community happens? Robert Dalton argues the case for the latter....
Leo Johnson answers 20 questions on life, sustainability and everything. Johnson is a sustainability expert and a partner at global consulting firm PwC, following the acquisition...
A record number of children will be in British schools by 2020. Meanwhile, the number of people living in urban areas is due to double by...
New research has linked air pollution with a higher risk of heart attacks and other coronary events. The study also found that exposure to particulate matter below...
The cities of tomorrow can learn from the example of Singapore by embracing density in order to be more resource efficient, says a new report. The...
Emily Harper looks at the billion dollar problems, solutions and reality when it comes to the apparent face-off between sustainability and urbanisation. Food and shelter. These...
A sustainability manifesto for businesses and cities, Michael Blowfield and Leo Johnson’s Turnaround Challenge: Business & the City of the Future outlines the steps required towards...
Cities are often criticised for being crowded, dirty places, over consuming and under providing. People are crammed in, and there they are left to build their...
Seven out of 10 European cities have no formal plans to adapt to climate change, and one in three have no plans to reduce greenhouse gas...
Against a backdrop of urbanisation and increasing environmental and social threats, Miles Davey, co-founder and director of Lewis Davey, writes about the future evolution of our...