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Minister pledges £60 million for eco-towns

Housing Minister John Healey is backing the country’s biggest ever green home programme by pledging to build more than 600 new eco-homes.

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Eco-towns

Wanted: your top five books

Landscape magazine aims to discover the industry’s most influential authors

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books

Green light for £50m Manchester scheme

Glenn Howells Architects has go ahead for redevelopments on Elisabeth House in St Peter’s Square.

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Events

  • Sustainable Landscape Series
    • 1 Dec 2009 — 23 Mar 2010
    • Room TC001, University of Gloucestershire, Francis Close Hall Campus, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AZ
    • The Sustainable Landscape Series, sponsored by Arup Landscape, is a free public lecture series exploring issues of sustainability, sustainable development and sustainable living. Read more
  • SLIC’s 2010 YouTube film competition
    • 2 Feb 2010 — 31 May 2010
    • Student Landscape Institute Council
    • The SLIC's (Student Landscape Institute Council) brief is to create a film no more than three minutes long outlining how landscape architects, managers or scientists can make the landscape work for us. Students can look at anything from urban regeneration, changing use of rural landscapes or how to mitigate climate change and are encouraged to be as broad in scope as possible, they may wish to show something happening right now or in 30 years time and you can use any medium; animation, film, stop motion, etc.  Read more
  • Green infrastructure seminar
    • 4 February 2010
    • Barceló Edinburgh Carlton Hotel
    • Following the popularity of the seminar held in Cardiff, the Landscape Institute will host a free breakfast seminar in Edinburgh. Green infrastructure is a critical approach to landscape management, design and planning. As part of the Landscape Institute's dissemination of its work in this area, the LI and WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) are delighted to invite you to attend a free breakfast seminar which looks at how this approach has been developed at a policy level and how it is being implemented locally. Read more