{"id":84,"date":"2013-07-16T23:02:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T23:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/?p=84"},"modified":"2013-07-16T23:02:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T23:02:54","slug":"mingling-with-bristols-greenies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/2013\/07\/16\/mingling-with-bristols-greenies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mingling with Bristol&#8217;s greenies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been to the monthly Bristol Green Mingle with Charles and Fi. It was the first time I&#8217;d been to a mingle and I didn&#8217;t know quite what to expect \u2013 but unsurprisingly, it was just people (specifically Bristol\u2019s greenies) drinking, eating and chatting. I met an interesting mix of people including local MPs, an ecologist and the director of the Bristol Green Capital initiative (who\u2019s become a local hero after Bristol won the European Green Capital Award earlier this year). As well as being an enjoyable, relaxed and interesting evening it was also very useful \u2013 I gained a few handy contacts who seemed to know something (if not a lot) relevant to my internship project.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m coming to the end of my preparatory research before starting the write up the report\/ action plan framework for city \u2018greening\u2019, although I feel like there\u2019s so much that I&#8217;ve still not uncovered \u2013 there is just so much out there on it! I just need to bring it together. In outline I\u2019m preparing an evidenced case for the literal \u2018greening\u2019 of cities (via planting trees, installing green roofs, creating wetlands etc.) for multi-functional benefits such as increased habitat connectivity, better water management, air purification and climate amelioration. There are some truly innovative and magnificent ways to \u2018green\u2019 urban areas &#8211; vertical gardens for example (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yFZn1DYCz2U\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yFZn1DYCz2U<\/a>), which beg the question: why aren&#8217;t our cities already greener?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_85\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/files\/2013\/07\/waterfront.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/files\/2013\/07\/waterfront-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bordeaux Quay - venue for the Green Mingle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been to the monthly Bristol Green Mingle with Charles and Fi. It was the first time I&#8217;d been to a mingle and I didn&#8217;t know quite what to expect \u2013 but unsurprisingly, it was just people (specifically Bristol\u2019s greenies) drinking, eating and chatting. I met an interesting mix of people including local MPs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lydia-sheldrake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}