As you have probably seen from our socials and website, last November we opened the doors for the beginning stage of our first BlueGreen Glasgow project, The Govan Wetlands. It was a great experience meeting members of the community who are interested in our vision of creating a place for nature based solutions within an […]
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By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director After the success of our first ‘Rewilding Weekend’ last week, we decided that we want to organise more planting days… So we invite everyone (those that didn´t have the chance to come around yet and those that want to plant more!!!) to come along and help us
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By Chris Eccles, Seawater Solutions Environmental Coordinator After 8 weeks of hard work building our site we were delighted to invite the local community of Govan and beyond to the Govan Wetlands for our Re-wilding weekend, helping us plant over half a million wetland plant species! We’re so grateful to everyone that made it out,
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By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director On the 29th of October and on the 5th and 7th of November, Blue Green Glasgow will be having a series of Sessions on Nature-based Solutions! We invite delegates, policy shapers, and people from all over the world to come and experience climate adaptation first hand! Multiple
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By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director Delegates invited to see wetland-based climate solutions first-hand Glasgow, Scotland. As an estimated 30,000 delegates talk about how to address climate change at COP26, local company Blue Green Glasgow, will be in action putting the finishing touches on Phase-1 of The Govan Wetlands Project that uses a
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By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director On the 23rd and 24th of this month Blue Green Glasgow will be having a rewilding weekend and everyone is invited along to help plant half a million wetland plants! It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about the project and have a tour around the
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By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director We are very excited to present Blue Green Glasgow and the Glasgow Wetlands Project! Blue Green Glasgow is a community interest company restoring post-industrial land in Glasgow by building wetlands, or blue-green, ecosystems for climate adaptation, engaging communities, and the creation of sustainable jobs. Ahead of COP26
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By Chris Eccles, Seawater Solutions Project Coordinator (Africa) Recently you may have noticed some different information coming out the Seawater Solutions media channels from what we normally have. That’s because this year we were lucky enough to participate in a class run by the University of Strathclyde Engineering department which brings students and industry partners
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By Hilary Blackman, MSc Environmental Engineering student at University of Strathclyde Hello, Hilary here! As part of a collaboration with industry between the University of Strathclyde and Seawater Solutions, I had the opportunity to study the management and creation of wetlands as places for carbon sequestration and accreditation. The project matched well with my previous
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By Tom Whillis, MSc Environmental Engineering student at University of Strathclyde My name is Tom Whillis and I am studying an MSc in Environmental Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. I am interested in environmental issues and how engineering and design can be used to help combat these problems. As part of my degree I
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