Yesterday I spent the day at Ecobuild, where the LI was running our seminars to kick off the ‘Why Invest in Landscape?’ campaign.
There were excellent presentations from LI members whose case studies feature in the Why Invest in Landscape? campaign document. The document itself continues to fly off the shelves, with requests coming in for free copies from many countries overseas as well as across the UK.
I would like every LI practice to have copies to give to their clients, and every landscape architect to have three spare copies in their coat pocket, so please keep your orders coming in. You can have as many as you like, and they are all free.
The later part of the day at our Ecobuild seminar series was devoted to green infrastructure, again with some very interesting case studies. Green Infrastructure continues its steady rise up the political agenda, offering more and more opportunities to landscape architects who are able to make effective us of it as a context for their work.
The European Union has just opened a consultation on GI which is intended to lead to an EU-wide strategy on green infrastructure. The LI will be responding to this over the coming month.
The LI continues to collect new friends at a dizzying rate on Twitter – one of whom is Housing Minister Grant Shapps MP.
We have only been using twitter for five months but are rapidly approaching 1,000 followers, many of whom are not LI members but people in other professions and other countries who are interested in what we have to say. If you are a twitter user and are not yet following us, please add @talklandscape to your following list.
If you have yet to take the plunge with twitter and are not sure what to do, you can go to twitter.com and follow the simple instructions to set up an account. You will be asked if you want to follow any twitter feeds and you can then follow @talklandscape. For free!