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About this event:

This talk will discuss circular ecomony approaches in the landscape industry and how this will reduce the impact of the gardens we design and build on the environment?

The talk will be given by Nick Ribbons, Sector manager (Construction) for Zero Waste Scotland. He engages with construction and demolition sector professionals and supports companies to embed circular construction, circular procurement, and resource efficiency in their businesses.

This is the second in a series of webinars that will explore sustainable design solutions for the landscape industry in response to the climate crisis.

Who is this suitable for?

All stakeholders in the landscape industry including garden designers, landscape architects, landscape contractors, and suppliers

Who are we?

Garden designers who are passionate about doing our bit to reduce the environmental impact of our designs and the gardens we create.

This event is brought to you by Scotland's regional coordinators for the Society of Garden Designers and Zero Waste Scotland.

Sustainable Design Solutions in Response to the Climate Crisis: A Series of Webinars for the garden and landscape design and build industry.

This series of events has been orchestrated to explore how our industry can reduce both its environmental impact and become more sustainable.

All industries need to respond to the climate crisis. For our industry, we can move away from wasteful, unsustainable practices, be more mindful of what materials we use, conserve precious topsoil, collect and store rainfall, and improve biodiversity above and below the ground. Together, this will help improve people's health and well-being, and importantly the health of the planet. We are in an important position to educate our clients and help them to address the climate crisis too.

The Series will be a combination of talks by leaders in the field and delegate participation. It will offer practical take-home pointers to create gardens that have a low environmental impact and that are biodiverse.

The interactive talks will cover mitigation (reducing embodied carbon/ carbon emissions), adaptation to a changing climate, reducing waste, protecting natural resources, and improving biodiversity.

Look out for other webinars in the series, which will include:

1. The circular economy: designing out waste, Zero Waste Scotland
2. Permaculture design: a tool for designing holistically for people and the environment
3. Designing for deconstruction
4. Alternative materials
5. Old materials, new methods
6. Responsible garden lighting - is there such a thing?
7. A garden for wildlife: Rewilding our gardens
8. Soil life and diversity

Zero Waste Scotland is The Scottish Governments representative body to deliver a Circular Economy change in Scotland. A Circular Economy approach is much more than a move to towards more recycling, it’s an approach that cuts across all sectors in Scotland that values all the resources we use and looks at value from a whole life cost perspective.

Zero Waste Scotland is funded by the Scottish Government and the European Regional Development Fund to deliver the Resource Efficient Scotland Programme. The Resource Efficient Scotland Construction SME Advice and Support Service offers free advice and technical support to Scottish businesses, helping them embed circular economy principles into the design and construction of our built environment. The Service aims to contribute significantly to the Scottish Government’s strategic economic objectives, climate change, energy efficiency and zero waste targets.