Blue Green UK
Promoting the use of Best Technical Knowledge to support Blue-Greening in our cities
RECENT SITE ACTIVITY
The Forum has been launched! Please use this to engage in the Blue Green debate.
A "Questions in Parliament" section has been added to the Forum page. See Lord Berkeley's letter March 18th 2015 'Are OFWAT and CCW up to their jobs of protecting the interests of consumers?'
New discussion points and material: GRO32, ACA23, IND16, GRO31, GRO30
NEWS
Mar 2016: Would Brexit mean the end of green targets?
Mar 2016: London needs integrated water management strategy, says report
Feb 2016: Evidence emerging of the Government’s desire to block science it doesn’t like
Feb 2016: Royal visit for Welsh Water's RainScape scheme
Feb 2016: Newcastle commits to Blue-Green Infrastructure plan
Dec 2015: Thames sewage: UK faces up to prospect of multimillion-pound EU fines
Dec 2015: COP21: World leaders agree legally-binding climate deal in Paris
Dec 2015: UK has 'lost world climate leadership role' by axing domestic green policies
Nov 2015: Blue Green Dream scoops 1st prize at the BusinessGreen Technology Awards!
Oct 2015: Copenhagen fights flooding with flooding
Oct 2015: Green building sector outpacing overall construction growth
Oct 2015: Water companies pocket £800m windfall, NAO finds
Sep 2015: Horizon 2020 - 2016-17 work programmes include water and blue-green infrastructure
Aug 2015: Cardiff researchers in project to make cities 'greener'
Aug 2015: River Thames now fit for porpoise, says wildlife study
Jul 2015: ECJ ruling clarifies “deterioration” under Water Frame-work Directive
Jul 2015: London economy vulnerable to climate change, assembly report finds
Jul 2015: How and where did UK lose city-sized area of green space in just six years?
Jul 2015: Prince Charles: rewire the global economy to stop climate change
Jun 2015: MMSD awards grants for green infrastructure projects
Jun 2015: Do Green Spaces In Cities Help Close "Well-Being Gaps" Between Rich And Poor?
Jun 2015: Netherlands ordered to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Jun 2015: A new kind of water infrastructure begins to permeate Detroit
Jun 2015: Pope Francis blames 'human selfishness' for global warming
Jun 2015: Interview: CCWater chair Alan Lovell chats to Utility Week
Jun 2015: Green spaces improve schoolchildren's mental development, study finds
Jun 2015: Urban commons have radical potential – it's not just about community gardens
May 2015: Growth at all costs: climate change, fossil fuel subsidies and the Treasury
May 2015: Simple projects deliver the best results
Apr 2015: Air pollution may cause more UK deaths than previously thought, say scientists
Apr 2015: UK Infrastructure: A lost cause? Maybe not
Mar 2015: France decrees new rooftops must be covered in plants or solar panels
Feb 2015: Global warming is causing more extreme storms
Feb 2015: South West takes first steps in Water Sensitive Urban Design
Feb 2015: Green infrastructure: from encouraging examples to a joined-up approach?
Feb 2015: Water bills fall but Thames customers will pay extra for ‘super sewer
Jan 2015: New data shows Thames meet EU directive. So is Tideway Tunnel still needed?
Jan 2015: David Attenborough - Leaders are in denial about climate change
Dec 2014: The 2015 climate change target - 192 nations, two weeks of negotiations and one world to save
Dec 2014: Biodiversity - life - a status report
Dec 2014: Thames Water unbowed by fresh super-sewer claims
Dec 2014: PRESS RELEASE Analysis of metrics obtained from the Environment Agency under Freedom of Information Request reveals the Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT) is redundant (linked report IND14)
Dec 2014: Water bills to smash £400 a year barrier despite regulator taking action
Nov 2014: Planned London super sewer branded waste of time and taxpayer money then TTTs response to today's Guardian article
Nov 2014: Water remunicipalisation as a global trend
Nov 2014: New York plants curbside gardens to soak up storm-water runoff
Nov 2014: Hamburg at forefront of global drive to reverse privatisation of city services
Nov 2014: Cornish innovators offer London sewage solution
Oct 2014: "Significant weakening' of plans to manage flood risk from new development
Oct 2014: London's sewer crisis: why the supersewer is a big, expensive answer to a simple problem
Sep 2014: 'Super sewer' in London and south-east could add £80 to water bills
Sep 2014: London's 'super sewer' gets the go ahead
Aug 2014: LBC discussion with Larry Lamb on TTT Part 1 : Part 2 (www.saveyourriverside.org)
Jul 2014: 4 ways to take green cities to the next level
Jul 2014: Soaking the customer - Thames Water's £4 billion sewage money grab
Mar 2014: FT - Thames Water's high stakes project is poor value
Feb 2014: Private Eye - Money Down the Drain
Feb 2014: Heat related deaths will rise 257% by 2050 because of climate change
Feb 2014: Flat roofs may be the answer to managing urban floods
Feb 2014: The Government needs to call in the flood experts
Feb 2014: Air pollution - European commission launches legal action against the UK
Feb 2014: What Britain has to do if it doesn't want to live with floods (no, it's not dredging)
Feb 2014: Private Eye - Thames Water's great drain robbery
Nov 2013: Cameron orders examination on how to force water companies to cut bills
Oct 2013: Ministers challenged on validity of Govt decision on Thames supersewer
Oct 2013: Bloomberg - Thames Sewer Plan May Be Triple Industry Average Permission being sought to place White Paper here
Sept 2013: London super sewer 'should be scrapped in favour of cheaper projects'
Sept 2013: Ofwat challenges Thames Water's push to increase bills by 8%
July 2013: Average household water bill to rise by 3.5pc to £388 a year
July 2013: Water companies told to stop siphoning off cash to foreign owners
July 2013: Droughts could hit food production in England in 2020s
July 2013: London "greenest city" in Europe
July 2013: Scientists attribute extreme weather to man-made climate change
June 2013: London 2062: Green v Concrete Infrastructure
June 2013: Philadelphia water management: from grey to green infrastructure [click here for Guardian article response]
June 2013: City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County ditch tunnel plans for alternatives
June 2013: Thames Water wants to raise average bill by £100 before 2020
May 2013: Greater London SuDS Debate [click here for short version of Blue Green dream presentation]
Mar 2013: ITN News Report - London's Super Sewer is Wrong Solution
Mar 2013: Court reserves UK air quality ruling
Mar 2013: The case for a need for an independent enquiry on Blue Green solutions for London
Mar 2013: Mayor details new goal in Seattle’s stormwater management
Dec 2012: Expert casts doubt on Thames Water super sewer plan
Dec 2012: Thames Water under further pressure to rethink supersewer plans
Mar 2009: Away with the grey