How to make your house and garden more tranquil – tips from an acoustics expert
Whether it's cars passing nearby, a neighbour's blaring music or the constant drone of a lawnmower, the trouble with sound is that – unlike light – it can be hard to block out completely.
Greg Watts, Professor of environmental acoustics, University of Bradford •
conversation
June 29, 2020 • ~6 min
June 29, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: health wellbeing gardens home noise house peace traffic-noise silence
Why you may need to encourage social distancing around your bird feeder
Garden bird feeders and water baths could be hotspots for infectious disease transmission.
Harisree Paramel Nair, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology, Anglia Ruskin University •
conversation
May 28, 2020 • ~6 min
May 28, 2020 • ~6 min
Tags: birds bird-feeding zoonotic-diseases gardens
Solar farms, power stations and water treatment plants can be attractions instead of eyesores
Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them.
Margaret Birney Vickery, Lecturer in Art History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• conversation
May 15, 2020 • ~9 min
May 15, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: solar-power new-york infrastructure gardens renewable-energy landscape-architecture design denmark connecticut water-treatment aesthetics solar-farms
How to discover the wildlife wonders of your own garden
Domestic gardens offer an oases for urban wildlife, and are a sight for sore eyes during lockdown.
Ian D. Rotherham, Professor of Environmental Geography and Reader in Tourism and Environmental Change, Sheffield Hallam University
• conversation
April 7, 2020 • ~7 min
April 7, 2020 • ~7 min
Tags: covid-19 birds self-isolation uk-wildlife urban-ecology gardens
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