Tidal energy harnesses the power of ocean tides but has limitations in its viability and economic stability. While tidal energy could work well in areas with extensive coastline like Santa Barbara, the infrastructure required like dams would disrupt water and wildlife habitats. Tidal energy plants also only operate for half the day and are costly to build, maintain, and have low energy output relative to their size. Overall, tidal energy has potential as a renewable source but has significant disadvantages that make other renewable options more practical currently.
The London Housing Strategy aims to address the shortage of affordable housing in London through increasing housing supply, supporting working Londoners, and improving housing conditions. It sets targets to increase annual housing construction to 42,000 homes and build 100,000 affordable homes over the Mayor's two terms. The strategy focuses on five priorities: boosting housing supply, better supporting working Londoners, improving private renting, securing long-term funding for housing, and accelerating the pace of construction. It also aims to help the homeless, bring empty homes back into use, and ensure high quality housing standards.
The document discusses the aims and benefits of PDHPE (Personal Development, Health and Physical Education) in primary school. It aims to develop students' knowledge, understanding, skills, values and attitudes to lead healthy, active lives. Students benefit physically, mentally, socially and emotionally through PDHPE. The PDHPE curriculum covers topics like active lifestyles, dance, games, growth and development, gymnastics, relationships, safe living, and personal health choices.
MBAC 5101 Chakmakian, Hanson, McGillis, Patsula - Group PresentationJosh McGillis
iHuman was founded in 1997 to offer creativity and care programs for high-risk youth. It focuses on life skills development through art mentorship and outreach crisis intervention. The document discusses iHuman's history, programs, community needs, costs, goals, social mission, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and vision for the future.
This document discusses various foods like chocolate, hot dogs, vegetables, and pizza. It also mentions milk and links between being obese or undernourished with health issues like stomach problems and heart attacks. Several links are provided relating to games and videos on related topics.
This document outlines a plan to restructure a company's operations to help it adapt to changes in the market. It proposes consolidating three business units into two new divisions to improve collaboration. It also recommends centralizing some administrative functions and reducing middle management roles to cut costs in the near term while still allowing for growth opportunities.
This document provides information about Bart Simpson and his family using present simple sentences. It introduces Bart, his father Homer, his mother Marge, his sisters Lisa and Maggie. It also mentions Bart's friend and pet dog. The document uses affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences to practice present simple tense in English. It focuses on the verbs "to be" and provides examples of subjects like I, you, we, they followed by "am", "is", "are", "aren't", "isn't" and "aren't".
Tidal energy harnesses the power of ocean tides but has limitations in its viability and economic stability. While tidal energy could work well in areas with extensive coastline like Santa Barbara, the infrastructure required like dams would disrupt water and wildlife habitats. Tidal energy plants also only operate for half the day and are costly to build, maintain, and have low energy output relative to their size. Overall, tidal energy has potential as a renewable source but has significant disadvantages that make other renewable options more practical currently.
The London Housing Strategy aims to address the shortage of affordable housing in London through increasing housing supply, supporting working Londoners, and improving housing conditions. It sets targets to increase annual housing construction to 42,000 homes and build 100,000 affordable homes over the Mayor's two terms. The strategy focuses on five priorities: boosting housing supply, better supporting working Londoners, improving private renting, securing long-term funding for housing, and accelerating the pace of construction. It also aims to help the homeless, bring empty homes back into use, and ensure high quality housing standards.
The document discusses the aims and benefits of PDHPE (Personal Development, Health and Physical Education) in primary school. It aims to develop students' knowledge, understanding, skills, values and attitudes to lead healthy, active lives. Students benefit physically, mentally, socially and emotionally through PDHPE. The PDHPE curriculum covers topics like active lifestyles, dance, games, growth and development, gymnastics, relationships, safe living, and personal health choices.
MBAC 5101 Chakmakian, Hanson, McGillis, Patsula - Group PresentationJosh McGillis
iHuman was founded in 1997 to offer creativity and care programs for high-risk youth. It focuses on life skills development through art mentorship and outreach crisis intervention. The document discusses iHuman's history, programs, community needs, costs, goals, social mission, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and vision for the future.
This document discusses various foods like chocolate, hot dogs, vegetables, and pizza. It also mentions milk and links between being obese or undernourished with health issues like stomach problems and heart attacks. Several links are provided relating to games and videos on related topics.
This document outlines a plan to restructure a company's operations to help it adapt to changes in the market. It proposes consolidating three business units into two new divisions to improve collaboration. It also recommends centralizing some administrative functions and reducing middle management roles to cut costs in the near term while still allowing for growth opportunities.
This document provides information about Bart Simpson and his family using present simple sentences. It introduces Bart, his father Homer, his mother Marge, his sisters Lisa and Maggie. It also mentions Bart's friend and pet dog. The document uses affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences to practice present simple tense in English. It focuses on the verbs "to be" and provides examples of subjects like I, you, we, they followed by "am", "is", "are", "aren't", "isn't" and "aren't".
The Mayor is one of the largest public sector landowners in London, having inherited 635 hectares in April 2012. Find out more about this land, and how these assets support our goals.
The Mayor owns over 600 hectares of land and other assets that are used to support priorities around housing, jobs, and economic regeneration. These assets were inherited from the closures of the London Development Agency and London Thames Gateway Development Corporation, as well as from the Homes and Communities Agency. This inherited property portfolio has the capacity to provide 40,000 new homes. The assets range from substantial brownfield development sites to residual interests in major developments and facilities like the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace. The strategy is to work with external parties like local boroughs and developers to create major development opportunities from these assets.
Este documento fornece uma introdução ao software SolidWorks. Ele apresenta o autor Ivo Ferreira da Silva e discute conceitos fundamentais do SolidWorks como modelagem baseada em recursos, modelagem paramétrica, modelagem de sólidos, associatividade e intenção de projeto. O documento também inclui um índice com os tópicos abordados nas lições subsequentes.
The document discusses several leafy vegetable crops grown in India, including amaranth, spinach beet, spinach, New Zealand spinach, and Malabar spinach. It provides details on the botanical classification and origin of each crop. For amaranth and spinach beet, it describes breeding objectives such as disease resistance and yield improvement. It also lists improved varieties that have been developed for some of the crops.
Grafting is an ancient asexual propagation technique where the rootstock and scion from two plants are joined together to form a single plant. The production of grafted vegetable plants first began in Japan and Korea in the late 1920s with watermelons grafted onto pumpkin rootstocks. Now common in parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East, grafting is used to improve traits like disease tolerance, abiotic stress resistance, and yield in important vegetable crops. Modern grafting methods include hole insertion grafting, tongue approach grafting and cleft grafting. Healing chambers are used to promote graft union formation and robotic grafting systems can produce hundreds of grafted plants per hour.
This document provides information on various leafy vegetable crops grown in India, including their botanical classification and origins. It discusses amaranth, spinach beet, spinach, New Zealand spinach, poi/Basella, and fenugreek. For each crop, it outlines key details such as the genus and species, origin, cytology/chromosome number, breeding systems and objectives. It also provides information on improved varieties that have been developed for many of these crops. The document emphasizes the importance of these leafy vegetables in Indian agriculture and cuisine.
This document provides information about bitter gourd and bottle gourd. It discusses the botany, origin, domestication, breeding, and improved varieties of bitter gourd. It describes that bitter gourd is widely cultivated in many countries for its nutrient-rich immature fruits. The document also summarizes key details about the botany and origin of bottle gourd from Africa and Asia. It mentions that bottle gourd is a monoecious vine grown for its tender fruits and used to make sweets.
The Billion Trees Tsunami Afforestation Project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa aims to rehabilitate forests and increase the forest resource base. It establishes central and private nurseries to grow over 500 million saplings, which are planted on 10,000 hectares of land. The project also focuses on protecting newly planted forests by training and hiring local communities as forest guards. Overall, the project has planted over 872 million seedlings across the province by 2017, with a high survival rate of 88.75%.
The National Trust cares for over 200 gardens and parks across the UK. It employs 450 professional gardeners and over 3,900 garden-based volunteers who contribute nearly 40,000 hours per year. The Trust's gardens provide important benefits for both physical and mental health, and are valued spaces for local communities. Through partnerships, the Trust aims to increase access to gardens and ensure their preservation for future generations.
The HSBC Climate Partnership was a 5-year, $100 million program involving over 100,000 people. It worked with environmental organizations on projects around the world that protected forests, improved access to water for 32 million people, and helped 10 cities reduce carbon emissions. The partnership trained over 2,000 HSBC employees as climate champions to educate others and implement sustainability projects. It achieved significant environmental impacts and engaged many HSBC employees in its work.
The HSBC Climate Partnership was a 5-year, $100 million program involving over 100,000 people across 46 projects to address climate change. It involved partnerships between HSBC, The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and WWF. The program expanded access to clean water and protected forests, trained over 2,000 HSBC employees as climate champions, and established a database to track changes in over 150,000 trees across 42 forest areas in 21 countries. The chairman notes that both large and small individual contributions made a difference in tackling climate change through this partnership.
COPHC's 2021 annual report outlines its efforts to make Gwadar a green city in alignment with Pakistan's Clean and Green vision. It established a plant tissue culture lab and greenhouse for research and growing saplings. It successfully trial planted various drought-resistant species across 5000 acres and parks. Plans for 2022 include expanding plantations, raising awareness, and introducing solar power. Key challenges include ensuring a stable water supply and financing for the 10 million tree initiative. COPHC is willing to share its experience to involve all stakeholders in developing a smart, sustainable green Gwadar.
This document discusses a conference held in Liverpool on green infrastructure and parklands. It covers several topics: the importance of green infrastructure for both the economy and the environment; the Atlantic Gateway Parklands initiative and its community funding projects; and Liverpool's green infrastructure framework. It provides examples of specific green infrastructure projects in the Liverpool area and their benefits. In the final section, it emphasizes that sustainability issues are long-term challenges that require ongoing solutions.
Spectrum Community Investment Casebook May 2015lo-respages - LBSuzie Mundell
This document provides an overview of community investment activities undertaken by Spectrum Housing Group in 2014-2015. Some key points:
- £3.16 million of social value was generated through 216 community projects with a budget of £939,000. Additional external funding of £460,000 was also attracted.
- Activities included employment training programs that helped 25 residents into jobs, green space improvements at the Lordshill estate in Southampton, and a gardening club for children in Keeble Road, Bournemouth.
- The community investment work engaged over 13,000 residents through various initiatives focused on employment, health and wellbeing, skills development, and improving neighborhood environments.
The document summarizes the Incredible Edible Brighouse project, which aims to transform an urban space in the deprived Vale Street area into a community food growing and learning space. The project intends to provide opportunities for locals to grow and harvest fresh produce, build community, and promote health and well-being. It supports the council's green space strategy and the Grow Wild initiative, seeking to beautify unused spaces, increase biodiversity, and source food locally and seasonally in an environmentally friendly way.
Community Gardening: Inclusive development and working with the marginalised ...GeoAnitia
The Gathering Tree Community Garden is a joint initiative between three organizations aimed at promoting community collaboration. The garden provides opportunities for marginalized groups to participate in activities that improve quality of life. It has incorporated elements of Australia's National Mental Health Plan, including prevention, recovery programs, and community participation. The garden has succeeded due to collaborative partnerships and a philosophy of community capacity building that supports inclusive decision-making.
The Mayor is one of the largest public sector landowners in London, having inherited 635 hectares in April 2012. Find out more about this land, and how these assets support our goals.
The Mayor owns over 600 hectares of land and other assets that are used to support priorities around housing, jobs, and economic regeneration. These assets were inherited from the closures of the London Development Agency and London Thames Gateway Development Corporation, as well as from the Homes and Communities Agency. This inherited property portfolio has the capacity to provide 40,000 new homes. The assets range from substantial brownfield development sites to residual interests in major developments and facilities like the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace. The strategy is to work with external parties like local boroughs and developers to create major development opportunities from these assets.
Este documento fornece uma introdução ao software SolidWorks. Ele apresenta o autor Ivo Ferreira da Silva e discute conceitos fundamentais do SolidWorks como modelagem baseada em recursos, modelagem paramétrica, modelagem de sólidos, associatividade e intenção de projeto. O documento também inclui um índice com os tópicos abordados nas lições subsequentes.
The document discusses several leafy vegetable crops grown in India, including amaranth, spinach beet, spinach, New Zealand spinach, and Malabar spinach. It provides details on the botanical classification and origin of each crop. For amaranth and spinach beet, it describes breeding objectives such as disease resistance and yield improvement. It also lists improved varieties that have been developed for some of the crops.
Grafting is an ancient asexual propagation technique where the rootstock and scion from two plants are joined together to form a single plant. The production of grafted vegetable plants first began in Japan and Korea in the late 1920s with watermelons grafted onto pumpkin rootstocks. Now common in parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East, grafting is used to improve traits like disease tolerance, abiotic stress resistance, and yield in important vegetable crops. Modern grafting methods include hole insertion grafting, tongue approach grafting and cleft grafting. Healing chambers are used to promote graft union formation and robotic grafting systems can produce hundreds of grafted plants per hour.
This document provides information on various leafy vegetable crops grown in India, including their botanical classification and origins. It discusses amaranth, spinach beet, spinach, New Zealand spinach, poi/Basella, and fenugreek. For each crop, it outlines key details such as the genus and species, origin, cytology/chromosome number, breeding systems and objectives. It also provides information on improved varieties that have been developed for many of these crops. The document emphasizes the importance of these leafy vegetables in Indian agriculture and cuisine.
This document provides information about bitter gourd and bottle gourd. It discusses the botany, origin, domestication, breeding, and improved varieties of bitter gourd. It describes that bitter gourd is widely cultivated in many countries for its nutrient-rich immature fruits. The document also summarizes key details about the botany and origin of bottle gourd from Africa and Asia. It mentions that bottle gourd is a monoecious vine grown for its tender fruits and used to make sweets.
The Billion Trees Tsunami Afforestation Project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa aims to rehabilitate forests and increase the forest resource base. It establishes central and private nurseries to grow over 500 million saplings, which are planted on 10,000 hectares of land. The project also focuses on protecting newly planted forests by training and hiring local communities as forest guards. Overall, the project has planted over 872 million seedlings across the province by 2017, with a high survival rate of 88.75%.
The National Trust cares for over 200 gardens and parks across the UK. It employs 450 professional gardeners and over 3,900 garden-based volunteers who contribute nearly 40,000 hours per year. The Trust's gardens provide important benefits for both physical and mental health, and are valued spaces for local communities. Through partnerships, the Trust aims to increase access to gardens and ensure their preservation for future generations.
The HSBC Climate Partnership was a 5-year, $100 million program involving over 100,000 people. It worked with environmental organizations on projects around the world that protected forests, improved access to water for 32 million people, and helped 10 cities reduce carbon emissions. The partnership trained over 2,000 HSBC employees as climate champions to educate others and implement sustainability projects. It achieved significant environmental impacts and engaged many HSBC employees in its work.
The HSBC Climate Partnership was a 5-year, $100 million program involving over 100,000 people across 46 projects to address climate change. It involved partnerships between HSBC, The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and WWF. The program expanded access to clean water and protected forests, trained over 2,000 HSBC employees as climate champions, and established a database to track changes in over 150,000 trees across 42 forest areas in 21 countries. The chairman notes that both large and small individual contributions made a difference in tackling climate change through this partnership.
COPHC's 2021 annual report outlines its efforts to make Gwadar a green city in alignment with Pakistan's Clean and Green vision. It established a plant tissue culture lab and greenhouse for research and growing saplings. It successfully trial planted various drought-resistant species across 5000 acres and parks. Plans for 2022 include expanding plantations, raising awareness, and introducing solar power. Key challenges include ensuring a stable water supply and financing for the 10 million tree initiative. COPHC is willing to share its experience to involve all stakeholders in developing a smart, sustainable green Gwadar.
This document discusses a conference held in Liverpool on green infrastructure and parklands. It covers several topics: the importance of green infrastructure for both the economy and the environment; the Atlantic Gateway Parklands initiative and its community funding projects; and Liverpool's green infrastructure framework. It provides examples of specific green infrastructure projects in the Liverpool area and their benefits. In the final section, it emphasizes that sustainability issues are long-term challenges that require ongoing solutions.
Spectrum Community Investment Casebook May 2015lo-respages - LBSuzie Mundell
This document provides an overview of community investment activities undertaken by Spectrum Housing Group in 2014-2015. Some key points:
- £3.16 million of social value was generated through 216 community projects with a budget of £939,000. Additional external funding of £460,000 was also attracted.
- Activities included employment training programs that helped 25 residents into jobs, green space improvements at the Lordshill estate in Southampton, and a gardening club for children in Keeble Road, Bournemouth.
- The community investment work engaged over 13,000 residents through various initiatives focused on employment, health and wellbeing, skills development, and improving neighborhood environments.
The document summarizes the Incredible Edible Brighouse project, which aims to transform an urban space in the deprived Vale Street area into a community food growing and learning space. The project intends to provide opportunities for locals to grow and harvest fresh produce, build community, and promote health and well-being. It supports the council's green space strategy and the Grow Wild initiative, seeking to beautify unused spaces, increase biodiversity, and source food locally and seasonally in an environmentally friendly way.
Community Gardening: Inclusive development and working with the marginalised ...GeoAnitia
The Gathering Tree Community Garden is a joint initiative between three organizations aimed at promoting community collaboration. The garden provides opportunities for marginalized groups to participate in activities that improve quality of life. It has incorporated elements of Australia's National Mental Health Plan, including prevention, recovery programs, and community participation. The garden has succeeded due to collaborative partnerships and a philosophy of community capacity building that supports inclusive decision-making.
Presentation by Sarah Dandy, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare: NHS Forest - the last 10 years and current plans at the NHS Forest Conference on Friday 11 October at Alder Hey Children's Hospital.
This document discusses a study conducted on parks in the Liverpool City Region. It was commissioned by the Rethinking Parks Task Group, established by the Liverpool City Region Local Nature Partnership. The task group seeks to identify alternative approaches to promote, support and manage the region's public parks and green spaces. The study may include establishing some form of organization to help manage the parks. It aligns with the nature partnership's goals of investing in the region's parks and green space assets.
NS - 2014-15 Spectrum Community Investment CasebookTim Crawshaw
The document summarizes community investment activities by Spectrum Housing Group in 2014/15. It details that Spectrum invested £939,000 in its community investment program, generated £3.16 million in social value, worked with 13,647 residents through 216 projects, and helped 660 households increase their income through benefit claims totaling £2,979,972. It provides examples of several successful community projects, including green space improvements in Lordshill that increased resident satisfaction, a gardening club for children in Keeble Road, providing bikes to residents in Stourpaine to increase mobility, installing broadband and providing digital skills training, and hosting a cycling safety event in Chancel Park.
Environmentalism, environmental movements in india, threats to nature, stake holder responsibility towards environment, SOME ACTIVE GOVT. AND NON GOVT. ORGANIZATIONS IN INDIA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN, environmental policy.
The document summarizes that 12 new landscape projects have been certified under the Sustainable Sites Initiative program for meeting rigorous sustainability standards. The projects certified include a historic Maryland house landscape, a pocket park in San Francisco, and a children's garden in Austin, Texas. These 12 projects helped field test the 2009 version of the SITES rating system and bring the total number of certified projects to 46. The projects demonstrate that sustainable landscapes can be achieved in various types and sizes that provide environmental and community benefits.
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The ROWAN Project aims to encourage members to spend time in woodlands and nature to benefit mental wellbeing. Members participate in conservation activities, health walks, and learning woodland skills. The project has been successful, with members reporting increased wellbeing. Activities have included gardening, clearing footpaths, and presentations about the project's benefits. The group meets weekly and collaborates with local conservation organizations on initiatives throughout the year.
California Greenworks is a registered 501 c 3 organization who primary mission is to improve the quality of life in urban communities through environmental education and implementation of sustainable community-based restoration and neighborhood revitalization projects and programs that promote green space, eliminate urban blight and advocate for green jobs creation and economic development.
Evolving Lifecycles with High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) and 3-D...Joshua Orris
The incorporation of a 3DCSM and completion of HRSC provided a tool for enhanced, data-driven, decisions to support a change in remediation closure strategies. Currently, an approved pilot study has been obtained to shut-down the remediation systems (ISCO, P&T) and conduct a hydraulic study under non-pumping conditions. A separate micro-biological bench scale treatability study was competed that yielded positive results for an emerging innovative technology. As a result, a field pilot study has commenced with results expected in nine-twelve months. With the results of the hydraulic study, field pilot studies and an updated risk assessment leading site monitoring optimization cost lifecycle savings upwards of $15MM towards an alternatively evolved best available technology remediation closure strategy.
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
Improving the viability of probiotics by encapsulation methods for developmen...Open Access Research Paper
The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
Kinetic studies on malachite green dye adsorption from aqueous solutions by A...Open Access Research Paper
Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
2. Maudsley Hospital Therapy Garden
Trees for Cities
The project’s goal was to transform a dull and
underused outdoor space at the hospital into
an enchanting therapy garden. The space is
part of the male ward for patients with severe
mental illnesses.
Trees for Cities believe connecting with nature
can have a positive effect on mental health.
The outdoor space is now used for therapy
sessions that let patients plant trees, flowers
and crops. It also runs sessions such as exercise
classes as another form of therapy.
6. Nursing New Orchards
The Urban Orchard Project
The Urban Orchard Project worked with 29
groups. This included schools, voluntary
organisations, housing associations,
conservation bodies, residents’ associations
and Councils.
The project has set up 4 new fruit tree
nurseries and planted 8 new orchards on
estates across London. They have also run 4
grafting workshops and planted 109 trees. This
has raised the tree coverage in London by
2,725 m². The Urban Orchard project have
also raised awareness in areas about food
sources and the importance of trees in cities.
10. Organic Lea Schools and Orchards
Projects
Organic Lea
The project ran tree care and planting
workshops across Waltham Forest and Enfield.
This has taught students, parents and
community members about the value of British
and northern European tree species.
The project lets young people get involved
with trees in a new way through practical,
nature based activities. It has had a positive
impact on people and has given volunteers the
chance to develop new skills.
12. Hackney Tree People 3
Tree Musketeers
Hackney Tree People 3 is the third project ran
by Tree Musketeers. They held a wide range of
activities across Hackney which included tree
planting, tree management and grafting.
In total the three projects have planted 191
new trees in Hackney and involved 683 people.
Hackney Tree People aims to boost the quality
and amount of tree stock in the borough. This
includes making sure that the tree stock lasts
by growing and planting younger trees.
15. Restoration of Lost Areas of Horse
Close Wood
The Friends of Wimbledon Park
The newly formed Friends of Wimbledon Park
were given a grant to plant both young and old
trees in Wimbledon Park, situated on the
historic Horse Close wood. The site is grade 2
listed and originally designed by Capability
Brown, who is often known as ‘England’s
Greatest Gardener’.
1000 trees and whips were planted during the
project by 83 volunteers, including 20 children.
This has increased biodiversity on the site and
increased park users’ contact with the
woodland. It will also help to improve air
quality in the area.
16. Restoration of Lost Areas of Horse Close Wood –The Friends of Wimbledon Park
17. Restoration of Lost Areas of Horse Close Wood –The Friends of Wimbledon Park