Children helped build a bug hotel for insects at a new leisure centre, using recycled materials. This project involved Epping Primary School pupils, Pellikaan staff, and local councillors.
The resort's stunning seed-pod-shaped treehouses emerge from the canopy like natural formations, establishing a new vocabulary for eco-luxury hospitality.
Ocean Ledger has advanced its geospatial analytics platform to predict coastal defence degradation and shoreline erosion. Its modelling tools enable better planning for rising sea levels and storm surges.
The Murphy Company's devastation of the landscape slaps you in the face. Here on land owned by the state's Department of Natural Resources (DNR), a beautiful mature forest has been logged for hardwood, plywood, and other wood products. Hacked-off stumps are visible in all directions, a few trees left to stand. The former forest floor, once rich with organisms, now stands heaped into huge slash piles to be burned.
Ann-Marie Powell stated, "Our design is about reimagining beauty through the lens of sustainability, resilience, and biodiversity. We're not just planting for visual impact—we're planting for pollinators, for changing weather, for longevity. Every plant has a purpose and a place."
The new mini forest that we have planted here in Brooklyn has transformed this lot into a vibrant and unique space for relaxation and reflection, complete with all the trees, shrubs, wildflowers, ferns, and stones that you'd find in a natural forest.
"In the past, some of those seeds might have survived and those trees might have grown, but today they're getting slashed because farmers do not want trees growing in places that will compromise the productivity of their crop," explained Anand Osuri, a scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) and lead author of the study. "The act of removing those seeds and seedlings is a form of rescue," he added.
"Rewetting bogs is all about reducing the carbon emissions from the bare peatlands," says Doreen King, emphasizing the importance of restoring natural ecosystems for carbon sequestration.
Hiring hawks from local falconer Christophe Puzin was the Majestic's answer to curbing gull-related incidents (such as Sophie Marceau's 2011 wine-on-dress situation).