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Organised, industrious, vital to the local economy and requiring a small premises; a new outfit is moving into the Cube. In many ways they are model tenants for this office and residential development in central Sheffield.
What makes this location ideal for them? An innovative design feature of the building - a wildflower meadow, four storeys up - is a very attractive benefit when you’re a honeybee.
The patches of green scattered through our towns and cities, like the Cube’s green roof, provide a surprisingly important home for nature. Endangered water voles are finding a refuge along urban canals, Peregrine falcons circle above our city centres, wildflowers bloom in our parks and songbirds stock up from our gardens.
These spaces are working hard for us too. Your park may be much more attractive than your average street lamp or telephone exchange, but it’s just as vital a part of our urban infrastructure. They are busy cutting pollution, moderating extremes of temperature and soaking up flood water, so you can breathe easy and keep your feet dry at home.
It might not look much like a classroom either, but as more and more of us move into our towns and cities our green spaces are an important connection to the natural world. For class 4G it’s a local Serengeti populated by fascinating mini-beasts. For young people at risk of exclusion from school it’s a place to re-build their confidence by earning their first qualification. Well-managed green spaces, like the Offshoots project, can be exemplars for sustainable living for the rest of us too. Groundwork projects are even using green spaces to give people the skills to get back into employment and prepare us for a greener economy.
Groundwork is helping DEFRA with its campaign to plant 1 million trees
Local Landscapes is a national programme to boost green infrastructure in urban areas.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better - Albert Einstein
