Debbie Tikao, President of the NZ Institute of Landscape Architects Tuia Pito Ora, brought home the fruit of many global conversations held at the 60th IFLA World Congress held in Istanbul in September.
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Steve Mushin - multi-talented designer, illustrator and inventor - is introducing thousands of children around the world to the words ultrawild and ultrawilding.
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Heather Wilkins, WSP Principal Landscape Architect, reflects on her involvement in the research report Sponge Cities: Can they help us survive more intense rainfall? and describes it as an "affirming experience". Sponge Cities won the Research and Communication category of the 2024 Resene NZILA Awards.
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Have your say on the actions and activities that New Zealand should take in the second half of the decade to help navigate towards a low-emissions future. Consultation is open until August 21, 2024.
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Responding to the escalating impacts of climate change-induced extreme rainfall events, this report explores the potential of transforming urban areas into ‘Sponge Cities’ as a proactive measure to minimise future risks.
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Landscape architects are well aware of many factors which are leading to an acceleration of climate change and the associated impacts of this change. Moving to a plant-based diet for example, wholly or partially, can have an immediate effect on individual environmental footprints.
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Around half of New Zealanders are more worried about climate change following this year’s severe weather events, and the majority are looking for affordable ways to take action in their own lives.
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Earth is experiencing an unprecedented rate of change. We are all living with ‘Code Red’.Herein, the 2024 IFLA 60th World Congress calls for humankind to take urgent action to prevent the worst impacts of environmental crises
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Pamela’s influential carbon research is elevating the net positive impacts of the exterior built environment
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The latest report from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is unusually direct in its message, writes Dr Simon Swaffield from the NZILA Climate Action Group.
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Climate Changed - Landscape architect Shannon Bray writes from cyclone ravaged Hawke’s Bay.
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The International Federation of Landscape Architects’ (IFLA) President, Dr. Bruno Marques says he has been on a steep learning curve since he took over the post late last year.
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Today (February 2) is World Wetlands day and comes just six days after Auckland’s flood emergency began.
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The Tuia Pito Ora New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects' president says the current flood emergency affecting Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty is a stark reminder of the threats climate change poses to all of us here in Aotearoa.
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Weather issues have dominated the start of 2023 here in Aotearoa and as the working year gets into full swing it is clear the climate emergency is going to once again be a key focus for the landscape architecture profession.
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The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced new goals for the profession. Together the ASLA Climate Action Plan and the Climate Action Field Guide for ASLA Members chart a pathway for landscape architects to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions in their projects and operations and increase carbon sequestration by 2040
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At the 2022 NZILA Firth Conference NIWA’s Dr Emily Lane presented a sobering address on flood risk here in NZ which had a huge impact on delegates.
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Designs for what’s being touted as the world’s first climate-resilient floating city have been unveiled. The project’s being developed by UN-Habitat, tech company OCEANIX and the Korean city of Busan.
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Madrid is building a giant wind garden which it’s hoped will reduce city temperatures by 4 degrees.
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Hassell’s proposal for the two-mile corridor of Colma Creek in South San Francisco won a 2021 Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture award in the international category.
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