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...The answer is to use plants as screening, she says, especially evergreens....
...She has just published a very good book, Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden (Timber Press, £28), from which I have learnt lessons, as you will too even if you are new to gardening....
...Marina continues to lead the charge to build climate resilience and restore the ecosystem known as “the lungs of the planet”....
...The City of London Corporation announced proposals last year to demolish Bastion House, a modernist office block near the Barbican estate, as well as the neighbouring Museum of London, to make way for an...
...About one in seven also used an overdraft....
...Also, the value of timber has been rising every year, and the government has finally woken up to the value of planting woodland.”...
...While the Barbican was built by a local authority for the purposes of private renting, under the ownership of the Corporation of the City of London, Sivill House and Vanbrugh Park were commissioned as social...
...It also pumps out annual ESG reports, short for environmental, social and governance, as well as “journey to sustainability” reports and “culture, diversity, equity and inclusion” reports....
...Gabon’s carbon cuts were verified using criteria known as REDD, or reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation....
...But many US companies have started preparing for carbon pricing, according to CDP, a non-profit formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project....
...The Black Forest is now mostly planted with evergreen spruces, as the native hardwood trees had largely been felled for timber by the mid-19th century....
...Vietnam — opened up, hungry for cash crops and timber....
...It’s evergreen, which is amazing – that doesn’t happen every day. What I admire is the simplicity, the sensuality that Vico always put into his work....
...Brown, who in his younger days was known as Governor Moonbeam — a hippie-era term — hedges his bets. Socialism is not his thing....
...The flood of capital is also contributing to higher asset valuations, forcing private equity managers to pay as much as 11 to 12 times earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation for a company...
...Like O’Neal, Weaver describes the nexus between local politics and corporations as “the good ol’ boy network”....
...Like his ancestors, Frey also puts wood at the centre of his constructions — using heavy solid timber that is 25cm to 28cm thick to support the structures and act as insulation....
...Sitka spruce is a large, coniferous evergreen, originating from the US....
...I’ve also made space for beds between the wall and paving, so it feels less like a stone monolith and more like part of a garden....
...The single-storey, timber-clad house in Austin, Texas is built among 200-year-old evergreen oaks, two of which pass through apertures in the floor and roof of the home’s porch....
...He was also lucky in his children and in the woman whom his son, Adolph Junior, married....
...Other areas in demand are the coastal neighbourhoods known collectively as “the beaches”....
...But we have to find a more sensible way of supplying timber than by laying waste a unique environment such as the Carpathians....
...Entire streets in Lashio, meanwhile, the largest town in northern Shan State, are packed with smartphone stores selling lesser-known Chinese mobile brands like Kenbo and Vivo, as well as better-known ones...
...Houses in Japan’s capital used to burn down so often that it was known as “the city of fires and fist-fights”....
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