We organise events for cities around the world. You can find them over on our www.nationalparkcity.org website at
www.nationalparkcity.org/events
For example:
We organise events for cities around the world. You can find them over on our www.nationalparkcity.org website at
www.nationalparkcity.org/events
For example:
Tue, 27 October 2020
18:30 – 20:00 GMT
FREE
The creation of green corridors has become popular in cities across the world. Increasing and connecting urban green spaces has many benefits - from reducing the impacts of climate change, such as heat and flooding, and sustaining biodiversity, to improving the physical and mental health of city residents.
The promotion of green infrastructure has also received considerable attention as a means of attracting people into their local natural environment by improving community access and involvement, recreation opportunities, and environmental benefits to communities.
As part of Urban October, join us for this online event to learn about green corridors and re-imagine what life in London can be like if we were to create more green corridors in the city. The event will be hosted by the London National Park City’s Rangers Programme. We will update our speakers list in due course.
Our speakers will share how they’ve implemented green corridors in Lisbon, Portugal and Medellin, Columbia , what challenges they faced and the impact it had on the citizens of their cities. We will also find out what the Greater London Authority (GLA) are looking at and how we could support this movement. Plenty of time will be allocated for discussion and Q&A. You can read our speakers' bios below.
Peter has spent the majority of his 30 year professional career as an urban ecologist and green infrastructure policy maker.
He started his career with the London Wildlife Trust and the London Ecology Unit, managing nature reserves and providing ecological advice to London boroughs. He subsequently worked for Natural England where he had responsibility for the government agency’s strategy for the London region. He initiated and help formulate the All London Green Grid and the policies that helped foster interest in green roofs and other forms of urban greening.
For the past 10 years he has led on green infrastructure and natural environment policy for the Greater London Authority, successfully embedding a policy framework in the London Plan and London Environment Strategy that aims to make London a greener, more liveable and resilient city.
Prior to joining C40, Paula worked in the public administration for Medellín City as an Environmental Engineer in the Environment Secretary, working to coordinate International cooperation. Previously, Paula worked within the energy sector, developing small hydroelectric plants in Antioquia, Colombia. Paula has experience with sustainable projects such as: environmental education, carbon footprint calculation and research on the impacts of climate change on high mountain ecosystems water supply in Natural National Park Los Nevados, Colombia.
Paula is an Environmental Engineer from EIA University, holds a Master’s degree in Hydro Science & Engineering from the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany and an Advanced International Training Program “Climate Change – Mitigation and Adaptation”, Sweden.
Landscape Architect since 2000 from Lisbon University, he has worked for years on landscape plans and as project designer. In the last decade at Lisbon Municipality, he has been working with public policy for green infrastructure including NBS (nature based solutions) for climate adaptation.
In addition, Duarte is the head of cabinet of the Deputy Mayor for Environment, Green Infrastructure, Climate and Energy since 2015. He has been involved the European Green Capital Award since the application, as well as with LIFE LUNGS (2019-2024) for climate adaptation in green infrastructure and the recently approved CONEXUS H2020 project for Nature co-design processes(2020-2024).
Tue, 27 October 2020
18:30 – 20:00 GMT
For our first anniversary, we held a special online event to showcase 100 voices making London greener, healthier and wilder.
The amazing range of speakers we had across all three evenings are listed below. Check them out, follow their links, connect with them on social media. We love a good conversation to create connections and new ideas!
Watch many of our speakers now on our YouTube Channel. We've created a Playlist of them all.
Here are just some of the videos you can watch:
We would like to continue to add Voices from our National Park City, so if you are interested in contributing a 3 minute video, please drop us a line at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
On the first day of our 100 Voices from London National Park City we heard from people across the city on subjects including fruit trails and community gardens, sustainable schools and greener choices, street art, cycling, litter, rivers, nature reserves, gardening and much more!
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Name | Title | Organisation (if relevant) | Website | ||
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Ben Smith | National Park City Foundation trustee introduction | ||||
Ian Solomon-Kawall | LITTER LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE | May Project Gardens | https://www.3kmt.co.uk | ||
Mike Priaulx | Protecting Our Threatened Urban Biodiversity | Islington Swfits Group | islingt_swifts | ||
Divya Hariramani | Fruity walks | FruityWalks | FruityWalks | ||
Crista Buznea | Greener Choices and Building Back Better in London | www.CristaBuznea.com | |||
Martin Crabbe | A New Podcast: Doorways to Sustainable Schools | London Sustainable Schools Forum | LdnSusSchools | doorwayspodcast | http://www.londonsustainableschools.org/doorways-podcast.html |
Matt Ponting | How I made a mini garden | _DoodlingAround | doodling.around | ||
Kate Stockings | How lockdown has turned me into a London cyclist | kate_stockings | www.katestockings.com | ||
Mark Kier | You can be heard! Wildlife Protection | ||||
Elayne Coakes | Wildlife in your garden: the environment and your impact | Willesden Green Town Team | WillesdenGreenTown | ||
Chamu Kuppuswamy | A National Park City in an International City | Peak District National Park Authority - Volunteer Ranger | |||
Chloe & Alex | Fertile Grounds | Fertile Grounds | fertilegrounds.art | ||
Rob Gray | Citizen Crane: using citizen science to improve a river | Friends of the River Crane Environment (FORCE) | friendsrivcrane | ||
ATM | Celebrating Freshwater Life | ATMstreetart | AtmStreetart | atmstreetart | |
Miles Attenborough | Treasures of Tunnel Gardens | ||||
Vitra Sookoo | Sacred spaces | ||||
Trevor Sharman | Lammas Community Forest Garden, a space for real life | Ealing Transition Initiative | ealingtransition | www.ealingtransition.org.uk |
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Michelle Parkes | Littering during lockdown | Plogolution | plogolution | plogolution | www.plogolution.com |
Astha Johri | LOT - London's Land Bank | Royal College of Art | |||
Sophie Leguil | More than Weeds: let's rewild our streets! | More Than Weeds | morethanweeds | ||
Peter Barbalov | Ecologic Economies | Farrells | PeterBarbalov | http://linkedin.com/in/peterbarbalov | |
Shaira Begum | Social and therapeutic gardening in women's refuges in East London | Women's Environmental Network | Shairaecostuff | climatereframe | |
Sian Moxon | Rewilding Your Street: transforming London’s streets through design | Rewild My Street | rewildmystreet | rewildmystreet | www.rewildmystreet.org |
Elliot Newton | ReImagine, ReThink, ReWild London | elliotnewton90 | |||
Ellie | Life, but Greener. | Greenish | _thegreenish | thegreenish.co.uk | |
John Goldwyn | Reimagining our urban centres through guerrilla greening | WATG | watgdesigns | watgdesigns | WATGDesigns |
London National Park City Rangers | What we can do with the power of 54 | https://www.nationalparkcity.london/rangers |
On the second day of our 100 Voices from London National Park City we heard from people across the city on subjects including wildlife photography and gardening networks, personal experiences of our wild city, solar schools, wild swimming, orienteering, digital technologies, fungi, food and forest bathing!
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Name | Title | Organisation (if relevant) | Website | ||
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Eilish Kavanagh | National Park City Foundation trustee introduction | ||||
Aude Vuilliomenet | GardensofThings - Digital Technologies to help greening London | www.gardensofthings.com | |||
Michael Green | Introducing the London Fungus Network | London Fungus Network | londonfungusnetwork | londonfungusnetwork | |
Vincent Brown | Walworth Community Gardenning Network | Walworth Community Garden Netwowrk | cgnwalworth | walworthcgn.co.uk | |
Kelly Clark | How Londons national cycle network links our communities and green spaces | Sustrans | |||
Kathleen Hogan Ehrlich | Reimagining Butler's Wharf Riverside | Butler's Wharf Riverside Trust | bwriverside | butlerswharfriverside | butlerswharfriverside |
Kabir Kaul, National Park City Ranger | My experiences with the Wild Side of London, one year on | Not relevant | Kaulofthewilduk | www.kaulofthewild.com | |
Kenneth Greenway | Wild Food in the City | The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park | fothcp iamkengreenway www.fothcp.org | ||
Katie Mills | Forest Bathing in London | Forest Bathing London | forestandfamily | www.katiemills.co.uk | |
Sarah Gregory | Investing in the future of our communities | May Project Gardens | arevolutionofourown | ||
Dee O'Connell | How the Lea Valley changed my life | The Brokedown Palace / London Waterkeeper | ldnwaterkeeper | ||
Agamemnon Otero | Energy Garden: Opening up London train lines to biodivsersity | Energy Garden | EnergyGardenLDN | ||
Hugh Chapman | Trees with wheels | ||||
Donald Waugh | Pavement2Catwalk - nature | Pave2Catwalk | pavement2catwalk.wordpress.com | ||
Vinh-Phuong | Orienteering in London: an exciting way to explore green spaces | South London Orienteers | sloweb | www.slow.org.uk | |
Zunaira Malik | Not your average environmentalist | Action for Conservation | action4conserv | www.actionforconservation.org | |
Andy Rolfe | Solar schools in London | Ealing Transition and Schools’ Energy Coop | ealingtransition | https://ealingtransition.org.uk/ | |
Steve Watts | Green Wall | ||||
Armina Daescu | Walking in London | ||||
Ruxandra Calin | Deep diving into green life: little but impactful changes | - | ruxcalin | rux.c | |
Jasmine Kamal-Pasha | Celebrating London's nature and wildlife through photography | jasminekpasha | jasminekpasha | www.jasminekamalpasha.com | |
Oasis Play Stockwell | Transforming lives through play and supporting the community through lockdown | oasisplay | oasisplay.org.uk | ||
Joyce Veheary | LendAndTend | LendAndTend | LendAndTend | www.lendandtend.com | |
Luke Newcombe, National Park City Ranger | a mission to make Wood Green, Greener! | GrowN22 | Duke_Nuke | https://grown22.com/ | |
London National Park City Rangers | What we can do with the power of 54 | https://www.nationalparkcity.london/rangers |
On the third day of our 100 Voices from London National Park City we heard from people across the city on subjects including cycling, wildflowers, inclusion and communities, blue sky and night sky, edible cities, photography, parkour, litter, art and experiences during lockdown.
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Name | Title | Organisation (if relevant) | Website | ||
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Emily Hamilton | National Park City Foundation trustee introduction | ||||
Ian Solomon-Kawall | LITTER LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCE | May Project Gardens | https://www.mayproject.org | ||
Shirley Rodrigues | Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy | ||||
Andy Scholes | Gipsy Hill | Friends of Gipsy Hill | OurGipsyHill | ||
Justine Boussard & Sarah Turner | Designing London National Park City - There Project | There Project | https://www.thereproject.org | ||
Amanda Jacobs | How to protect your local trees | amanda-jacobs-51317918 | |||
Momtaz | Make your neighbours smile! | TheCraftCafe | The_CraftCafe | ||
Dan Edwardes | Urban Movement | Parkour Generations | dan_edwardes | https://www.facebook.com/danedwarde | |
Ingrina Shieh, National Park City Ranger | What If the outdoors were for EVERYONE: Diversity and inclusion in the outdoors | ||||
Francesco Cagnola | LOT - London's Land Bank | Royal College of Art | https://www.rcaservicedesign.com/projects/lot | ||
Andrew Simms | Rapid Transition - Lessons from Lockdown | Rapid Transition Alliance | RapidTransition | https://www.rapidtransition.org | |
Tim Boden | The Oyster Wheel - circumnavigating London on a bike | tb_trekker | oysterwheel.wordpress.com | ||
Sarah Cheesbrough | Wild Neighbours: Portraits of London's Magnificent Creatures | Sarah Cheesbrough Photography | www.sarahcheesbrough.com | ||
Izzy, National Park City Ranger | lessons from lockdown | Action For Conservation | action4conserv | actionforconservation.org | |
Khadijah | lessons from lockdown | Action For Conservation | action4conserv | https://actionforconservation.org | |
Julie Futcher | bluesky happiness | a crowd sourced collaboration project | #BlueSkyHappiness | ||
Cath Prisk | Making getting outdoors as aspirational as reading to your child at night... | Outdoor People | outdoorpeeps | outdoorpeopleuk | www.outdoorpeople.org.uk |
Amanda Tuke | Are they weeds or wildflowers? | Freelance writer and blogger: nature, people, place | suburbanwilduk | www.freelancenaturewriter.com | |
Michael Holland | My Garden is a Classroom! | Growing Understandings | pond_dipper | pond_dipper | |
Des Garrahan | The Lockdown Days | Ramblers in London | walkngclasshero | walking class hero | www.walkingclasshero.org |
Louise Yates | Edible Cities | Transition Town Crystal Palace | 1louyates | ||
Abena Poku-Awuah | Embedding sustainability into outdoor events | ||||
James Clark | Bringing communities together, turning estates green | Wilder Communities | WilderCommuniti | ||
dani connor | How a baby squirrel inspired the world | daniconnorwild | |||
Megan Eaves | London – A Stargazing City? | International Dark-Sky Association | megoizzy |
https://meganeaves.com/dark-skies | |
Sean McCormack | Helping Ealing’s Owls | Ealing Wildlife Group | wildlifeealing | ealingwildlifegroup | www.ealingwildlifegroup.com |
Donald Waugh | Pavement2Catwalk - nature | Pave2Catwalk | https://pavement2catwalk.wordpress.com" | ||
London National Park City Rangers | What we can do with the power of 54 |
London is full of millions of people who have ideas and projects to make life better in our city. What if we shared those ideas more and inspired other people to do them too?
To celebrate the first anniversary of London becoming the world’s first National Park City next month, we are going to hold a special online event to showcase 100 people who are doing things to make our National Park City greener, healthier or wilder.
We will showcase 100 diverse voices, speaking on a wide range of topics and from every corner of our beautiful city. The stories will cover gardening, nature photography, walking, cycling, trees, climate change, parks and green spaces, green recovery, local volunteering, storytelling, arts and crafts, fungi, fitness, campaigning, parkour, skateboarding, community action....and many other creative ideas.
Join us for this online celebration filled with positivity to re-imagine what London can be. The event will be hosted by the National Park City Foundation and will include stories, videos, songs, poems and plenty of time to connect and continue the conversation.
An Audio Journey Along Regent's Canal
A new audio journey by There Project, with sound design by Deborah Ridley
Commissioned by National Park City Foundation for the London Design Festival 2020
Available from Friday 18 September
Accessible 24/7 with own phone and headset via https://www.thereproject.org
Recommended starting point: Islington Tunnel, London N1 8AP
We encourage listeners to experience the audio journey outside or on location, but it can be tuned into from anywhere in the world. This is an experience designed for individuals to enjoy using their own phone and headset. Nevertheless, please observe current social distancing guidelines.
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Visit the project page on the London Design Festival Website here.
What if cities were designed as spaces for both people and wildlife to thrive? What if we thought like coots or peregrines? This London Design Festival, There Project takes you on an audio journey through one of London's iconic landscapes - the 200-year-old Regent's Canal. Taking a bird's eye view, it questions whether design can help us become more ecocentric.
Starting at the Islington Tunnel, listeners will follow 15-year-old conservationist and wildlife writer Kabir Kaul, as he guides us on a walk East towards the Kingsland Basin Nature Reserve. Along the way, we hear from designers, thinkers, activists, and residents who are transforming our place in nature, and nature’s place in our National Park City.
Catch this audio journey on your walk between London Design Festival destinations (Regent's Canal is a great green and blue link between King's Cross Design District and Shoreditch Design Triangle), or tune in from anywhere else in the world for an opportunity to take a deep breath, transport yourself to the canal, and think about your own relationship with wildlife in the city.
Although this is not strictly a guided walk, we encourage everyone who can to go out and enjoy this audio journey outside, and if they can, on the Canal - recommended starting point is at Islington Tunnel (Colebrook Row, N1 8AP), walking East towards Kingsland Basin Nature Reserve (a leisurely 40mn walk). Please make sure to follow government guidelines on social distancing and outdoors gatherings to keep yourself and others safe. Own smartphone and headphones are needed to access the content via thereproject.org
We are inviting friends groups, nature groups, schools and other organisations to create their own #NationalParkCity Local Gathering during a week in late Spring.
A Local Gathering is a local version of our regular Gathering which your group organise:
Not already a member of a group? Why not set up a National Park City Group at work, in school, with colleagues or friends. A NationalParkCity Local Gathering is a great way to get a new group together.
So how about it?
To let us know, please use the form below or open the form full screen
To celebrate the one year anniversary of the #NationalParkCity Launch we will be running a #NationalParkCity Festival throughout July.
We are inviting you to organise an event during this time. It can be anything that helps people to enjoy London’s great outdoors or helps make the city greener, healthier and wilder. It may be a Local Gathering as above.
We will help you reach as wide an audience as possible, especially people who do not know or feel that green spaces and outdoor places are for them.
Let’s promote and share the good things people are doing locally!
To let us know, please use the form below or open the form full screen