Planet Earth
Sustainability can be a hard concept to explain and interestingly one of the best talks I have heard wasn’t by a sustainability professional but by the physicist Professor Brain Cox. He spoke at Ecobuild 2011 and used the ideas from Carl Sagan’s book...
A Rose by any other Name
I recently watched this fascinating film from The Guardian about the flower producing industry in Kenya and the impact on the local environment and community. It shocked me that that the local community has to compete with the flower industry for such a vital...
Fire and Ice
When I travelled by train during the recent cold weather I was surprised to see that some smaller streams and rivers had partially frozen. I don’t ever remember seeing this before in the UK. Most people have heard of the Frost Fairs that were held on the River...
Blowing in the Wind
The alternative energy generator at last week’s low carbon farming event! I mentioned last week my rather chilly visit to an event run by Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit The event was excellent and really thought provoking. In case you are wondering why I attended...About Me
My name is Claire Thirlwall and I’m a chartered landscape architect. I run Thirlwall Associates, a landscape architecture consultancy based in Oxfordshire.
I work with architects, engineers, planners, project managers and other construction professionals. I also work as a sub-consultant to other landscape architects.