9 June 2023
BY:
Claire Hector
discovering Sandown Bay’s wild and not so wild spaces – through words, pictures, things to do, things to learn, ways to get moving, and all with the help of a shrew, a rock pipit, ivy bees and gulls, a tiny boy and a whole heap of other everyday wildlife.
9 March 2023
BY:
Claire Hector
This March – Upcoming Volunteering Opportunities with Project Seagrass
4 October 2022
BY:
Claire Hector
Exploring the West Wight’s wildlife and landscape as part of the UNESCO Sites Across the Channel programme by reviving Isle of Wight’s Fort Vic Foray…
10 May 2022
BY:
Claire Hector
The Common Space’s Iris Manifesto for Sandown is no ordinary manifesto… now it’s an Iris Garden too!
21 February 2022
BY:
Claire Hector
ARC are heading back to Futurebuild to help put Biodiversity on the Built Environment agenda!
18 January 2022
BY:
Claire Hector
Seagrass, the underwater wonder-crucial to both the biodiversity and climate crises, is the focus of a new collaboration on the Isle of Wight Biosphere. ARC have been commissioned to support WWF, Project Seagrass and Swansea University’s Seagrass Ocean Rescue
20 December 2021
BY:
Claire Hector
Isle of Wight Biosphere-based Business for Biodiversity, ARC is recognised for ‘ground-breaking achievements’ at CIRIA BIG Biodiversity Awards
23 August 2021
BY:
Claire Hector
Arc’s recent Place Plan for Cowes, Isle of Wight is coming to life as local organisations team up to revive greenspace and public realm.
21 April 2021
BY:
Claire Hector
Our blog for CIRIA’s Big Biodiversity Awards…. ‘we know you can make a huge impact by doing one thing for biodiversity if it covers wildlife’s wants and needs. Do THREE things… and you’ll be on your way to changing the world. Then there’s Arc’s ‘Do A Nine Thing’ proven and flipping brilliant framework Shaping Better Places if you really want to nail it!’
24 March 2021
BY:
Claire Hector
Introducing the Wild Glades Festival about the natural world, led by The Glades and Bewonder*, curated by Artecology and Arc. Tune in online this Thursday 25th and Friday 26th March for loads of fantastic content from the Isle of Wight Biosphere’s artists and ecologists and from their partners working on rewilding Bromley and beyond!
8 December 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
Thanks to Bournemouth University and our colleagues Jess Bone and Dr Roger Herbert for this short film showing the Artecology R&D artificial rockpools (or as we call them, Vertipools) at work in Poole Harbour. Artecology‘s rockpools were commissioned as part of the cross-Channel, EU-funded Marineff research project and here you can see Bournemouth Uni’s team
24 September 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
From solitary bees to putting biodiversity into South & South East In Bloom, community rewilding is pure gold for people and for wildlife!
5 August 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
Looking forward to getting back to finish the phase one of our biodiversity project with Bromley’s forward-thinking shopping centre The Glades.
4 August 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
The planting of elms and the subsequent return of the White-letter Hairstreak to the heart of a busy town is an urban rewilding success.
30 July 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
Communities, people, will be unable to cope with the socio-economic and ecosystem shocks of climate change and biodiversity loss, let alone pandemic, when simply getting through the day is made harder by the built environments they inhabit. The need to build living and working places that are truly resilient, healthy and sustainable has never been so clear. The call for a different, better relationship between the human and natural worlds has never been so loud.
27 July 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
From world-class science and back garden safaris, Sea Eagle origami to magic tricks, flag-making, live music, dance school, carrot whistles and clay, animation and much more, Hullabaloo At Home turned Covid-19 adversity into amazements with a festival you can explore for ever more online!
18 June 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
HULLABALOO… Postponed? Cancelled? NEVER! The Show’s Going On (line!)…! Sandown Bay spectacular Hullabaloo, a grand community celebration of discovery and exploration, fun and wonder is back and changing shape bringing the Bay…and the Isle of Wight Biosphere’s first birthday… straight to your home! Hullabaloo is an outstanding mix of science, nature, art with live music,
22 April 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
Essential listening for Earth Day and a starter kit for post-Coronavirus built environment… here’s just some of Arc’s extraordinary body of natural, social and cultural experience distilled into a 3-point to-do list and a 5 minute talk for you!
22 April 2020
BY:
Ian Boyd
Covid-19 is in truth our fourth modern crisis, exposing and concentrating the three already before us when it struck: public health, biodiversity and climate. It is this quartet of deeply connected and fundamentally ecological stresses that demands systemic change in our recovery. Shaping Better Places is the template we use and our answer to a post-Covid future.
17 April 2020
BY:
Claire Hector
‘If we’re building places that make people ill and we are, what possible hope do we have for a resilient future? By thinking ecologically, we can design places that are healthy for people because they are healthy for wildlife.’ Catch Ian Boyd’s talk on taking an ecological approach to public health and development. Designing Habitat for Humans at Futurebuild 2020 now available on CoLab.