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Aug 2, 2021 β€’ 9 tweets β€’ 6 min read β€’ Read on X
🧡 So disappointed to see Newcastle's "Urban Garden", partnered with @BrewDog, yesterday.

An excellent opportunity to put sustainability into practice, and to educate people on the climate, ruined through a series of avoidable, bad decisions πŸ‘‡
Claiming to have "sustainability" at it's core, @NE1BID's #UrbanGarden is partnered with carbon negative @BrewDog, and promotes the planting of trees in Brewdog's forest.

Excellent πŸ‘ But a series of harmful decisions have been made for the "garden" itself.
Decision 1⃣

Installing masses of @Easigrass plastic grass, which:

⚠️ Supports demand for fossil fuels
πŸ”₯ Causes carbon emissions through production
🌍 Will not degrade for centuries
πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘¦ Implies that fake grass is sustainable
Decision 2⃣

Installing a fake @Easigrass green wall, which:

πŸ‘† See all of above, and...
🌱 Removes option of having a real, sensory green wall
πŸ› Loses an opportunity to support urban invertebrates with real plants

Decision 3⃣

Bedding any real plants in peat based @BetterGrowing compost, which:

πŸ’¦ Drains and degrades peat bogs, vital habitats to battle impacts of climate change
πŸ”₯ Causes release of around 38 tonnes of carbon per ha
πŸ¦• Takes 1000 years to reform just one meter
#PeatFree
Decision4⃣

Family activities about the planet, brill πŸ‘ However,

🦎 It's a recurring misconception that children are uninterested in British wildlife, and climate education, the activities unfortunately reflect this (not through the fault of the provider).
The promotion of Urban Garden as sustainable is not only deeply inaccurate, it's patronising in assuming such decisions are good enough for the city (and the planet).

Plastic greenery and beer won't wash away the #ClimateCrisis, but a well-informed city could be a big help.
Crikey. Thank you to those who are supporting this, and in turn - hopefully - positive steps for future projects.

I'd be sincerely interested to speak with @NE1BID / @BrewDog about ways to integrate sustainability into future projects.
The response to this has been unexpectedly (but understandably) crackers. I think (@BrewDog and @NE1BID) it might be time to find out what’s happened at Urban Garden, and to reassure the hundreds of people who’ve responded how better choices will be made in the future..?

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