Dobre vijesti: Novi način gledanja na održivost, džepne šume i modernizaciju u Irskoj

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[00:00:00] Speaker A: This is Constructive Voices. Constructive Voices, the podcast for the construction people with news, views and expert interviews.

[00:00:10] Jackie De Burca: Hi there, this is Jackie De Burca for the Constructive Voices Good News podcast. A short, sharp burst of uplifting stories from the built environment with a side of conservation. We’re hoping to light up your day with some really interesting news about a new way of thinking about sustainability. In fact, it’s one that’s not just about protecting the planet, but also about protecting our minds.

It’s called neurosustainability, a concept linking environmental conservation with brain health. As you may know, research shows that spending time in nature can have profound effects on our mental and cognitive well being, something many of us felt firsthand during the COVID 19 lockdowns.

Nedavno sam razgovarao s Mohamedom Heshamom Khalilom. On je predvodnik u ovom konceptu i napisao je mnogo različitih radova o tome. Ukratko ću preskočiti dio mog intervjua s njim koji malo objašnjava ovaj koncept. Međutim, nemojte odustati nakon Mohammedovog članka jer imamo još dobrih vijesti o džepnim šumama u Irskoj i malo o sanaciji.

[00:01:10] Govornik A: Ovo su Konstruktivni glasovi.

[00:01:13] Jackie De Burca: Šta vas je prvo privuklo da istražite ovu raskrsnicu između neuroznanosti i arhitekture?

[00:01:19] Mohamed Hesham Khalil: It was during lockdown, to be honest, when I started seeing so many people feeling more depressed and having higher levels of anxiety. That was sparked to something that it is something about the built environment and especially that some people have sustained those symptoms even after lockdown. So that shift, like from experiencing the belt environment in a specific way and then going back was an alert to start seeing this relationship between the built environment and the human brain. Because I know that it is associated with mental health and cognitive performance was really the motivation.

I počeo sam ovo istraživati tokom svog master studija. To je bilo interdisciplinarno između arhitekture i neuroznanosti, konkretno primijenjene neuroznanosti.

And then that was the departure point based on which I started doing my PhD at the University of Cambridge to explore this impact of the built environment on neuroplasticity in more depth.

[00:02:31] Govornik A: Ovo su Konstruktivni glasovi.

[00:02:33] Jackie De Burca: Drago mi je čuti Mohameda. Držite uši i oči otvorene za cijelu epizodu zajedno sa serijom koju stvaramo o ovoj temi, a koja će biti objavljena u oktobru 2025. Dakle, ako ovo slušate nakon tog datuma, samo pogledajte svoju omiljenu aplikaciju za podcaste ili posjetite web stranicu Constructive Voices, constructivehyphenvoices.com, ovo je Constructive Voices.

[00:02:57] Sarah Austin: Koliko ste ovih džepnih šuma do sada stvorili?

[00:03:02] Catherine Cleary: We’re up to about 125 at the moment. I think some of them will be Extremely small, the size of a single car parking space and others would be larger. Our largest is about 100 square meters, which is roughly half a tennis court.

[00:03:18] Sarah Austin: Vau. I mislim, za one od nas koji ne znaju šta, od čega se sastoji džepna šuma? Po čemu se razlikuje od, možda, običnog gradskog vrta ili cvjetnjaka koji možda imate kod kuće ili u školi?

[00:03:28] Catherine Cleary: Yeah, it’s really interesting to kind of discover what the traditions of urban landscaping are. So we traditionally do a lot of grass, so we will call a green space, a green space when there’s very thin soil and just a layer of grass and then that’s usually mown to within an inch of its life over the summertime, although no mamey is happening. And then with tree planting they tend to be planted widely spaced lone trees with those grassy areas in between them. There are various reasons given for this.

Cyclones, certain local authorities and, and people aren’t, some are, aren’t very happy at the idea of not being able to see what’s happening everywhere in every, every public space. So what we do looks very different to that. We’re planting much younger trees than would normally be planted. They’re only two year old whips, so they’re very small, planted in winter time and planted much more closely together about 3 per square meter, which would be very dense compared to traditional landscaping in cities. But the result is that they create this microclimate very quickly the soil changes and we do a little bit of that work before we plant anything as well. That’s part of the pocket forest difference, I suppose. We do a soil preparation workshop with communities.

[00:04:38] Govornik A: Ovo su Konstruktivni glasovi.

[00:04:40] Jackie De Burca: Obavezno posjetite našu web stranicu i pronaći ćete naslov "Ozelenjavanje Irske od džepnih šuma do prirodnih šuma s Katherine Cleary". Ovaj članak je kreirala Sarah Austin, jedna od volonterki organizacije Constructive Voices, i zaista je odradila sjajan posao. Hvala ti puno, Sarah. Hvala ti. Sada ćemo imati samo kratki članak o preuređenju u Irskoj, a cijela epizoda za ovo će biti objavljena u septembru 2025.

[00:05:05] Govornik A: Ovo su konstruktivni glasovi.

[00:05:07] Mark: Dana 7. augusta 2025. godine, Irska uprava za održivu energiju, SEAI, objavila je svoj kvartalni izvještaj koji pokazuje da je 11,910 energetskih nadogradnji domova podržano kroz vladine programe grantova u prva tri mjeseca 2025. godine, što je povećanje od 2% u istom periodu. U 2024. godini, vladina potrošnja dostigla je 76 miliona eura, što je povećanje od 4%.

Više od 5,100 domova je nadograđeno na BER B2 ocjenu ili višu.

1,350 energetski siromašnih domaćinstava dobilo je besplatne nadogradnje, što je povećanje od 14%, i izbjeglo je 15,000% emisije CO2, čime se jača nacionalni napor za modernizaciju. Time se završava današnje pozitivno ažuriranje vijesti Konstruktivnih glasova.

[00:05:53] Govornik A: Ovo su Konstruktivni glasovi.