Buenas noticias: Una nueva perspectiva sobre la sostenibilidad, los bosques de pequeño tamaño y la modernización en Irlanda

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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.

Recientemente hablé con Mohamed Hesham Khalil. Él es pionero en este concepto y ha escrito numerosos artículos al respecto. Voy a interrumpir una breve parte de mi entrevista con él, donde explica un poco sobre este concepto. No se vayan, después del artículo de Mohammed, porque tenemos más buenas noticias sobre los bosques de bolsillo en Irlanda y algo sobre la rehabilitación.

[00:01:10] Orador A: Este es Constructive Voices.

[00:01:13] Jackie De Burca: ¿Qué fue lo que te llevó a explorar esta intersección entre la neurociencia y la arquitectura?

[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.

Empecé a explorar esto durante mi maestría. Era una interdisciplina entre la arquitectura y la neurociencia, específicamente la neurociencia aplicada.

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] Orador A: Este es Constructive Voices.

[00:02:33] Jackie De Burca: Me alegra saber de Mohamed. Estén atentos al episodio completo, junto con la serie que estamos creando sobre este tema, que se lanzará en octubre de 2025. Así que, si lo escuchan después de esa fecha, simplemente busquen su aplicación de podcast favorita o visiten el sitio web de Constructive Voices: constructivehyphenvoices.com.

[00:02:57] Sarah Austin: ¿Y cuántos de estos bosques de bolsillo has creado hasta ahora?

[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: ¡Guau! Y para quienes no sabemos qué es un bosque de bolsillo, ¿en qué se diferencia de un huerto urbano normal o un parterre en casa o en la escuela?

[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] Orador A: Este es Constructive Voices.

[00:04:40] Jackie De Burca: No olviden visitar nuestra página web y encontrarán el título "Ecologizando Irlanda: de Bosques de Bolsillo a Bosques Nativos" con Katherine Cleary. Fue creado por Sarah Austin, voluntaria de Voces Constructivas, quien ha hecho un trabajo increíble. Muchas gracias, Sarah. Gracias. Ahora publicaremos un breve artículo sobre la rehabilitación en Irlanda y el episodio completo se publicará en septiembre de 2025.

[00:05:05] Orador A: Estas son voces constructivas.

[00:05:07] Mark: El 7 de agosto de 2025, la Autoridad de Energía Sostenible de Irlanda (SEAI) publicó su informe trimestral, que muestra que 11,910 2025 mejoras energéticas en viviendas recibieron apoyo mediante programas de subvenciones gubernamentales durante el primer trimestre de 2, lo que representa un aumento del 2024 % con respecto al mismo período. En 76, el gasto público alcanzó los 4 millones de euros, un XNUMX % más.

Más de 5,100 viviendas fueron mejoradas a una clasificación BER B2 o superior.

1,350 hogares en situación de pobreza energética recibieron mejoras gratuitas, un aumento del 14 %, y evitaron el 15,000 2 % de emisiones de COXNUMX, lo que refuerza el impulso nacional hacia la modernización. Con esto concluye la actualización de noticias positivas de Voces Constructivas de hoy.

[00:05:53] Orador A: Este es Constructive Voices.