好消息：愛爾蘭永續發展、袖珍森林與改造的新視角

抄本 

請注意，此成績單是數位產生的，可能包含一些錯誤。

[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.

最近我採訪了穆罕默德‧希沙姆‧哈利勒 (Mohamed Hesham Khalil)。他是這一概念的領導人物，並撰寫了多篇相關論文。我將簡短地介紹我對他的採訪，其中會稍微解釋一下這個概念。不過，在穆罕默德的文章之後，請不要離開，因為我們還有更多關於愛爾蘭袖珍森林的好消息，以及一些關於森林改造的內容。

[00:01:10] 講者 A：這是建設性的聲音。

[00:01:13] Jackie De Burca：是什麼最初吸引您探索神經科學和建築之間的交叉點？

[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.

我在攻讀碩士學位期間開始探索這一點。它是建築學和神經科學（具體來說是應用神經科學）的跨學科領域。

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] 講者 A：這是建設性的聲音。

[00:02:33] Jackie De Burca：很高興聽到 Mohamed 的演講。請密切關注我們圍繞這個主題創作的系列節目，以及完整版節目。該系列節目將於 2025 年 XNUMX 月發布。如果您在此日期之後收聽，請使用您最喜歡的播客應用程式或訪問「建設性聲音」網站，constructive hyphen voices.com，即「建設性聲音」。

[00:02:57] 莎拉奧斯汀：那麼到目前為止，你已經創造了多少個袖珍森林？

[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] 莎拉奧斯汀：哇。所以，對於那些不知道「口袋森林」是由什麼組成的人來說，它和普通的城市花園，或是家裡或學校裡的花壇有什麼不同？

[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] 講者 A：這是建設性的聲音。

[00:04:40] Jackie De Burca：請務必造訪我們的網站，您會發現一個名為《綠化愛爾蘭：從袖珍森林到原生林地》（與 Katherine Cleary 合作）的節目。該節目由「建設性聲音」志工之一 Sarah Austin 創作，她做得非常出色。非常感謝你，Sarah。謝謝！現在我們將推出一期關於愛爾蘭改造的短片，完整版將於 2025 年 XNUMX 月播出。

[00:05:05] 講者 A：這是建設性的聲音。

[00:05:07] 馬克：7年2025月11,910日，愛爾蘭永續能源管理局（SEAI）發布季度報告，顯示2025年前三個月，透過政府補助計畫支持了2戶家庭能源升級，較去年同期成長2024%。 76年，政府支出達4萬歐元，成長XNUMX%。

超過 5,100 戶家庭的 BER 評分升級至 B2 或更高。

1,350戶能源匱乏的家庭獲得了免費升級，能源使用量提升了14%，並減少了15,000%的二氧化碳排放，進一步增強了全國的能源改造力度。今天的「建設性聲音」正面新聞更新到此結束。

[00:05:53] 講者 A：這是建設性的聲音。