The new West Gorton Community Park in Manchester, UK, is designed as a park that drinks water, aiming to reduce flood risk and providing a multitude of benefits for local residents. This video gives an eco-tour of the park, explaining some of its key features: West Gorton Community Park has several key features that aim...

Through GrowGreen, Valencia City Council has recently put a project out to tender for creating a new sustainable forest in the Benicalap-Ciutat Fallera neighbourhood of the city. The forest will join and extend the existing Benicalap Park. The site for the new forest is ideal – in recent years, it has only been used as...

A plethora of nature-based solutions are now in place in the GrowGreen cities – from a park that drinks water in Manchester, to a green street in Wroclaw, and a green roof in Valencia – and yet more are to come. In Brest, a floodable park is nearing completion, which will give local people and...

Manchester’s West Gorton neighbourhood now has a new climate resilient park, one of GrowGreen’s demonstration projects. The park is designed with nature-based solutions to ‘drink’ and absorb rainwater, reducing flood risk in the surrounding area. The local residents, including elderly people and schoolkids, helped to design the park, which includes areas for people to meet...

The GrowGreen team in Modena is working on designs for nature-based treatment of canal waters from the urbanised eastern area of the city. The proposed nature-based solutions are being used for the first time by the City of Modena and the public-private partnership that manages water for the city. The project aims to reduce flood...

As part of GrowGreen, a new green roof has been installed on the Benicalap Senior Centre in Valencia, providing benefits for health and for the environment. The project, managed by the City of Valencia in collaboration with the Las Naves Innovation Centre, is part of GrowGreen’s ‘Més Verd Benicalap’ (Greener Benicalap) initiative. Més Verd Benicalap...