Giving Nature a Home in Glasgow

#GlasgowtoGlobe talks about climate ready cities!

2021-10-08T11:46:00Z

For our final webinar in the Glasgow to Globe series, we heard from Strathclyde University’s Cameron Mackay and Gemma Jennings from Malls Mire Community Woodland on how we can use nature to build climate-ready cities. https://vimeo.com/61902567...(read more)

Catch up on our #GlasgowtoGlobeNatureSolutions Webinars!

2021-10-06T13:57:00Z

Over the last month, the Glasgow team have been running a series of webinars looking at how nature can help us cope with ecological and environmental crises from Glasgow to Globe. We focused on one topic per week: overheating, food security, flooding...(read more)

Glasgow to Globe: Nature Solutions for our Food!

2021-09-16T08:30:00Z

Earlier this week, we hosted Graham Bell (permaculturist and author) and Patrick Holden (CEO of the Sustainable Food Trust) to discuss food in the second of our four webinars on nature solutions for climate change issues. Our food relies on being gro...(read more)

Glasgow to Globe Gets Going!

2021-09-10T15:32:00Z

The Glasgow to Globe Nature Solutions webinars started on Wednesday, with talks about how nature can help us limit overheating. With man-made climate change driving record temperatures, heat will become a new threat in much of the world as we are for...(read more)

Glasgow to Globe Gets Going!

2021-09-10T15:32:00Z

An amazing weekend of fun and fungi at the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow

2019-04-23T14:47:00Z

Glasgow will be saying farewell to Dippy the Dinosaur on May 6. He's had a HUGE impact on everyone who's seen him, and it'll be very sad to say goodbye. But before he's off, there's another weekend of wild fun planned, and Dippy will be joined by a g...(read more)

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum welcomes Dippy the Dinosaur!

2019-01-09T12:32:00Z

From January 22, The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow will be saying a massive hello to Dippy. Sarah-Jayne Forster tells us more: A short history of Dippy In 1898, a near-complete skeleton of a Diplodocus was uncovered in Wyoming. Belon...(read more)

Inspirational youth conference brings the Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival 2018 to a close

2018-12-05T19:29:00Z

RSPB Scotland volunteer Michaela Barton, reports. On December 11, high school environmentalists gathered at the Glasgow Science Centre to discuss a 30-year plan for Glasgow’s green future. The conference was the culmination of the Glasgo...(read more)

Flourishing young minds for a flourishing old city

2018-10-04T15:30:41Z

This year’s Youth Conference will bring together the best young minds at Glasgow Science Centre, as they plan for Glasgow’s environmental future in a series of presentations and hands-on seminars. Volunteer Michaela Barton reports. People...(read more)

Calling all city-dwelling nature lovers

2018-08-07T23:52:00Z

Volunteer Michaela Barton, fills us in on the latest events with the Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival 2018 The Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival is continuing this August as part of GO LIVE! at the Green. This innovative live experience brings together...(read more)

The Walking Library for a Wild City

2018-05-23T18:18:42Z

As the Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival approaches its third weekend, guest blogger Deirdre Heddon explains a bit more about her participation in the festival, through the Walking Library. The Walking Library is a creative research project initiated...(read more)

Top ten facts about swifts

2018-05-18T21:47:00Z

Swifts are returning to our skies after spending a lovely, warm winter in Africa. We’re even running an event all about them at the Kelvingrove Museum this weekend as part of the Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival! But how well do you know these sickle...(read more)

Download the full leaflet for the Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival

2018-05-11T20:37:00Z

Over the next four weekends, there will be dozens of events running at sites all over the city as part of the Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival 2018. This is a celebration, not only of our city's wildlife and green spaces, but we're also marking...(read more)

The Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival 2018 is almost upon us!

2018-05-03T21:35:32Z

From Springburn Park to Victoria Park, Garnethill to Lambhill: there are dozens of events running across Glasgow this spring to celebrate the city's amazing wildlife and greenspaces! The main events for the Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival start...(read more)

Launch of the Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival 2018

2018-04-20T22:18:26Z

We dug out our leg warmers, and double denimed to the max today at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, to help launch the Glasgow Wildlife Garden Festival 2018 in style! Jenny Tweedie explains: Photo by Louise Greenhorn In 1988, the Glasgow...(read more)