The Coronavirus pandemic may have changed all our lives forever, not necessarily for the worse in every situation and certainly when I consider some of the changes I had planned for Outside Spaces it has given me a push to implement them sooner. As a keen environmentalist and lover of the natural world I have been increasingly more concerned about the planet and the catastrophic changes we are imposing on it at a rate never seen before.

Whilst these changes are the sum total of a global system that has many parts I have been reviewing my footprint on the planet and trying to think of things that I could do to reduce my effect and to ensure that my legacy is a positive one rather than negative. I am in the enviable position of being asked to work on a wonderful array of projects all around the UK and further afield, but this entails (up until now at least) countless miles of travelling and subsequent fuel consumption and emissions. Sometimes travel is unavoidable, visiting project sites that are complicated and where little site information is available, but I am acutely aware that the modern technological world we live in allows much more remote contact between people.