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Robin Walker ROBIN WALKER has been appointed as leader of the Agricultural Professional Practice (APP) postgraduate distance learning programme. Mr Walker s long career at SRUC started in 1999, when he was employed at Craibstone as an oilseeds and novel crop agronomist after completing his PhD at the University of London on nitrogen use in low input cropping systems. He was involved in agronomic research as well as teaching on several undergraduate courses across a range of subjects, mostly within the Agriculture and Countryside Management programmes. He also helped develop some of the first distance-learning specific teaching materials, including a course on Organic Farming which won an Institute of IT Training ‘Online Course of the Year’ award, presented in 2001.
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It’s no secret that as the country attempts to tackle the related problems of global warming and food security, many cities have been creating green spaces for urban farming, and Newark is no exception. In 2004, it started an Adopt-A-Lot program, which encourages residents, businesses, block associations and nonprofits to create green gardens in city-owned vacant lots. In 2013, a coalition of experts, city agencies and organizations formed Newark DIG (which stands for Doing Infrastructure Green) to find environmentally friendly ways to manage water runoff, which overloads the city’s aging sewer system and contributes to pollution in nearby waterways. Among their many initiatives, Newark DIG has helped residents, businesses and urban gardens set up rainwater harvesting systems to capture and reuse rainwater to lighten the load on that system.