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  • How Stockholm Is Sprouting Healthy Trees From Concrete

    March 04, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    The "Stockholm tree pit” model involves digging a pit and constructing a frame underground around an urban tree’s roots, then filling this pit with a mixture of soil and stone to both aerate and fertilize the soil while also allowing rain water to be collected. The circumference of select planted trees increased from 30 to 35 centimeters to 100 and 136 centimeters between 2004 and 2024, even surpassing that of trees without the tree pits that have been there for more than 80 years.

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  • How 'Superblocks' Can Create People-Centered Cities

    January 16, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    Superblocks are areas in congested cities where traffic has been rerouted to prioritize people. Outfitted with green spaces and communal areas to connect, superblocks help reduce air and noise pollution. Residents living in the area report a higher quality of life and increased social interaction with their neighbors. The idea of superblocks has traveled around the world to cities like Vienna, Berlin, Buenos Aires, and Los Angeles.

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  • Texas Trees launches a five-year plan to make South Dallas more green

    December 04, 2024 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    The Texas Trees Foundation is bringing thousands of trees to Dallas communities experiencing the worst of the urban heat island effect to help keep them cool. The organization supplies the trees and teaches residents how to care for them.

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  • New work program in Atlantic City for homeless people

    November 27, 2024 |

    NJ Spotlight |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlantic City, New Jersey

    The Hope Work Initiative by Atlantic City's Homeless Outreach Unit connects unhoused community members with temporary employment cleaning up the city streets for three days a week, making $75 a day.

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  • Revolution in the Soil: How One School is Responding to Food Insecurity

    May 29, 2024 |

    Sapelo Square |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    A community garden is part of the curriculum at the Mohammed Schools of Atlanta to teach students how to grow their own food. Amid a food desert, the garden provides fresh food for the school cafeteria and produces enough that students can take crops home to their families each week.

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  • 'We need more shade': US's hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need

    April 17, 2024 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    In Phoenix, Arizona, a citywide tree-planting initiative is slowly increasing canopy cover to reduce the urban heat island effect in neighborhoods that need it the most. Residents pick between several varieties of desert-adapted trees, which are planted on their property by professional arborists, and take care of them with a provided kit.

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  • He's Got a Plan for Cities That Flood: Stop Fighting the Water

    March 28, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: China

    Cities in China are moving away from using traditional water managment approaches, like drainage pipes and flood walls. Instead, they are becoming “sponge cities” by installiing green infrastructure designed to absob excess water, like green roofs and ponds.

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  • How a Colombian City Cooled Dramatically in Just Three Years

    March 04, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Medellín

    Medellín, Colombia, is combating the urban heat island effect by creating green corridors across the city. Over 2.5 million plants and trees were carefully selected to maximize impact and planted on buildings and along roads and waterways.

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  • Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.

    January 29, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Organizations in cities across the United States, including Philadelphia and Tucson, are simultaneously combatting urban heat and hunger by planting fruit trees and edible plants that provide shade and food that community members can harvest.

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  • The outliers in urban residential landscaping

    December 08, 2023 |

    Greeley Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Homeowners in Colorado are replacing their turf with rock and native plants and grasses, to save water and save money on water wills.

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