Sentences with phrase «for urban trees»

«People come here for the jobs and the great climate and because it's green,» says Cass Turnbull, founder of the nonprofit Plant Amnesty, and TreePAC, a political nonprofit formed to advocate for urban trees.

Lastly, it is to create digital matrix bar codes for urban tree identification and classification.

They can do this by using a tool called i - Tree for an urban tree canopy assessment.

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All Tree Beer proceeds will benefit FGRP's Grand Rapids Urban Forest Project for tree plantings in the communTree Beer proceeds will benefit FGRP's Grand Rapids Urban Forest Project for tree plantings in the communtree plantings in the community.

Tressa Eaton from Serious Eats says, «Urban fruit - harvesting engages a community, makes community members aware of their own local (and often organic) food resources, provides an opportunity for neighbors to meet over the boughs of fruit trees, and brings up important questions about public space.

Born in the city and raised with the luxuries associated with urban living, I have never been one for camping, hiking in the woods, or climbing trees in apple orchards.

For the 16th year, the City of Albany was recognized as a «Tree City USA,» that status achieved by maintaining a tree board or department, having a community tree ordinance, spending at least $ 2 per capita on urban forestry and celebrating Arbor Tree City USA,» that status achieved by maintaining a tree board or department, having a community tree ordinance, spending at least $ 2 per capita on urban forestry and celebrating Arbor tree board or department, having a community tree ordinance, spending at least $ 2 per capita on urban forestry and celebrating Arbor tree ordinance, spending at least $ 2 per capita on urban forestry and celebrating Arbor Day.

• Restoration Tree Trust, which provides trees for urban and rural areas.

«If so, improved tree hydration could become a higher priority for urban forestry management.»

Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects of different types of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning policies.

In a typical urban area with a high level of background air pollution — for example, around 15 micrograms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) per cubic metre, or a nitrogen dioxide concentration around 33 micrograms per cubic metre — an extra 300 trees per square kilometre was associated with around 50 fewer emergency asthma cases per 100,000 residents over the 15 year study period.

As the earth continues to warm due to the buildup of greenhouse gases, heat waves are expected to become more severe, particularly for cities, where concrete and a dearth of trees create what's known as the urban heat island effect.

On the other hand, they say the city could grow even more resilient due to the ongoing efforts to reduce the urban heat island effect — for instance through programs to install reflective roofs and plant trees, as well as to protect vulnerable populations through heat warning systems and the availability of cooling centers.

Hurrah for your look at the benefits of urban trees, so relevant to my own worries about the loss of...

Urban park inventory and diversity assessments are essential to understand tree population structures and the plant diversity status of the park and provide information for biodiversity recovery planning.

It is also to develop and design, 3D urban tree inventory systems for management.

As such urban tree inventory would be the first step in planning and managing the urban forest for its functions and value in creating a balanced environment.

«If trees were to be established throughout their potential cover area, they would serve to filter air and water pollutants and reduce building energy use, and improve human well - being while providing habitat and resources for other species in the urban area.»

«We'll lose some of those flowers for this season,» says Nina Bassuk, director of the Urban Horticulture Institute, about prematurely flowering trees in the U.S. northeast.

In southern California, for example, the invasive shot hole borer has killed thousands of city trees and poses a threat to 33 percent of the urban tree population in the region.

«One of the factors driving the low per capita rating for California city trees could be the fact that 20 of the nation's 100 most densely populated cities are in California, meaning there's a higher volume of people in a confined space for trees,» said Natalie van Doorn, study co-author and research urban ecologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station.

Unexpectedly, they found a significant size difference between urban and rural trees, even after accounting for factors such as temperature and nutrient levels, they report in the 10 July issue of Nature.

Matt Ritter at California Polytechnic State University was writing up a description of the Cook pine (Araucaria columnaris) for a book on the urban trees of California when he realised that the pines always leaned south.

The study, involving hundreds of people, found benefits for mental health of being able to see birds, shrubs and trees around the home, whether people lived in urban or more leafy suburban neighbourhoods.

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In cherries, gingham, and sweet lil» palm trees to be exact because the brand's partnered with Champion for Urban Outfitters and yep, it's cute as hell.

While urban youth search parks, yards, and tree - lined streets for birds such as the barn swallow, the American crow, and the mourning dove, young birders in the suburbs and rural areas do the same.

Equally, the charity, Trees for Cities, is aiming to plant one million trees in urban areas by Trees for Cities, is aiming to plant one million trees in urban areas by trees in urban areas by 2020.

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To put it simply this one is an urban crossover for the tree huggers.

For instance, because my main character is a little tree from the wild who [SPOILER ALERT] ends up in a city, I attended an urban forestry community meeting looking for networking opportunities theFor instance, because my main character is a little tree from the wild who [SPOILER ALERT] ends up in a city, I attended an urban forestry community meeting looking for networking opportunities thefor networking opportunities there.

American Forests is a world leader in tree planting for environmental restoration, a pioneer in advancing the science and practice of urban forestry and a primary communicator of the benefits of trees and forests.

If your urban home is too small for cat trees, another option is to install carpeted shelving on the walls at various heights so your cat can use these to explore.

Join Up With Trees, Tulsa's non-profit urban forestry leader, and leave a green legacy for future generations.

Spending time in forests is immensely good for us urban dwellers, with mental and physical benefits, from breathing in the clear, fresh air among the trees to turning our phones to airplane mode for once!

The cottages that can accommodate groups are surrounded by trees and mountains and are ideal for those who want to escape the pollution and noise of urban centers.

In the 1960s, this desert region 140 miles east of Los Angeles, famous for its gnarled, pleasingly grotesque trees and lunar - like boulders, began luring artists and musicians hoping to escape the urban glare.

Lastly, when you utilize an urban salvaged tree that had to come down for some reason other than turning it into lumber, we offset the need to cut down trees out of our natural forests to create these same end products.

On view June 18: — Everything you are I am not: Latin American contemporary art from the Tiroche deLeon Collection — threeASFOUR: Tree of Life — Bradley Theodore — Mana Urban Arts Project presents How and Nosm: At the Center of It All Special programming: — In Search of The Truth presented by Cause Collective — 2PM to 4PM: Drop in to Gary Lichtenstein Editions on Mana's 2nd floor for an encaustic demonstration with Leslie Giuliani, followed by a silkscreen demonstration with Gary Lichtenstein.

Contributors include: Vito Acconci, designer; Kai - Uwe Bergmann, Partner, Business Development at BIG; Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University; Ariane Lourie Harrison, principal of Harrison Atelier and a critic and lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture; Seth Harrison, principal of Harrison Atelier and founder of Apple Tree Partners; media artist Brian House; poet Rachel Levitsky; artist, designer and founder of The Center for Urban Pedagogy Damon Rich; artist Martha Rosler; Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Pratt Institute's School of Architecture, Meredith Tenhoor; modular synthesizer artist Ben Vida; and musician C. Spencer Yeh.

Photographer Alan Gaynor and painter Bob Tomlinson present flowers in a new light.Renee Borkow shows urban nature and Arlene Finger depicts limbs of trees reaching up in search of new leaves at the start of spring, a time for growth and renewal.

For many years, photographer Benjamin Swett has captured the trees that make up New York City's urban forest.

The tree paintings, for their part, occupy a space that is harder to define, a zone that endures beyond the explicitly urban identities and histories explored elsewhere in the show.

Contributions by: Vito Acconci, designer; Diana Balmori, Landscape and Urban Designer; Kai - Uwe Bergmann, Partner, Business Development at BIG; Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University; Ariane Lourie Harrison, principal of Harrison Atelier and a critic and lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture; Seth Harrison, principal of Harrison Atelier and founder of Apple Tree Partners; media artist Brian House; poet Rachel Levitsky; artist, designer and founder of The Center for Urban Pedagogy Damon Rich; Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Pratt Institute's School of Architecture, Meredith TenHoor; modular synthesizer artist Ben Vida; and musician C. Spencer Yeh.

The second sculptor in the shortlist, Martin Boyce, creates installations inspired by concrete trees made for a 1925 modernist exhibition which are described as «evoking the urban landscape».

Today's feature, «Slippery Shelves» by Cambium Studio, are available in bamboo, though can also be built with other sustainable woods like coconut palm, FSC - certified walnut, and salvaged urban trees, and they're designed for people on the move.

Hexagro Urban Farming has been working on the Living Farming Tree for several years, and was picked as one of the finalists in the 2015 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, but now the team is looking to take its system to the public with a crowdfunding campaign.

It also provides fruit and nut trees to people in urban areas and hopes to eventually win national protection for forests as wilderness sanctuaries.

Right there and then, through a Facebook Live video, I asked for help, which quickly came from Tom Kimmerer, a friend of a friend who's an expert on saving «venerable» urban trees.

Platforms such as local forums or Craigslist are an alternative method of finding local foods, but they don't tend to be a place to find wild edibles or fruit trees that are growing on public properties, so urban foragers looking for ripe local fruits rely on word of mouth (and many of them are unwilling to disclose their favorite locations) or local food maps, which can take quite a bit of work to put together.