Sentences with phrase «include urban trees»

Other cooling strategies include urban trees, which provide shade, and reflective roofs and walls, which absorb less sunlight.

Not exact matches

Her team is working with a number of Puget Sound urban areas, including Olympia, Tacoma, Seattle and Bainbridge Island, to map tree cover and explore socioeconomic issues related to having greater or fewer trees in a neighborhood.

«Conservation efforts in current forests should include retention of mature trees, and planners should consider retention of larger trees in urban, residential and agricultural uses to maintain «natural capital,»» Hanberry said.

Since her internship she has worked with many organizations including Tree Frog Treks as an after school hands - on science teacher; Friends of the Urban Forest as a Planting Manager organizing community tree planting events; and the National Parks Service as a seasonal Biological Technician working on Fire Effects research in Point Reyes National SeashTree Frog Treks as an after school hands - on science teacher; Friends of the Urban Forest as a Planting Manager organizing community tree planting events; and the National Parks Service as a seasonal Biological Technician working on Fire Effects research in Point Reyes National Seashtree planting events; and the National Parks Service as a seasonal Biological Technician working on Fire Effects research in Point Reyes National Seashore.

The most important international architects and urban designers meet in Bergamo during the festival and beautifully decorate the main squares (including Piazza Mascheroni, in front of Relais San Lorenzo) and streets with a wide variety of plants, trees and flowers.

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.

During the next 25 years he produced several bodies of personal work including Chemical Plants, 1989, a photo essay shot in petrochemical facilities; Subway Portraits, 2002 - 03, a response to 9/11; and Brooklyn Shadows, 2006 - 08, images of barren trees projected onto the raw, urban canvas of concrete and asphalt.

Mitch Epstein «s new book, «New York Arbor» includes photographs of the idiosyncratic trees that inhabit New York City; these pictures underscore the importance of trees to urban life and their complex relationship to their human counterparts.

However, by including such figurative works as «Figure at Window with Boat» (1964) and the later mythic paintings, «Figure, Boat, Clouds» (1971) and «Figure with Tree» (1972), the exhibition suggests that there are more sides to Bischoff's figurative paintings than his urban scenes, and the full extent of what he did between 1952 and» 72, is still unknown, particularly on the East Coast.

These include forest industry byproducts, sugar industry byproducts, urban waste, livestock waste, energy crops, crop residues, and urban tree and yard wastes — all of which can be used for electrical generation, heating, or the production of automotive fuels.

concentrated on reducing its environmental impact through its own operations, including «virtually paperless» internal and customer transactions, and through engaging with local communities to support urban reforestation projects, helping to plant more than 100,000 trees around the country.

San Francisco has adopted several policies related to the care of our urban forest, including Tree Pruning Standards, the Recommended Street Tree List, and more.

In addition to the energy crops discussed in Chapter 2, these include forest industry byproducts, sugar industry byproducts, urban waste, livestock waste, plantations of fast - growing trees, crop residues, and urban tree and yard wastes — all of which can be used for electrical generation, heating, or the production of automotive fuels.

Examples of what we have accomplished include our Green Cities initiative to encourage environmentalism across India, visiting local schools to engage youth, and tree plantings in both urban and rural areas.

This thriving example of urban agriculture is one of many surprising sustainable initiatives at the Dizengoff Center shopping mall, which includes bird habitat, a tree nursery, rooftop apiary, and even a bat cave for native fruit bats to call home.

Urban forestry includes garden and farm trees, street trees, trees in parks and open spaces; woodlands, trees and woodlands along rivers and trees in farmland (agro-forestry).

While it's impossible to know exactly what benefits the urban trees bring us - including many psychological ones - the researchers have tried to estimate their impact using computer simulations.

LOTS more trees, including in urban areas wherever possible.