Sentences with phrase «more urban forests»

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«We also take more seriously the right of the small sheep - owners in big forests to continue to live «where they belong» on a traditional level as ecologically on a higher level than their urban critics» («Encouraging» 54).

More laws awaiting approval will open up environmental protection zones and forests to construction, further intensifying the government's obsession to turn the country's environmental resources and urban heritage into profitable assets.

Given the shared urban and historical pattern, the researchers also predicted that scale insects would be more abundant in rural forests today than in the past, as a result of recent climate warming.

Mayan communities alternated urban living with fields sheltered by forests, in contrast with today's paved cities, which are more like man - made deserts.

They found that city lizards could cling to objects like walls and windows, meaning they use the full urban environment instead of restricting themselves to wild patches more similar to their forest roots.

«However, the fact remains that more can be done and will need to be done in light of the recent tree mortality epidemics plaguing some of our urban forests.»

However, according to a recent study, more benefits could be realized if the Golden State's urban forests didn't have the lowest canopy cover per capita in the nation.

They found that city lizards regularly clung to objects like walls and windows, proving that they use the full urban environment instead of restricting themselves to wild patches more similar to their forest roots.

The Short Version: Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF) unites thousands of people in a citywide effort to make San... (read more)

A peaceful urban forest that gives life to its city is in danger to lose even more land due to the unquenchable voracity of real state developers and the passivity of the local authorities.

They utilize a wide range of habitat from grasslands to deserts to forests and more recently, urban parks and neighborhoods.

The tasting advice in this Costa Rican chocolate forest carried over to my more mercantile, urban experience in search of coffee.

2006 The Downtown Show, The New York Art Scene 1974 - 1984, New York University Grey Art Gallery, New York, US Onestar Shop by Hans Schabus, Art Metropole, Toronto, CA Public Space / Two Audiences, Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ES Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, NO Location Shots, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, BE Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, FR Cerealart, Cerealart Lounge Pier 90, The Armory Show, New York, US Artists for Chinati, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, US The Early Show: Video from 1969 - 1979, curated by Constance De Jong, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, US Onestar Press, The First Five Years, The Engholm Engelhorn Gallerie, Vienna, AT Message Personnel, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR Not Quite Ten Years Without Martin Kippenberger, a project by Chris Hamond, Bar MOT for Kippenberger (MOT), London, UK That Was Then This Is Now, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL Czesław Miłosz / To Allen Ginsberg, Dvir Gallery, Tel - Aviv, IL Mental Image - Wortwerke und Textbilder, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, CH Conceptual Comics, curated by AA Bronson, Max Schumann, Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff Alberta, CA Libri Books Bücher, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Torino), IT The Shape of Sound, Radio Arte Mobile, Sound Art Museum, Rome, IT Wall Works - Sol LeWitt, C.A. Swintak, Lawrence Weiner, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, CA I: An Exhibition in Three Acts, Futura Gallery, Prague, CZ I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, Lithographs, Publications and Ephemera from The Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Printed Matter, Inc., New York, US On the Ball, Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, DE Group Exhibition, curated by Peter Kogler, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, AT The Title As The Curator's Art Piece, A Summer Show by Mathieu Copeland (spoken word exhibition), Blow de la Barra, London, UK Into Me / Out Of Me, curated Klaus Bisenbach, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, US; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE A Bit Of Matter And A Little Bit More, screening Turtle, curated by Michael Shamberg, Chelsea Space, London, UK Moving On: Motion, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE The Known and the Unknown, Gallerie Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK As If By Magic, Bethlehem Peace Center, West Bank & Art School Palestine, Palestine, IL The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, US The Urban Forest Project, Times Square Information Station, Times Square, New York, US Word, curated by L. Brandon Krall, Deborah Colton Gallery, New York, US Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, curated by Jean - Marc Bustamante, City of Toulouse, FR Contraband, curated by Carolina Grau, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR São Paulo Bienale, Escola São Paulo, São Paulo, BR Busy Going Crazy, collection Sylvio Perlstein, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR The RxArt Ball, New York, US The Title As The Curator's Art Piece (spoken word exhibition) curated by Matthieu Copeland, Blow de la Barra, London, UK Concrete Language, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA Project 2023 - Arteast Collection 2000 +23, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, SL Break Even, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, US Open, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US Wrestle, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annadale - on - Hudson, New York, US Ideal City - Invisible Cities, curated by Sabrina von der Ley & Markus Richter, Europe Projects, Zamość, PL Into A Journey, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, DE Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery Of Images, designed by John Baldessari, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, US Art Metropole: The Top 100, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA Poster, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US Pandora's Reisen, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Dedica - 20 Anni Della Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, curated by Julia Draganovic, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, IT Good Riddance, curated by Claire Davies & Sam Gathercole, MOT, London, UK Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, curated by Susan Davidson, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, CN Not For Sale, curated by Alanna Heiss, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US Il Faut Rendre À Cézanne, The Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR

Among previous projects are A Certain Slant of Light (2014 - 15), a large - scale installation at The Morgan Library & Museum inspired by its collection of medieval Books of Hours; Trying To Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning (2014), composed of 2,983 individual watercolors representing the artist's recollection of the sky on September 11, 2001; There Is Another Sky (2014), which transformed a formerly dark alley into an urban forest sanctuary at South Lake Union, Seattle; Painting Air (2012), an installation of more than 100 panels of suspended glass inspired by the colors of Claude Monet's garden at Giverny; and The River That Flows Both Ways (2009), a permanent installation composed of an existing series of windows transformed with 700 individual panes of glass representing the water conditions on the Hudson River over 700 minutes in a single day.

For more than 30 years, the Forest Project has offered paid, summer internships in the increasingly relevant discipline of woodland and urban ecology.

Living many years at the margin of old logging, more recent logging, a ridgeline overlooking an alluvial valley where a small city is growing and similar cities extend to the horizon in inland coastal range mountains in CA, I am reminded often of the coolness in the tall forest contrasting to the heat generated on sunny days where forests are discontinuous because of logging or absent because of urban growth.

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This is probably a confusion with the urban heating issue, but the actual impact is the opposite — croplands have a higher albedo than forests, reflect more solar radiation, and are thus cooler.

The Midwest has a population of more than 61 million people (about 20 % of the national total) and generates a regional gross domestic product of more than $ 2.6 trillion (about 19 % of the national total).14 The Midwest is home to expansive agricultural lands, forests in the north, the Great Lakes, substantial industrial activity, and major urban areas, including eight of the nation's 50 most populous cities.

More than 400 programs in 62 countries invested in the natural ability of forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other ecosystems to ensure clean, reliable water supplies for cities and communities, and to combat threats from rapid urban expansion and agricultural pollution.

It also predicts the consequences of a more innovative approach to wood product design, supply and marketing, as well as to forest management; and outlines win - win opportunities in developing the use of harvest residues, recovered wood and landscape care wood from urban and highway trees.

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.

Based on a study from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture, we estimate that using forest and urban wood waste, as well as some perennial crops such as switchgrass and fast - growing trees on nonagricultural land, the United States could develop more than 40 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity by 2020, roughly four times the current level.

Tree Canada has planted more than 80 million trees, greened more than 550 schoolyards and have helped in the greening of urban forests in over 500 communities across the country, leaving a legacy that is benefitting all Canadians.

Return the tree after the holidays, and Friends of the Urban Forest will plant it in a neighborhood that needs more trees.

more efficient community use of water, land, forests and other natural resources, improving access and reducing emissions (e.g., conservation of water in urban areas reduces energy used in moving and heating water);

The more notable examples include long - rotational forest management, fish farming and tourism, as well as the potential for replicating the experience of Manaus to create urban economies based on technology and services.

Diverse studies of global land cover and potential productivity suggest that anywhere from 600 million to more than 7 billion additional acres of underutilized rural lands are available for expanding rain - fed crop production around the world, after excluding the 4 billion acres of cropland currently in use, as well as the world's supply of closed forests, nature reserves, and urban lands.

Urban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouUrban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resouurban water resources.

Plant more of Toyota's forest of floral urban recharge stations here.

Via kind tipster Jamie Woolley and an article on Greenpeace More on Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70 % Amazon Deforestation Grows in August, Brazil Says Could Stop in 2015 Amazon Condoms To Preserve Forests and Reduce Imports in Brazil Brazil to Develop Satellite to Monitor Deforestation, Urban Expansion Brazilian Banks, Forbidden to Give Loans to Illegal Loggers

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Undertaking in - depth studies of one or more of climate change, urban environments, forests, land and marine resources