Sentences with phrase «on urban trees»

I asked Marshall Curry, the film's director, to weigh in on urban trees and activism.

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.

One factor is that researchers have found warmer temperatures increase the number of young produced by the gloomy scale insect — a significant tree pest — by 300 percent, which in turn leads to 200 times more adult gloomy scales on urban trees.

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He's a California native with Texas coaching roots and a B1G pedigree on the Urban Meyer tree, plus he's already winning recruiting battles against bigger programs.

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.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

Insufficient water not only harms trees, but allows other problems to have an outsized effect on trees in urban environments.

«We would see some vibrant urban trees covered in scale insects, but we'd also see other clearly stressed and struggling urban trees covered in scale insects,» says Emily Meineke, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard and first author of a paper on the study.

The study into the impact of urban greenery on asthma suggests that respiratory health can be improved by the expansion of tree cover in very polluted urban neighbourhoods.

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.

The other, smaller and more urban, sat on a forlorn stretch of dust - covered road pocked by squat houses and occasional palm trees on Phoenix's south side.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

Also ASCD faculty in the differentiated instruction cadre, and a Solution Tree consultant and author on two books in press, Nanci has provided professional development in small, large, urban, rural, and suburban districts in 47 states, as well as the Netherlands, Singapore, and Japan.

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The heroines who seized my heart belonged to the sophisticated urban settings of Wouk's Youngblood Hawke and Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Joy in the Morning; if precocious girls elsewhere, poised on the verge of puberty, were reading Austen or the Brontës, I didn't know it and I doubt I would have cared.

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.

This is the latest project of several to generate greater biodiversity on the NHES campus and increase the urban tree canopy of Jefferson County.

The Chicago Blackhawks shot a video supporting pet adoption at the Tree House Humane Society, and here at Urban Outsitters on Randolph, where Lake Shore Animal Shelter dogs are.

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.

Whether you're taking part in a walking tour with Urban Safaris or hoofing throughout the city on your own, consider strolling the hilly, palm tree - lined streets of Mission Hills; the canyons of Presidio Park; or the winding sidewalks hugging Mission Bay Park, where you can also rent pedal boats, kayaks and WaveRunners.

Tikal is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya Civilization added Joe Awe, as I pointed a troop of howler monkeys hanging out on a giant cedar tree to David.

In Assassin's Creed 3 Pc Game, Free travel is simplified to a more fluid parkour urban and natural environments, such as climbing and racing on trees, mountains, rocks, etc..

On view May 7: — Ayn Foundation presents Arnulf Rainer — The T'ang Horse: Anthony Quinn — threeASFOUR: Tree of Life — Bradley Theodore — Mana Urban Arts Project presents How and Nosm: At the Center of It All

First in New York, in 1977, and since then in every urban nook and cranny, on billboards and stickers, on monuments and trees.

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 LichtensteiOn 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 Lichtensteion Mana's 2nd floor for an encaustic demonstration with Leslie Giuliani, followed by a silkscreen demonstration with Gary Lichtenstein.

Though Popp often performs on urban streets or at building sites — where her interventions are unannounced and sometimes disrupted — at Lynden she has had the opportunity to study the grounds over the course of three residencies to choose a path through the trees.

As urban development closes in on them, New York's trees surprisingly continue to thrive.

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.

Taylor's meditations on the relationship between humanity and nature take place amongst the urban grit; in Van Cortlandt a tree produces a tumorous growth over a metal plate; in Brooklyn Navy Yard a tree stump is entangled in a chain link fence; in Kelso ivy infiltrates an interior wall; in Laocoon a broken - branched tree is set off by the brilliant colors of a polluted sky.

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.

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.

Friends of the Urban Forest Through its Urban Forestry Program, Friends of the Urban Forest provides training and hands - on internships in Urban Tree Care for youth ages 14 - 18.

On Earth Day this year, the school organized the Tree Planting Steps event at the Paked Urban Forest Park near Bangkok.

Tokyo, for example, has been planting trees and shrubs on the rooftops of buildings to help offset the urban heat island effect and cool the city.

Its tasks are to develop a comprehensive urban forest plan; educate the public; develop tree - care standards; identify funding needs, staffing needs, and opportunities for urban forest programs; secure adequate resources for urban forest programs; facilitate coordination of tree - management responsibilities among agencies; and report on the state of the urban forest.

The report, «The Value of Shade: Estimating the Effect of Urban Trees on Summertime Electricity Use,» has been submitted for publication to the journal Energy and Buildings.

Urbanization is on the rise; so is the urban heat island effect — a situation that is worsening with the decline of tree cover in U.S. metropolitan areas

On International Day of Forests, Sarah Weber looks at how Tokyo, Belfast and Washington, D.C. have integrated trees into their urban landscapes.

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.

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.

Now, being a curious bunny, Eli wanted to see where this was, and he had a map from «Trends in twentieth century tree growth at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains, USA from Bunn, Graumlich and Urban to go on.

The Urban Forest program at SF Environment seeks to promote a healthier, sustainable urban forest in San Francisco by implementing the Urban Forestry Council Ordinance, promoting education and outreach programs, providing information on tree management, and developing innovative funding strategies for urban foreUrban Forest program at SF Environment seeks to promote a healthier, sustainable urban forest in San Francisco by implementing the Urban Forestry Council Ordinance, promoting education and outreach programs, providing information on tree management, and developing innovative funding strategies for urban foreurban forest in San Francisco by implementing the Urban Forestry Council Ordinance, promoting education and outreach programs, providing information on tree management, and developing innovative funding strategies for urban foreUrban Forestry Council Ordinance, promoting education and outreach programs, providing information on tree management, and developing innovative funding strategies for urban foreurban forestry.

The trees that shade the parks and gardens and line the urban streets — London planes, limes, magnolias, pines and so on — are known to add to property values and to make living conditions better for millions who must endure the increasing heat extremes of the urban world.

Begin a program of greater densification in cities built around car - free neighbourhoods, and a massive program of urban farming with citizen gardens, orchards of fruit and nut trees on streets.

5.6 Million Urban Shade Trees Killed in Texas The effects of the driest year on record for Texas are still being tabulated, with the latest info being this figure above, representing 10 % of the state's urban forests and is in addition to the 500 million trees killed by drought as reported in DeceUrban Shade Trees Killed in Texas The effects of the driest year on record for Texas are still being tabulated, with the latest info being this figure above, representing 10 % of the state's urban forests and is in addition to the 500 million trees killed by drought as reported in DeceTrees Killed in Texas The effects of the driest year on record for Texas are still being tabulated, with the latest info being this figure above, representing 10 % of the state's urban forests and is in addition to the 500 million trees killed by drought as reported in Deceurban forests and is in addition to the 500 million trees killed by drought as reported in Decetrees killed by drought as reported in December.

From reducing air pollution and saving energy to mitigating climate change, researchers place a price tag on the work that urban trees perform.

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Given the multiple benefits — both local and global — of urban trees, this may even be one of those environmental issues that manages to cross party lines and get everyone on board.