Sentences with phrase «urban trees from»

One such Member of Knesset, Ophir Pines - Paz, recently got a law passed that will protect urban trees from the tractors of land developers and building contractors.

So we made urban trees from all sorts of wood, strips of cloth, broken pieces of glass and iron we found in the street.

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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.

New research from North Carolina State University finds that urban warming reduces growth and photosynthesis in city trees.

-- 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.

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 there.

Annapolis Gardens is settled in a serene, tree - lined part of Annapolis where you'll feel liberated from the pressures of urban life and all of its problems.

A recently constructed 65 - by - 25 grassy, outdoor play area, complete with shady trees, is an amenity that differentiates Odyssey Pets from many urban day care and boarding facilities.

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!

Behind a stark urban façade, another world unwinds in slow motion, reminiscent of a scene from the Swiss Family Robinson: wood - and - thatch dwellings, screened by banana trees, form a quadrangle crisscrossed by rustic stairs and wood - railed balcony porches.

Around the sleek, monochrome façade climbs a vertical garden of 300 palm trees and natural vegetation originating from five continents, providing a natural oasis in the urban landscape.

And the landscape is constantly changing, from glaciers to palm trees, and from mountain peaks to urban city centers.»

PH: Urban Ashes is built upon an extensive network of supply chains, ranging from urban salvaged wood sourced through our mill to trees individually salvaged from home owners, businesses and municipaliUrban Ashes is built upon an extensive network of supply chains, ranging from urban salvaged wood sourced through our mill to trees individually salvaged from home owners, businesses and municipaliurban salvaged wood sourced through our mill to trees individually salvaged from home owners, businesses and municipalities.

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.

November 9, 2014 - February 21, 2015 Opening reception: Sunday, November 9, 2014, 3 - 5 pm Managing Trees: A Walk Around Lynden with Bob Retko and Todd Johnson: Sunday, November 16, 2014, 2:30 - 3:30 pm Urban Wood Encounters: From Tree To Table, Saturday, January 24, 2015, 1 pm - 3:15 pm

From long walks in remote Japanese or American woodlands and Europe, to urban forests such as Central Park in New York or the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, Takeshi Shikama trained his lens to capture fleeting moments of living things: plants and flowers about to wither, flowing streams or shadows cast by trees.

Larger - than - life - sized photographs of Cindy Sherman were hung among the trees greeted guess and a Fashion Institute of Technology's installation «Fowl Play» was transported from its urban setting to commune with guests in a natural setting.

Its relative scarcity could probably be interpreted as a rejection of the natural world of grass and trees, so alien to both urban life and the extra-terrestrial ambitions of abstract art; and at times, as in Mondrian's triumphant trinity of primary colors, its banishment from the artist's palette seemed absolute.

Artist - engineer Natalie Jeremijenko is creating nature - oriented, scalable projects: the Farmacy urban - agriculture initiative, «tree offices,» and pencils made from — and...

In one art, Gallaccio's aesthetic act is to move the tree from its normal outdoor environment to an urban industrial building adapted as an exhibition space.

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.

Expertise: Community building, marketing, media relations, urban beekeeping, visual arts Credentials: Developed the award - winning Homegrown National Park Project and Got Milkweed campaign; volunteer with The Laneway Project, LEAF, Friends of Christie Pits and Not Far From the Tree Passion: Leading community art projects, from musical bike parades and pop - up comedy shows to scale solar systems in city pFrom the Tree Passion: Leading community art projects, from musical bike parades and pop - up comedy shows to scale solar systems in city pfrom musical bike parades and pop - up comedy shows to scale solar systems in city parks

Through increasing the city's tree canopy from 5 to 30 percent, Barcelona will enjoy a cooler urban atmosphere, better air quality, and increased biodiversity.

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.

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

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 aim is to enable communities (rural and urban) to preserve more trees, burn less kerosene, and reduce poisonous fumes inside their homes (from cooking and heating).

Summer heat, plus nitrous oxides (primarily from fuel combustion), plus VOCs (some naturally produced by trees and others from urban sources) produce Ozone which is held in our area by inversion layers.

According to a report from Science Daily, the study conducted by researchers from the U.S. Forest Service revealed that some urban trees may actually reduce incidences of property crimes and acts of violence.

From three million trees planted in Mexico City to an industrial engineer planting mini-forests in Indian cities, there are some hopeful signs that urban forestry may be undergoing a global revival.

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

The present median benefit value from urban trees in all 10 megacities can be estimated as $ 482 million / yr due to reductions in CO, NO2, SO2, PM10, and PM2.5, $ 11 million / yr due to avoided stormwater processing by wastewater facilities, $ 0.5 million / yr due to building energy heating and cooling savings, and $ 8 million / yr due to CO2 sequestration.

Cities in the United States are increasingly seeing concrete in place of greenery as urban areas lose an estimated 36m trees annually, according to a study from the Forest Service.

In our Minneapolis based shop we transform the logs from fallen urban trees into high - quality hardwoods.

Wood From the Hood was born with a simple idea: Reclaim discarded trees from urban neighborhoods to create beautiful, high - quality hardwoFrom the Hood was born with a simple idea: Reclaim discarded trees from urban neighborhoods to create beautiful, high - quality hardwofrom urban neighborhoods to create beautiful, high - quality hardwoods.

As this clip from Geoff Lawton's Urban Permaculture DVD shows, rocket stoves work best on thin bits of wood, which makes them ideal for utilizing scrap wood waste and / or tree prunings and coppiced wood.

Although the definition of «urban» is quirky, it would be interesting to subtract from the tree sequestration values, carbon lost from trees cut to make way for sprawl.

For example, before recycled paper existed, it made sense to locate your factory near the raw material — trees — far from urban centers.