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Introducing the 3-30-300 rule: promoting health and wellbeing through urban forests

Better Society

Introducing the 3-30-300 rule: promoting health and wellbeing through urban forests

The recommended “rules” are that every citizen should be able to see a minimum of 3 trees from their home, with…

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Madrid is Planting a Massive Forest Ring Around the City to Combat Climate Change

Sustainable Planet

Madrid is Planting a Massive Forest Ring Around the City to Combat Climate Change

The Spanish capital is building a 75-kilometre green wall around the city—an urban forest of nearly half a million new trees—in…

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How preventing the urban “Heat Island Effect” can help cool down cities and even decrease flooding

Sustainable Planet

How preventing the urban “Heat Island Effect” can help cool down cities and even decrease flooding

With an increasing number of towns and cities either sweltering with the summer heat, or suffering from flooding, the phenomenon of…

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Fast-growing mini-forests are springing up around Europe to aid biodiversity and climate

Sustainable Planet

Fast-growing mini-forests are springing up around Europe to aid biodiversity and climate

Pioneered by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, now Europeans are planting these small but dense urban forests to help boost biodiversity and…

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