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Urban Mini-forests Can Reinvent How Cities Grow, Learn, and Respond to Climate Stress
✍️ Rafael Ribeiro & Sheila Ceccon — São Paulo 🇧🇷
What if climate resilience began with tiny forests in schoolyards and vacant lots? 🌳
In São Paulo, mini-forests are cooling streets, restoring biodiversity, and building community care. Small scale. Big impact. 🌱
Our Citizen Science team is taking root!🌱
Made up of volunteers, ecology experts & #TreeEquity Ambassadors, our #CitizenScience program seeks to track the overall forest health & growth of our #MiniForests as well as engage the broader community around biodiversity and the important role of trees!
You can learn more about out #CitizenScience initiative on our blog! #yyc https://www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/mini_forest_citizen_science_training_day
Helping to plant a new Miyawaki “mini-forest” yesterday with City staff and volunteers. Part of both our Climate Action Strategy and our Urban Forest Strategy, these densely planted mini-forests help absorb carbon, manage stormwater and create habitat in constrained urban spaces (learn more about them at https://tinyurl.com/3c85kvnb)
#climateaction #climatechange #ecology #miniforests #biodiversity
A new project in the city of Charlottetown is trying to grow small forests faster, using high density planting and native species. The technique is called the Miyawaki method, named for the Japanese ecologist and botanist who developed the idea of mini forests, and how to grow them, in the 1970s.
The Nature of Cities
Bentley
Calgary Climate Hub
trc 🇨🇦 🏴 🏴 🇦🇲
Jason Thorne
Peter V. Tretter ✅ 🇨🇦
Jasper 🍉