One thing that I love about the city I live currently is that the local goverment decided a decade ago to create green corridors, and it has been a global sample.
Here is a BBC article about it and also a picture I just took from where I'm currently living, which is a 7th floors building, I'm currently at the 5th level and you can see how the tree goes even taller.
Thanks for writing this and continue to inspire us.
Thank you, what a fantastic example from Medellin! Thanks for sharing. I love the idea of green corridors with mixed story woodland strips. The tree next to your apartment is magnificent!
I agree that we need more trees, but towns and cities which are already built don't have the spaces to plant trees. I think that new housing developments should include trees in their plans.Something which concerns me even more is that few parks and open spaces are planting new trees to compensate for the old ones which won't last for ever. I live close to a National Trust property - a lovely piece of park land with huge mature trees but without any half grown ones - and only a very few young ones have been planted in recent years. I remember, back in 1973 that there was a slogan 'Plant a tree in 73' - and communities, schools and councils were encouraged to do just that. I was teaching at the time and we planted native trees around the perimeter of our playing field. 1974 followed with 'Plant some more in 74'.
We've missed the rhymes of tree and three, four and more for this decade, but I think a National Tree Planting Scheme should be reinstated. It's no good waiting 2033 or 2034. The need is now.
Very wise, yes I guess it will mostly be around new developments. Places like King’s Cross in London have missed a trick with its lack of large trees between the large buildings.
I really like the rhyming for tree planting, I wonder what we can find that rhymes with seven! Tree heaven for 27!
Yes! I'm always moaning to my husband about the tiny crab apples, rowan and ornamental cherries that they've planted in our urban neighbourhood in Cheltenham. We have a few hornbeams which were planted years ago and they are such a welcome presence. But all the newer parts of town are severely lacking in tree canopies and where they are planting trees they will never grow tall enough to provide shade and cooling.
We can and we absolutely should be planting more in our cities. We need ways to make our cities more livable, we need to adapt to climate change, we need to help wildlife in any way we can, and so on. Trees easily take care of all these.
One thing that I love about the city I live currently is that the local goverment decided a decade ago to create green corridors, and it has been a global sample.
Here is a BBC article about it and also a picture I just took from where I'm currently living, which is a 7th floors building, I'm currently at the 5th level and you can see how the tree goes even taller.
Thanks for writing this and continue to inspire us.
Article
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230922-how-medellin-is-beating-the-heat-with-green-corridors
Photo:
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Thank you, what a fantastic example from Medellin! Thanks for sharing. I love the idea of green corridors with mixed story woodland strips. The tree next to your apartment is magnificent!
Hear, hear, we definitely should be emulating our continental neighbours.
Yes, it's exciting to share information on what's happening across Europe.
I agree that we need more trees, but towns and cities which are already built don't have the spaces to plant trees. I think that new housing developments should include trees in their plans.Something which concerns me even more is that few parks and open spaces are planting new trees to compensate for the old ones which won't last for ever. I live close to a National Trust property - a lovely piece of park land with huge mature trees but without any half grown ones - and only a very few young ones have been planted in recent years. I remember, back in 1973 that there was a slogan 'Plant a tree in 73' - and communities, schools and councils were encouraged to do just that. I was teaching at the time and we planted native trees around the perimeter of our playing field. 1974 followed with 'Plant some more in 74'.
We've missed the rhymes of tree and three, four and more for this decade, but I think a National Tree Planting Scheme should be reinstated. It's no good waiting 2033 or 2034. The need is now.
Very wise, yes I guess it will mostly be around new developments. Places like King’s Cross in London have missed a trick with its lack of large trees between the large buildings.
I really like the rhyming for tree planting, I wonder what we can find that rhymes with seven! Tree heaven for 27!
keep it simple - Plant seven for 2027 - or why not get ambitious and say Plant Eleven for 27.
Yes! I'm always moaning to my husband about the tiny crab apples, rowan and ornamental cherries that they've planted in our urban neighbourhood in Cheltenham. We have a few hornbeams which were planted years ago and they are such a welcome presence. But all the newer parts of town are severely lacking in tree canopies and where they are planting trees they will never grow tall enough to provide shade and cooling.
It's a real shame isn't it - as with everything, variety is the spice of life and that seems to apply to tree size as well.
Totally agree about big trees, awesome, beautiful and vitally important in so many ways.
We can and we absolutely should be planting more in our cities. We need ways to make our cities more livable, we need to adapt to climate change, we need to help wildlife in any way we can, and so on. Trees easily take care of all these.
It's an easy win, isn't it. They just need space, then the trees take care of the rest themselves.
Because stooopid rules 😵💫
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We simply need to plant more trees in cities and towns