#moretrees — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #moretrees, aggregated by home.social.
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#HamiltonON - #MiniForest #Stewardship @ #DundasValley #MontessoriSchool
"With mini-forest stewardship well underway, come join us in maintaining the mini-forest at Dundas Valley Montessori School, located at 14 Kemp Dr, Dundas! We will be meeting on August 4 at 4 pm in front of the school, where we will get everyone set up and equipped. We will learn about the importance of mini-forests, their design and maintenance, then get into removing invasive plants or weeds in the young forest, plus identify the trees planted along the way."
To sign up:
https://www.greenventure.ca/miniforeststewardship#SolarPunkSunday #Ontario #OntarioEvents #MiniForestDesign #MiniForestMaintenance #GreenVentureCanada #MoreTrees #MoreGreenSpace
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@alexlac51 I'm all for that! Turn some of #tRump (and all the other) #GolfCourses into #CommunityGardens and #Rewild the rest!
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#Australia - #NationalTreeDay
Take part in Australia's largest #TreePlanting and nature care event.#SchoolsTreeDay
Friday 24th JulyNational #TreeDay
Sunday 26th July#TropicalTreeDay
Sunday 6th DecemberFMI:
https://nationaltreeday.org.au/#SolarPunkSunday #AustraliaEvents #PlantATree #MoreTrees #NatureCare #RestoreNature
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The #Science of #SolarPunk -- why we need #GreenerCities!
Equitable urban green space planning for sustainable cities: a GIS-based analysis of spatial disparities and functional strategies
Published: 02 July 2025
Sayyed Kifayatullah, Zafeer Saqib, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Muhammad Zaman-ul-Haq, Dmitry E. Kucher, Sajid Ullah & Aqil Tariq"Abstract:
#UrbanGreenSpaces (#UGS) are critical for fostering ecological sustainability and social equity in rapidly urbanizing cities like #Islamabad, #Pakistan. This study aimed to comprehensively map and classify Islamabad’s UGS, identify spatial disparities, and evaluate their ecological, recreational, and social functions. The research also proposed sustainable strategies for managing UGS to address urban challenges, including climate adaptation, biodiversity loss, and social inequity. The study developed a detailed spatial map of Islamabad’s UGS using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and high-resolution satellite imagery. Seven typologies were categorized and analyzed, including parks, playgrounds, institutional green spaces, and waterways. Field surveys and random sampling validated the thematic maps, achieving an accuracy rate of 95.68% based on statistical metrics like Kappa coefficients. The study revealed significant disparities in UGS distribution.
"Wealthier zones had larger, well-maintained green spaces, while denser areas lacked accessible and functional UGS. Recreational spaces, institutional greenery, and waterways played a vital role in enhancing biodiversity, urban aesthetics, and community well-being, though many remain underutilized or degraded. Institutional green spaces contributed significantly to urban sustainability, comprising 17.05 km² of the total UGS area. The research highlights UGS as an essential #NatureBasedSolution (#NBS) for addressing urban challenges like #HeatIslands, #stormwater management, and #SocialInequalities. The findings serve as a model for other rapidly urbanizing cities seeking #ecological and social balance.
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"Conclusion
[T]his study underscores the pivotal role of UGS in fostering ecological #sustainability, social equity, and urban resilience, particularly in rapidly urbanizing cities like Islamabad. By leveraging GIS and high-resolution satellite imagery, the research provides a detailed analysis of the spatial distribution, typologies, and functional value of #GreenSpaces across the city. The findings reveal striking disparities, where wealthier neighborhoods enjoy better-maintained parks and green belts, while densely populated and economically underprivileged areas often lack accessible and functional green spaces. This imbalance highlights the urgent need for equitable planning and management of urban greenery.
"The research affirms that UGS are more than aesthetic elements; they serve as vital ecological assets by regulating #UrbanMicroclimates, enhancing #biodiversity, managing stormwater, and mitigating the urban heat island effect. Socially, they contribute to community well-being by offering recreation, relaxation, and physical activity spaces. However, the study also identifies significant challenges, such as the uneven distribution, poor maintenance, and underutilization of certain green spaces, which limit their potential to deliver these benefits.
"To address these challenges, the study emphasizes the importance of integrating UGS into #UrbanPlanning policies to ensure #EquitableAccess for all city residents, regardless of socioeconomic status. It also highlights the value of #CommunityInvolvement in the upkeep and management of green spaces, fostering a sense of ownership and responsibility among local stakeholders. Sustainable funding mechanisms, such as public-private partnerships, are proposed to ensure UGS’s regular maintenance and future expansion. Moreover, the research advocates for continued use of data-driven decision-making, leveraging GIS tools to monitor and optimize green infrastructure for long-term sustainability. While this study focuses on Zone I, expanding future research to other zones would offer a more comprehensive perspective on UGS distribution and accessibility across the entire city.
"This research presents UGS as Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) to tackle pressing urban challenges like #ClimateChange, flooding, and social inequalities, offering actionable strategies for policymakers and urban planners. While centered on Islamabad, these findings provide a valuable framework that other rapidly urbanizing cities can adapt to strike a balance between development and ecological integrity. The study reminds that sustainable cities must prioritize green spaces to ensure a livable, #equitable, and #resilient urban future."
Full article:
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-07578-2#SolarPunkSunday #MoreTrees #GreenerCities #MoreGreenSpace #Microclimates #GreenInfrastructure #OpenAccess #OpenAccessJournals #LivableCities
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Planting #mangroves to defend communities
A #MangroveRestoration program in northern #Mozambique aims to help protect the coastline from storms while supporting #OceanEcosystems, too.
by Winile Ximba, Jul 10, 2026
"The Indian Ocean coastline of northern Mozambique is a sandy flatland where palm tree forests dominate the interior whilst near the shore, mangrove trees line the mouths of the blue sea. Despite being the poorest part of the country, it’s an idyllic land of beauty where the biggest human populations prefer to live near the ocean for the ease of trade and to forage seafood resources.
"However, the region is facing significant effects from climate change, such as the super cyclone that hit the districts of Mecufi and Milamba in December 2024. Keeping land, livestock and vulnerable members of society from being swept away into the ocean hinges on wild plants: the mangrove in particular, says Josica Nada, a community leader and forestry activist in Mecufi. 'We are not planting mangrove plants out of eco-green fashion, but survival,' he says of what he calls his community’s 'heroics' in replanting a two-hectare coastal zone with mangrove plants in the past five years.
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"Now, a grassroots initiative – the Northern Mozambique Rural #Resilience Project (#NMRRP) – is taking shape in northern provinces. A key component of the NMRRP is the race to restore mangrove forest cover along the coastline ahead of the arrival of future megastorms."
Read more:
https://www.rewildingmag.com/planting-mangroves-to-defend-communities/#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #RewildingMagazine #MoreTrees #MoreForests #MangroveForests
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@robtherunt Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday ! #MoreTrees, please!
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How to keep your house cool during #NewEngland #HeatWave
by Bailey Allen
June 30, 2026"As a heat wave approaches Massachusetts, residents may be looking for ways to keep their homes as cool as possible.
"The National Weather Service is predicting 'extreme heat and humidity' across most of southern New England, except the Berkshires and the Cape and Islands, from Wednesday, July 1, through Friday, July 3.
"Temperatures are expected to rise above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (and heat index values around 111 degrees) near the end of the week.
"The weather service recommends drinking plenty of water and staying in an air-conditioned space to reduce the effects of the heat on the body.
Here are some tips for those without air conditioning or looking for ways to lower indoor temperatures during the upcoming 'dangerous heat.'"Here are some tips to help keep your home cool during the upcoming New England heat wave, according to Boston Emergency Management:
- Install an air conditioner and use ceiling or standing fans to improve airflow. However, electric fans will not prevent #HeatRelatedIllness, the City of Boston said.
- Weather-strip doors and windowsills to keep cool air inside.
- Reflect heat back outside by installing temporary window reflectors, such as aluminum foil-covered cardboard, between windows and drapes.
- Cover windows that receive morning or afternoon sunlight with drapes, shades, awnings, or louvers. Outdoor awnings or louvers can reduce the heat entering a home by up to 80%, according to Boston Emergency Management.
- See if you can have a tree planted on the sidewalk in front of your home for free. Cities including Boston, Worcester, Quincy, Lowell, and Springfield offer free street tree planting programs.
- Limit the use of your stove and oven, which can increase indoor temperatures.Visit cooling centers if your home can't get cool
"If your home doesn't have air conditioning or isn't staying cool enough, Boston Emergency Management recommends taking breaks in air-conditioned places such as shopping malls, #PublicLibraries, or public #CoolingCenters.
"In Boston, cooling centers include swimming pools, #SplashPads , and community centers. Residents can call 2-1-1 to find cooling locations across #Massachusetts."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/B1iBq#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #KeepCool #ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat #KeepingCool #GreenerCities #MoreTrees #LibrariesRule!
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3 #African Cities Restore #Nature to Revitalize Their #Rivers
By Eden Takele, Marc Manyifika, Japheth Habinshuti, Adane Kebede, Alemakef Tassew, Amanda Gcanga, Mulalo Mbedzi and Nikara Mahadeo, March 12, 2025
"Africa’s cities, from large metropolises to smaller towns, are increasingly characterized by growing #UrbanSprawl. #Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, is expanding by about 2,000 people and 5 hectares (10 football fields) every day, according to a World Bank estimate. #Kumasi, an intermediary city in #Ghana, is growing more than 5% every year — at least twice as fast as the capital city, Accra.
As cities and surrounding farmlands expand further into their hinterlands, they encroach upon watersheds essential to water supply and climate resilience.
Watersheds are the natural area of land that drain into a common body of water. The consequences of their degradation are threefold. Without tree cover and healthy soils to absorb rainfall, cities may lose a critical source for groundwater recharge, leading to water shortages. Not only does the quantity of water suffer, so does its quality. Without strong roots to protect and anchor the soil, sediment and the chemicals within it are washed into nearby water bodies, often the primary source for a city’s drinking water. That same runoff can turn into floodwater.
How Natural Infrastructure Supports #WaterSecurity.
Many cities that once depended on their watersheds for water now face both increasing scarcity and heightened vulnerability to #extremeWeather. There are, however, #NatureBasedSolutions to help alleviate these problems.
Through a combination of upland foresting and urban greening, watershed restoration efforts are starting to deliver positive results in three African cities..."
Read more:
https://www.wri.org/insights/nature-based-solutions-river-restoration-african-cities#SolarPunkSunday #DireDawa #Ethiopia #Kigali #Rwanda #NyabarangoRiver #Africa #MoreTrees #RiverRestoration #WaterIsLife #ClimateChange
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In other news, hubby trimmed back the branches of a dying oak tree, which will give our 2nd walnut tree more space and light. Our first one should be producing walnuts by now, but we think it was not producing because of the drought (mom in law's tree, the mother tree, is the same way). We'll make sure to give both of them plenty of watering the rest of this season and also next year...
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Lessons from the #Incas: How llamas, terraces and trees could help the #Andes survive #ClimateChange
by Alex Chepstow-Lusty, August 26, 2025
Excerpt: "The evidence shows that from around the year 1100, during a period of global warming known as the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, Andean communities moved higher up into the mountains. They built terraces, irrigated slopes, and planted trees such as alder to make the soil more fertile and provide wood.
"Llamas and their cousins, alpacas, were vital as they were hardy, light-footed, and supplied wool, fuel and fertilizer. Their communal dung heaps even show up in the lake sediments, revealed by spikes in fossils of certain dung-eating mites that thrived when llama caravans were pastured nearby.
"Together, these practices stabilized soils, reduced erosion, and allowed large populations to thrive in the Andes."
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"When the Spanish arrived in the 1530s, this balance was upended. New livestock—cattle, sheep and goats—trampled vegetation and eroded soils. Their free-ranging herds left waste across the landscape, unlike llamas and their easily-collectible dung.
"At the same time, the Spaniards cut down forests for timber and charcoal, in contrast to the Inca who had imposed harsh penalties to protect their woodland resources. The 17th century Spanish pastor and chronicler, Bernabé Cobo, remarked that a Spanish household used as much fuel in one day as a native household would in an entire month.
"The lake sediments record the ecological damage of the era: excess nutrients from dung, more erosion, and a collapse of the Inca's sustainable land management."
Read more:
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-lessons-incas-llamas-terraces-trees.html#SolarPunkSunday #TerraceGardening #TraditionalKnowledge #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #ClimateAdaptive #LessonsFromThePast #SustainableLandManagement #MedievalClimaticAnomaly #MoreTrees #Colonialism #IndigenousHistory
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#Minnesota farmer grows #ClimateAdaptive seedlings as co-op member
Brian Ingmire’s mission to help #reforest northern Minnesota became a lot more important after the June 21 storm that leveled millions of trees in the #Bemidji area.
By Dennis Doeden
September 07, 2025 at 9:00 AMExcerpt: "Brian is a member of the Farm & Forest Growers Cooperative, a network of small farms and nurseries that grow climate-adaptive tree seeds into seedlings, and then sell the seedlings to reforestation agencies and individuals.
" 'Minnesota has a massive need for tree seedlings,' Ingmire said. 'Something like 10 million trees are needed every year at a minimum. And we have a lot of forest disturbance, whether it’s fires or wind events.'
"Ingmire figures he has about 30,000 tree seedlings on his farm, and about two-thirds of them will be available for purchase this fall. Online orders can be placed at climatesmarttrees.com. He's also been selling seedlings at his Bemidji Natural Choice Farmers Market booth, and says having them there gives him an opportunity to talk about the project.
"New North Farm is one of 24 members of the cooperative. Ingmire is growing several varieties, including #RedOak, #BurrOak, #YellowBirch and #SilverMaple. All are collected from about 200 miles south and then started up north.
" 'I can tell you where their parent tree came from,' Ingmire said. “They should be able to handle the changes in temperature extremes. We’ve got different insect pests and #fungal pests that are putting stressors on trees just because of the temperature extremes. These trees should have the genetic ability to deal with that kind of extreme.'
"The need for #reforestation was certainly exacerbated in the Bemidji area after the June storm. It is estimated that Beltrami County lost nine million trees, and many were also downed in parts of Hubbard and Cass counties.
" 'That number exceeds a lot of the nursery capacity that we have,' Ingmire said."
#SolarPunkSunday #ClimateChangeAgriculture
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#Rewilding: Can it save our #wildlife and temper #ClimateChange?
We’ve pushed #nature to the brink, but it may be capable of repairing the damage - provided we step aside and let it go back to doing what it does best.
by Jocelyn Timperley
Published: January 8, 2021Excerpt: "More recently, Sir #DavidAttenborough adopted the term in the documentary A Life On Our Planet, his much-lauded ‘witness statement’ for the environment. 'So what do we do?' he asked, after an hour journeying through the enormous biodiversity loss the world has experienced during his 94 years. 'To restore stability to our planet we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing that we’ve removed… We must #rewild the world.'"
Read more:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/rewilding-can-it-save-our-wildlife-and-temper-climate-change#SolarPunkSunday #Rewilding #Restoration #Nature #MoreTrees #MoreGreen
