Could miniature forests help air-condition cities?
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Got a glass museum and a astro-turf kids park instead.
We know what not to do and sleepwalk into it anyway.
Joni Mitchell: https://youtu.be/94bdMSCdw20
Counting Crows: https://youtu.be/tvtJPs8IDgU
Sure, you don't like a tree near your home, but suck up. We need trees to save the environment.
Who says that? Is this sarcasm? I don't think I've ever heard someone say they don't like trees. It's the developers that don't like trees because it makes it more difficult to put up their cookie cutter tiky tacky little boxes.
(I moved from Melbourne where I grew up to live in a rural town of under a hundred people a few years ago. This choice suggests I’m not typical.)
Maybe people aren't entitled to live in suburbs where trees are a threat
The owners do not cut the trees down.
With that said, they have a lot of benefits too. Large shade trees can significantly lower energy bills in the summer. And evergreens positioned properly can help break up winter winds to slightly reduce heating costs.
Dare I say in many parts of the world well positioned trees are probably the better choice at reducing energy costs than roof top solar.
But for the purposes of this topic where we're talking about planting trees, issues with planting the wrong kind of tree or in the wrong spot on the property don't apply.
They then select 100 or so local plant species to deploy. These are chosen by surveying the nearby area on foot instead of relying on published guidebooks, which have a habit of being out of date or even simply wrong.
Prime city real estate is generally A) expensive and B) already taken. Neither conducive to lets plant some trees
You can't "get rid" of real estate for cars.
Why not make it mandatory to have a certain number of trees per unit size of parking lots? Cars are cooler in the shade and you can provide employment for upkeep of the trees and cleaning.
99.99% of suburbanites couldn't afford their lifestyle if it weren't for obsurd gov subsidies of infrastructure / petrol industry.
Don't know how it is in the US, but over here in France (and I presume most of Europe) I'm not sure how much the petrol industry is subsidized, given the high taxes levied on gas – around 60% of the price paid at the pump goes to taxes [0].
Of course, this being France, taxes are themselves taxed [0], but still...
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[0] https://www.economie.gouv.fr/cedef/prix-carburants
In French, but the relevant quotes are:
In France, taxes account for approximately 60% of the gas price at the pump.
20% VAT, applied to the whole amount, TICPE (Internal Tax on the Consumption of Energy Products) included.
still trying to get to 1k subs since that unlocks a whole slew of features to grow a channel. I'm at a disadvantage until then. My future goal is to buy a much bigger parcel of land and help nature establish a regenerative food forest and figure out enough about trust law to keep it that way in perpetuity after my death.
[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sebastiao-salgad...
[2] https://institutoterra.org/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salt_of_the_Earth_(2014_fi...
My advice is: Start now and figure the rest out later. Building something like this you need a multi-decade timespan to see your vision come even close to fruition.
Permaculture draws a lot from indigenous practices, and those are other entry points for research.
There is probably a permaculture guild in your local area. Show up and tell them what you want to try in your backyard. They’ll probably know a lot about the local, native species and plant conditions.
Not real forests, though.
Not consuming everything in sight, as fast as you can.
But yeah ok trees.