19 Dec Shaded urban seating: comfort, tech and sustainability
A place to sit, cool down, charge a phone and meet someone, under a canopy that makes its own power. What a square needs when summers get longer....
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19 Dec Living playgrounds: play structures that grow
Slides, swings and climbing frames shaped from living trees instead of plastic and steel. A playground that gets stronger, shadier and more alive every year....
19 Dec The power of trees in cutting your energy bills
Shade in summer, shelter in winter. A well-placed tree is the oldest climate technology there is, and one of the cheapest ways to lower what a home or a street spends on cooling and heating....
19 Dec Urban truffle trees: growing a delicacy in the city
Truffles grow where a fungus and a tree root agree to work together. If that partnership can be started on purpose, a city tree can become a crop as well as shade....
20 Apr More trees and vegetation to save the planet?
Trees clean air, hold water, cool streets and quiet traffic. Not a miracle, but the most reliable piece of infrastructure a city can plant....
20 Apr Tree cell phone towers: where technology meets nature
Masts disguised as trees were the first step. A mast that is a tree, with roots, leaves and shade, is the next one....
20 Apr Spare a watt, save a lot
Shade trees, windbreaks, green roofs and planting around solar panels: four ways vegetation lowers a building's energy use, and how they fit together....