Tree Huggers

Growing trees on buildings is a controversial practice, but if successful, can provide tremendous benefits to dense urban areas where space for planting is otherwise limited.

A tool for comparing canopy coverage of cities across the world. Tree canopy has major impacts on the livability of cities, particularly as the climate warms. The biggest benefits kick in around 30-40% coverage.

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/237636

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Beautiful photo of an endangered island oak, Quercus tomentella, courtesy of marivillasol on iNaturalist.

We've known for a long time that trees can keep the built environment cooler, but with heat waves and deaths spiking worldwide, it has become an urgent need in many areas.

Defining and measuring these things can be tricky, so there can be debate about the various titleholders. Still, this is a good overview of some of the more famous examples.

Hello everyone,

Like many people, I migrated from Reddit to Lemmy recently following the API fiasco. While I am generally loving the communities on here, one of my favorites, /r/marijuanaenthusiasts hasn't made the jump. So I decided to start a similar community here. While I thought about preserving the name, I always found the constant drip of confused users a little frustrating. Because Lemmy is a new site, and because it allows multiple communities to have the same name, I decided to go with something a little more clear to those not familiar with the history of Reddit.

That said, this community will cover largely the same topics as the subreddit does, including tree appreciation, care, identification, science, news, and really anything else tree or forest related you can think of. Because of my own interests and the instance we're on, I'd like to encourage a bit more of an advocacy and activism theme as well. Not just trees as they are today, but how they can be used as a tool to make the world a better place.

This is my first time starting a community, and I have limited moderating experience, so please be patient with me. If this community takes off, I probably will need to recruit more moderators, but we can cross that bridge when we come to it.

Welcome everyone, and I'm looking forward to seeing what people contribute!

Photo courtesy of Thomas Bresson, under CC BY 4.0.