Eco-Urbanism and Urban Resilience Become More Critical Against a Background of a Global War — Fadi Hamdan, Beirut buff.ly/3Du5wUk

2022-11-01 TNOC Gazette - mailchi.mp/d63be6c05750/2… City design after Covi; City ranking and their meaning; an exhibit on shade and equity; call for poems in Sprout's Issue 3; can permaculture save the world? Lessons for co-creating nature-based solutions.

Cities aren't our biodiversity problem: Over the last 50 years, conversion of natural ecosystems for crop production & pasture has been by far the primary cause of biodiversity loss. Crops & livestock occupy ca. 50% of the planet’s habitable land buff.ly/3TAGIRs

If we were to dismantle major urban centers and spread their populations over the surrounding countryside, far more pastoral paradise would be consumed and carbon footprint per capita would rise dramatically buff.ly/3TAGIRs

They Didn’t Pave “Paradise”, They Ploughed It. The impact of urbanization needs to be kept in perspective compared to the greater threat to biodiversity of our unsustainable global food system buff.ly/3TAGIRs

They Didn’t Pave “Paradise”, They Ploughed It — Lincoln Garland, Bath buff.ly/3TAGIRs

With climate change impacts already affecting Mumbai, we need to go further than to simply suggest methods of mitigation and focus more on radical adaptation. Mumbai now has a complete climate action plan buff.ly/3u42rXG

Daniela Rizzi ICLEI Europe argues at European Nature and Business Summit for much more dialogue with businesses of all sizes to accelerate awareness and private sector investment in #naturebasedsolutions #BusinessNatureSummit Connecting Nature

What Cities Can Learn from Human Bodies—Nadina Galle, Amsterdam—Urban metabolism is not only a powerful metaphor for better understanding our urban systems, but also the fundamental framework we need for accelerating the transition to sustainable cities buff.ly/2PlPAtO

We know a lot about how urbanization affects spider communities. Interestingly, in a meta-analysis of lots of arthropod studies across urbanization gradients, spiders were the only taxa that were not clearly and negatively affected by urbanization. buff.ly/3eK5r6x

Urban Spiders – Fuzzy Friends or Fearsome Foes? — Timothy Bonebrake, Hong Kong buff.ly/3eK5r6x

2022-10-15 TNOC Gazette - mailchi.mp/ecb125afd02f/2… Climate action in Mumbai; 3D Bangkok; Systemic Racism; Underground Sound Project; Integrating with the Horticulture industry; Growing food together is good.

Climate Change Education—Climate change education addresses immediate safety and risk reduction, as well as longer-term actions to enhance environmental quality. buff.ly/3T4Ru28

ROUNDTABLE: National Park City: What if your city were a National Park City, analogous to what London created? What it would be like? What would it take to accomplish? buff.ly/2P5HwNY

At The Nature of Graffiti, our crowd sourced website of nature-themed graffiti. New rom Barcelona, Kolkata, Washington, Malmo. buff.ly/3VnPGmx buff.ly/3erkhPv

DEER. thenatureofgraffiti.org/2022/10/14/dee…

SHADE : Rising Heat Inequity in a Sunburnt Era : 21 artists, 18 umbrellas as a canvas for ideas; 16 scientists, poets, and planners meditating on the concept of shade. A virtual exhibit of art and ideas. buff.ly/3SUJkJJ

Shade in the City | Rising Heat Inequity In A Sunburnt Era: 18 artists in Los Angeles got an umbrella as a canvas to explore heat & equity. The virtual version of the exhibit launches today, accompanied by 15 meditations from scientists, poets & planners buff.ly/3ywNaAw

ROUNDTABLE: What are we trying to accomplish with biophilic cities? What are ambitious goals and targets, and measures of success? buff.ly/3fCRtn5