Thank-you for keeping us cool 🌳🙏🌞 Let's fill ALL our streets with trees! treesforstreets.org

In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson from the University of Reading shows how long it takes a cup of water to soak into parched ground. This is why heavy rainfall after a drought can be really dangerous & might lead to flash flooding buff.ly/3GZ3hLL

It is possible to get trees into parking areas without any loss of parking spaces, so why are we not seeing this as standard in commercial developments? This was a hot day, its not by chance that this driver parked in the shade! Well done Marks & Spencers at J7 on the M27.

I’ve only just been made aware of this wonderful tweet I highly recommend, everyone looks at it because it affects us all We are just not paying for the damage we’re doing, but we can fix it should we want to

Good Read: “Let the kids play in the dirt, climb on the rocks & even add some wood logs to the mix so they can get even more creative.” How to design the perfect (and actually more “risky”) city playground. Remember, risk & hazards aren’t the same thing. theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-…

🇫🇷 Paris is removing half its street parking to free up space for people. 🚗 Cars in Paris take up 50% of public space.

Twitter you know how I always rescue caterpillars from the park nettles before the council can kill them? WELL. I have been busy. Behold 265 peacock butterfly chrysalises 🤪

⁦@LidlGB⁩ your newly planted trees at Crane Boulevard Ipswich look like they're struggling. Do you have a weekly watering plan in place? If not you've condemned them to death. Please help them to thrive and survive 👍🏼🌳💚

Dreaming of a greener, cooler and friendlier town. Tavern Street, Buttermarket Street, Princes Street and Queens Street in Ipswich, reimagined with trees, planting and benches. #greenfuture #coolingsolutions #floodmanagement #cleanair #mentalhealth #placemaking #BadPhotoshop

The retail vacancy rate on Montreal’s Mont-Royal Avenue dropped from 14.5% before pedestrianization (2018) to 5.6% after pedestrianization (2023). 📍 Montreal 🇨🇦 Valérie Plante Avenue du Mont-Royal

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🌡 Time for a reminder that adding shade & vegetation 🌳 to urban environments helps to reduce the urban heat island effect massively. A super important tool to keep cities cool during the summer.👇

The irony of moving to a cycling city is we’ve never walked more in our lives. Endless meandering strolls made desirable because Delft’s streets aren’t drowning in cars. The greatest trick the auto industry ever pulled was convincing the world walking and cycling can’t coexist.

Removing on street parking in Toronto in favor of dining parklets led to a nearly 50x increase in revenue as compared to parking fees. The math is common sense - we should build cities for people, not cars!

JUST IN ➡️ Paris 🇫🇷 to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle ‘auto-besity’ 🚙 More of this please👇👇

When we rethink the space between our buildings, the possibilities are endless! Using this incredible AI tool by UrbanistAI, citizens can reimagine public spaces, and decision-makers can make informed decisions.

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Could #Ipswich become a sponge town? #GreenerIpswich bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

In an ideal scenario the President of the United States and the worst person in the world would be two different people.

President Biden should resign as an act of protest tomorrow so Kamala Harris could be sworn in as the first female president until January. That would make Trump 48 and ruin that stupid hat of his. Can we get this trending.