[HN Gopher] Could miniature forests help air-condition cities? ___________________________________________________________________ Could miniature forests help air-condition cities? Author : a_w Score : 18 points Date : 2021-07-02 19:50 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.economist.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.economist.com) | edoceo wrote: | Oh man. When Seattle was removing the Fun Forest from Seattle | Center I remember calling the council and asking them to replace | with a real forest. Would have been cool (literally and | figuratively) to have an acre or two of Cascadia native trees so | close to a downtown core. | | Got a glass museum and a astro-turf kids park instead. | darksaints wrote: | Not to say that that wouldn't be pretty cool, but we also have | Discovery Park and it's only like a couple of miles away from | Seattle Center. It's a legitimate Cascadian forest. | lukas099 wrote: | I want to create a miniature forest on my property one day. Does | anyone here have experience doing anything like that? | neonate wrote: | https://archive.is/gl6cY | aliasEli wrote: | What I especially like about his approach that he selects local | species. This helps other local species like plants and animals. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-02 23:00 UTC)