There's this fantastic nonprofit called SUGi. There are greening initiatives that you can take part in that take seasons rather than years, and they can be really beneficial.
There's this fantastic nonprofit called SUGi. So talking about greening and trees, so in the book, you also mentioned-- at the beginning you mentioned cities
And that can often be overlooked. Recognizing that greening our lives has limited impact at an individual level, what is the number one thing you'd recommend everyday people can do
She called it "viriditas," from the Latin "viridis," that means green . So it was the greening power of a plant to grow, to produce seeds, and to repair itself up when it was injured. And she believed that human beings also have this power.
By the way, this is exactly what a Swiss engineer would invent if you put him in LA. So LA is greening the deserts with a sprinkler system. And then the problem is but you had to turn them on and off.
even than house to house secret it was um I put this one in because specifically from an ideal experiences we call this greening of New York City and the reason I think it's funny is that about six years ago we did a project called green hunting in New York City where we basically took a bunch of people green hunting and we said go out
scale of discount based on how much consumption you had so it's like it's a really really interesting example of kind of the greening of experiences but I had a really funny experience we're doing a book which is that we were in bryant park and there was a bunch of posters along the big green there that basically talked about why
Amsterdam is, I would say, one of the world's first green cities. So they structurally started-- systematically started greening their city in the Golden age, in the 16th and 17th centuries. It's pretty incredible. They had all these rules in place.
You do. But the crazy thing is, it actually goes faster than you think. And you can be involved in greening your neighborhood, greening your street, greening your balcony on time scales that feel a lot quicker. There's this fantastic nonprofit called SUGi.
Absolutely-- I'll take that. I loved that we covered greening the city.
At the end of the week, they deployed those features. The goal is to start greening the planet, get twice the gas mileage.
This poem by Hildegarde Von Bingen from 1124-- "glance at the sun, see the moon and the stars, gaze at the beauty of earth's greenings. Now, think." This is a really important set of phrases because, glance, see, gaze, think is really important,
And then other organisms started pairing up with fungi. And that really kicked off what was left to come for greening the surface of the Earth. So fungi wrapped up the aphotosynthetic cyanobacteria that could produce sugars from the sun,
He's also the author of "The Nature of Oaks, The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees," published in 2021, about the incredible oak tree that's near and dear to our own hearts of urban greening at Google, as well. Doug is expert at connecting ecological science findings with conservation in the cities and landscapes that we all call home.
There's this fantastic nonprofit called SUGi. good on what we want to do and actually plant more trees and do more greening interventions, typically, the communities that got hold of those interventions
of of invasive species that was another huge design moment for shipping so the question now for us is going to be how much of a noise gain do we get from that pressure that this Greening moment in um carbon emission design and that's been the biggest pressure on what's on uh model basins which is where
This is the SeaWiFS mission. But this basically shows-- this is a six year sequence showing the seasonal greening of the planet and then the receding in the winter months. But again, just a simple time series of that image shows very quickly a global snapshot of what's going on with the biosphere.
I want to show you a graph here derived from satellite data that shows the rate at which carbon is accumulating in plants. In addition to seeing carbon increase over time, you can also see how this greening landscape is impacting the water cycle through evapotranspiration. You can literally see how more and more water is moving through plants here providing benefits to people and nature alike.
And it's great. It's a great kind of invention and we want to support those things, I just-- we shouldn't be giving them a lot of subsidies, I think. more CO2 in the atmosphere, there's been global greening around the world, including crop growth, that there otherwise would not have been.
But a plant can heal itself. Hildegard called the power of a plant to heal itself its viriditas, its greening power, from the Latin "viridis", meaning "green ." She thought that human beings also had viriditas, a natural power of healing, and that the doctor, therefore, should be more like a gardener cultivating that viriditas, removing obstructions
leukemia so we have a long way to go instead of thinking of something as green we should think about Greening we
There's this fantastic nonprofit called SUGi. So look at these places where we spend significant amount of time, and maybe that are areas where you can bring in greening .
I have become a woman, writes Alice in her notebook, but before disappearing through the greening light it slips, just the strap of her sun dress, her peeled skin
Moving into the area of buildings which is an area we spend a whole chapter on, have a lot of checklists. It used to be that a lot of great opportunities in Greening buildings