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Nations First Urban Farming School Teaches Kids to Grow and Cook Their Own Food
2016-06-06 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Students at one San Fransisco school will soon have the chance to learn about urban farming and the role it can play in the community in a unique setting. The Golden Bridges School's planned new campus will join indoor and outdoor learning spaces and will have several beneficial and environmentally friendly aspects. The property is currently an urban farm, which was started six years ago by Caitlyn Galloway, the San Fransisco Examiner reported. Galloway hoped to prove urban farms could turn a...
Join Urban Forestry! Now recruiting AmeriCorps Tree Plan Coordinator
2016-06-04 23:16:27| PortlandOnline
Hard-Pressed Rust Belt Cities Go Green to Aid Urban Revival
2016-05-31 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Hard-Pressed Rust Belt Cities Go Green to Aid Urban Revival Gary, Indiana is joining Detroit and other fading U.S. industrial centers in an effort to turn abandoned neighborhoods and factory sites into gardens, parks, and forests. In addition to the environmental benefits, these greening initiatives may help catalyze an economic recovery. Depending on how you look at it, Gary, Indiana is facing either the greatest crisis in its 110-year history, or the greatest opportunity. The once-prosperous...
Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife
2016-05-25 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: With spring now fully sprung, a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers shows that buds burst earlier in dense urban areas than in their suburban and rural surroundings. This may be music to urban gardeners' ears, but that tune could be alarming to some native and migratory birds and bugs. Urban-dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which...
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Bangladeshs urban slums swell with climate migrants
2016-05-24 14:06:38| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press: Abdul Aziz, 35, arrived in the capital Dhaka in 2006 after losing all his belongings to the mighty Meghna River. Once, he and his family had lived happily in the village of Dokkhin Rajapur in Bhola, a coastal district of Bangladesh. Aziz had a beautiful house and large amount of arable land. But riverbank erosion snatched away his household and all his belongings. Now he lives with his four-member family, including his 70-year-old mother, in the capital`s Malibagh slum. "Once we had huge arable...
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