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Urban trees... 🌳 improve personal health 🏙 reduce air pollution 💧 conserve and filter water 💸 save energy ☀ cool our streets and sidewalks 📈 increase economic stability 🐦 foster biodiversity

Street trees help us feel happier... ..a bold claim, but one backed up by a recent German study, that showed that living in proximity to street trees saw a reduction in the level of anti-depressants prescriptions. So let's fill our streets with trees! TreesforStreets.org

The role of street trees 🌳in reducing flash-flooding🌊 Simply, they SLOW THE RATE🏃‍♂️rainwater builds up in our streets 👇 🫴Holding water in their canopies 🧽 Roots enable the ground to absorb more water Plus 🌳🌳🌳they cool our cities, thus lowering air moisture. Pretty cool😎

This 🇫🇷 French car park says a lot about the importance of trees for creating shade and cooling in summer 🌞⛱️🌳 We need to be planting MANY more trees in our streets, (yes) car parks & city spaces if we are to adapt to an ever warming climate.

"Many opposed to the parking plan" by @StellMun in @Die_Burger today 🦓

🥵 Urban heat stress (and all its consequences) are yet another hidden cost of monopolising our public spaces for cars. Time for change! Check out these strategies: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Street trees even help reduce crime…🌳🧑‍🤝‍🧑 How?🤔 ..by creating more liveable/attractive neighbourhoods, where more people want to spend time outside. Promoting cohesion, better health, and civic pride. Evidence…🔎 …a US showed from Baltimore showed, that a 10 percent increase in trees roughly equated a 12 percent decrease in crime.

The @ilo report on the impacts of extreme heat is another reminder of #ClimateInequality and the urgent need for #ClimateAction. People living in poverty are being hit first and worst from a crisis they did not create. Read the report: ow.ly/MNkq50SK2ib

Would you give up a couple of parking spaces🚗🚗 if it meant you could have some trees🌳 in your street? 🤔 Often there can be a straight choice - a parking space for a tree. This is particularly so in very narrow streets. It's a point of a lot of debate...

5 reasons to plant trees: 🐻 Shelter for wildlife 👩‍🌾 More jobs 💨 Improved air quality 🌳 Cooler streets 💧 Prevent flooding

@CreateAStirSA 💔❤️‍🩹 so very sorry, Rachelle. The love you and he shared will last forever. Sending much love to you, and gentle snuggles for Jack.

It's with a broken heart that I am sharing that my magnificent Henry died this morning. He was my best big boy who taught me so much about love, life & myself. My home will never be the same. He gave me his everything & I loved him more than I thought possible. How lucky was I.

@alexlansdowne @andrewdeblocqmp You need more people with balanced mindsets capable of seeing the far bigger picture, the human well-being and nature connections, the reality of urban nature & human need, the reality of rural nature & human need. "We need more conservationists" is way too simplistic.

Thank you. The Mayor encourages me to keep going and be more ambitious; and I get a lot of support from other councillors. But we need more conservationists to become politicians and be at the decision making table. As far as I know it’s only me & @andrewdeblocqmp!

via @GoodThingsGuy The Fight for Tokai Forest and All Its Treasures dlvr.it/T9d1XS ... RT @capeNews

By planting trees in our parks and public spaces, we raise awareness about their environmental, social, and economic advantages. Let's advocate for a greener, more sustainable future! 🌳💚 #UrbanCanopy #Sustainab Learn more: nature.org/en-us/about-us… Via @nature_org

#DYK Forests cover ~31% of Earth's land? That's billions of hectares!🌳🌍 Forests are vital for #biodiversity, climate & as ecosystems, but they're under pressure. Every native tree counts to stop #BiodiversityLoss! Find out why else #forests matter w/@IPBES infographic👇

Street trees help us feel happier...😃🌳 ..a bold claim, but one backed up by a recent German study, that showed that living in proximity to street trees saw a reduction in the level of anti-depressants prescriptions 💊 So let's fill our streets with trees! 👉@TreesforStreets

Watch as these trees quietly clean the city air 🌳 No song and dance. No fuss. In London, it's estimated, every year, they remove up to 2,000 tonnes of PM10 pollution particles. These are the type considered harmful to us humans. We thank you for your service 🙏

Our future depends on forests. 🌍🌱 Forests are vital for the well-being of people and our planet. Earth's forests: 🌲 provide sustenance and livelihoods 🌴 host 3/4 of terrestrial #biodiversity 🌳 store carbon 🌱 and so much more! Learn more #ForNature via @fao:

🌳Trees = street air-conditioning ❄️ As much as we love hot sunny weather 🌞 it’s a lot more pleasant experiencing it living on a shady tree-lined street. Tree-less streets become concrete suntraps - hot and uncomfortable. Green streets are healthy streets👍🌳 @TreesforStreets

Street trees an inconvenience? 🌳🤔 We still meet people who think street trees are an inconvenience, but with words like ‘heatdome’ & ‘flashflooding’ appearing more often in weather reports, it’s all too clear, they are a necessity 🌳Trees help protect us from extreme weather