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What Happens When We Listen to Cities? Lessons from 200 Cities Across Six Continents

Sun, 09/06/2026 - 06:00
A few months ago, a friend who has followed my writing and recent travel documentary work said, “You travel differently than anyone I know. You should teach a class.” That comment stayed with me. It made me think about what I actually do when I arrive somewhere new. I listen with the eyes of an […]
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Planting Trees While Rome Burns

Sun, 08/30/2026 - 18:00
We have been undergoing a dramatic quest for green in the face of climate change, green in the urban, green in the rural, from greening the desert to reforestation and afforestation. These “green” solutions (afforestation, exurban tree-planting, urban forestry) are being pursued reflexively as climate mitigation even as climate change undermines the conditions that make […]
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Reframing Community Garden Security: Ownership, access, capacity, and intentionality in Philadelphia

Sun, 08/23/2026 - 08:53
On one block in Philadelphia’s Norris Square neighborhood, there were three active community gardens in 2019. Five years later, in the summer of 2024, only one remained. One former garden has been replaced by a pristine vinyl-sided rowhome, its backyard fenced in and partially paved to make way for an expansive patio. According to online […]
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

The Experience of Urban Nature in a Time of AI

Tue, 08/11/2026 - 08:31
I went for a run this morning, on a paved trail that runs along a little creek surrounded by a few loblolly pine trees and some red maples, a little bit of urban nature surrounded by houses, streets, and suburbia. It was humid in the early summer morning, with mist steaming up off the concrete […]
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

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