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Carly Ziter reflects on returning to her hometown of Windsor and discovering how cities, even those shaped by industrial mythologies, can begin to repair, resist, and re-imagine their relationship with nature.

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January 14, 2026 at 7:25 PM
What if restoring nature in cities means more than parks and resilience plans?
What if it means decolonizing how we think about land, nature, and power?

This #tnocessay traces NY colonial roots to ask a bigger question—how can cities learn again to live with nature, not against it?

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December 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Collserola once framed Barcelona — now it’s a “green island” surrounded by the metropolis. A global paradox emerges: cities depend on forests, yet urban growth threatens them.

From California to Nairobi, the challenges are shared.

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December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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What if cities stopped seeing green spaces as a burden and started seeing them as an invitation to nurture life?

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#urbanecology #greeninfrastructure #cities #biodiversity #stewardship
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Revisiting “The Elephant and the Ant” by María Aragão

As cities continue to grow, how can seeing the urban environment as an ecosystem — where balance matters — help us build more sustainable futures?

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December 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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What happens when public servants walk rivers, dunes, and imagine their city in 2035?

Two NbS workshops in Curitiba & Florianópolis show how imagination + lived experience can spark real urban transformation.

How would YOU reimagine your city?

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#NbS #UrbanResilience
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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What happens when you ask people around the world to photograph the outdoor places that keep them healthy?
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November 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
What Remains?
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Climate grief becomes memory and monument in Ghost Ships and Mourning Doves, the haunting exhibition by Robin Lasser and Sydney Brown at Chung 24 Gallery. What do we carry forward as the planet changes?

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November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Canada’s Great Lakes Waterfront Trail links 170+ communities & First Nations along 2,250 miles of freshwater.
Now, 8 U.S. states are creating a companion trail — together forming a cross-border path of nature, people & shared waters.

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November 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Only 32.6% of environmental groups in Ontario include justice in their mission.

For co-author Tasmia, this wasn’t a statistic — it was personal. Feeling unseen in environmental spaces made her ask: What if environmentalism began by asking who belongs?

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October 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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The Youth Advocacy Playbook: How Youth Mobilize Knowledge for a #FossilFreeFuture Praneeta Mudaliar—Mississauga, Canada

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#ClimateJustice #YouthVoices #FossilFreeFuture #ClimateActio
October 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Detroit is not empty.
A participatory (counter) mapping workshop revealed the city’s networks of care, connection, and nature, challenging old narratives of “vacancy.”

How can mapping become a tool for empowerment and belonging, not exclusion?

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October 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Learning to Appreciate the Abundance (and Scarcity) of Water

In his essay, Tim Beatley draws us into Santa Fe’s ancient acequia tradition—water ditches governed by neighbors, cleaned by hands, and honored as a shared common.

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September 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
City Leaders Featured Once Again by the Convention on Wetlands
María Mejía—Bogotá

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#UrbanWetlands #Cities4Nature #WetlandCity
September 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Tranquil City’s Guidebook to City Greening: The mission to ensure urban greening research is accessible for all

How can we make urban greening truly inclusive and evidence-based?

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#UrbanGreening #NatureBasedSolutions #GreenCities
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
#ThrowbackThursday #tnocessayrevisit

The grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence… and lawns aren’t really “green” in a sustainability sense either.

So what explains their enduring popularity?

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#urbangreenspaces
August 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
#TNOCEssay The Summer Itself
Andreas Weber — Berlin

Once, summer meant flickers of green and sparks of crimson — burnet moths rising like tiny flames from wildflowers.

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August 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Dust, Water, Memory: Listening to Alwar’s Forgotten Wells
—Arvind Lakshmisha, Bangalore & Siya Bhatia, Alwar

This essay listens to the stones, the people, and the water—asking what it takes to truly restore a landscape

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#WaterHeritage #UrbanNature
August 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🎶 “For our Gardens make us strong!” — Elizabeth Frickey
Community gardens as living soundscapes: joy, protest, music, birdsong.

Gardens that refuse silence — because a silent garden is a threatened one.

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#TNOCEssay #UrbanGardens #RightToTheCity #NYC
July 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Art That Moves Cities: How Creativity Revives Place and Spirit
Ebony Walden—Richmond

Art is not a luxury. It is infrastructure: essential to how communities breathe life into cities, tell their stories, and reimagine their future.

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#ArtInCities
July 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“Getting to know you” shouldn’t be a luxury.
But in fast-paced projects with short timelines + limited funding, it often is.

💡 Real change is slow, relational, deeply human.

Revisit this #TNOCEssay:

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#SlowResearch #YouthEngagement
July 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Teaching Environmental Politics During the Trump Presidency

How do you teach about systems being dismantled in real time?

A powerful reflection on teaching, truth-telling & climate justice in uncertain times.

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#EnvironmentalJustice
July 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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How We Miss Half of Wildlife
by Sophia Kimmig — Leipzig

At night, cities transform. Wild boars at bus stops. Raccoons in trees. We miss half of nature by living in daylight.

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#UrbanNature #LivingNight #NocturnalWildlife #TheNatureOfCities
June 20, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Who do you call when the floodwaters rise?
It’s not just roads & pipes—it’s trust, care & connection.

Across the Caribbean & U.S. Northeast, resilience is being built in solidarity. Even as federal support fades, communities act.

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June 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Ripple Effects: How Clowns Made Waves in a Serious Workshop
By Arantxa Zamora, Mexico City
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A clown at a science workshop? In La Paz, it worked. 🤡💧

When art meets science, it sparks action and deepens our connection with nature.

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May 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM