The Nature of Cities explores both the nature in are own backyards - Austin and San Diego and the possibilities in projects of cities of the future - Malmo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Freiburg, Amsterdam and Paris. The film features Sustainable Communities professor Timothy Beatley as he tours these places with City Planners, Landscape Architects, Ecologists and Residents. 

Elevated Wetlands, a public art project in Toronto, Canada, by landLAB’s principal landscape architect Neil Hadley and artist Noel Harding. Brought to my attention by Dave Laubenthal (PNCA Collaborative Design Student)
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Elevated Wetlands, a public art project in Toronto, Canada, by landLAB’s principal landscape architect Neil Hadley and artist Noel Harding.

Brought to my attention by Dave Laubenthal (PNCA Collaborative Design Student)

Source: treehugger.com

Emergent complexity can arise from simple interactions between agents following rules. The complexity that arises is suprising and challenges our assumptions about whether order comes from the top or the bottom. Life and consciousness are examples of emergent phenomena.

1 Tree per 61.4 People If there are 5 million tress in the US, and our population is 307, 006, 550 million then there is one tree per every 61.4 of us! thewonk: Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of NASA’s Woods Hole Research Center worked in conjunction with the National Geological Survey and US Forest Service to catalog a mix of data gleaned from space-based radar, satellite sensors, computer models, and old-fashioned tree counting. The map above shows the total amount of woody biomass in the USA. It’s displayed at a 30 meter resolution, where every four pixels constitutes an acre and every ten represents a hectare. In total, Kellendorfer estimates some five million trees reside on US soil (via Gizmodo via Where the Trees Are : Image of the Day).
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1 Tree per 61.4 People

If there are 5 million tress in the US, and our population is 307, 006, 550 million then there is one tree per every 61.4 of us!

thewonk:

Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of NASA’s Woods Hole Research Center worked in conjunction with the National Geological Survey and US Forest Service to catalog a mix of data gleaned from space-based radar, satellite sensors, computer models, and old-fashioned tree counting. The map above shows the total amount of woody biomass in the USA. It’s displayed at a 30 meter resolution, where every four pixels constitutes an acre and every ten represents a hectare. In total, Kellendorfer estimates some five million trees reside on US soil (via Gizmodo via Where the Trees Are : Image of the Day).

Resiliency or Adaptation Nature’s resiliency would be something said here, but it reminds me of a Thoreau quote. Is it resiliency or is it adaptation? “Things do not change; we change.” – Henry David Thoreau  What happens to nature after a nuclear accident? And how does wildlife deal with the world it inherits after human inhabitants have fled? The historic nuclear accident at Chernobyl is now 25 years old. Filmmakers and scientists set out to document the lives of the packs of wolves and other wildlife thriving in the “dead zone” that still surrounds the remains of the reactor. This film premiered on October 19, 2011. (Video limited to U.S. & Territories.) Radioactive Wolves~full episode
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Resiliency or Adaptation

Nature’s resiliency would be something said here, but it reminds me of a Thoreau quote. Is it resiliency or is it adaptation? “Things do not change; we change.” – Henry David Thoreau 

What happens to nature after a nuclear accident? And how does wildlife deal with the world it inherits after human inhabitants have fled? The historic nuclear accident at Chernobyl is now 25 years old. Filmmakers and scientists set out to document the lives of the packs of wolves and other wildlife thriving in the “dead zone” that still surrounds the remains of the reactor. This film premiered on October 19, 2011. (Video limited to U.S. & Territories.) Radioactive Wolves~full episode

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