Published in REVOLVE Magazine Spring edition 2019
The City Forest Nexus, Can making things with wood help connect two of the world's greatest assets?
https://revolve.media/the-city-forest-nexus/
Walking the streets of most global cities today, things seem to be going pretty well. Between the lights, buildings, people, trees – clean streets and easy access to good food and transportation – it can be difficult to see things like climate change, soil degradation, or the loss of a species that shared our planet for as long as we have. Faraway from city centers, the world is losing tropical forests at the unprecedented rate of 44,000 Ha per day – the equivalent of 40 football fields every minute – with very serious consequences for our collective future. With any urban future entirely dependent on the future of nature, now is the time for every major city to do more to restore, protect and sustain the natural ecosystems on which they depend.
Read the print version: pilot-projects.org/pdf/The_City_Forest_Nexus_Scott_Francisco_REVOLVE_pg_22-29.pdf
