Residential Roadmap
Canopy & Habitat Expansion
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The Power of Small Plots
(Residential)
- The Individual Action -
The micro habitat movement
It’s important to show the impact an individual can have. While it would be great to engage your whole neighborhood, individuals can move forward and have a great impact all on their own. In turn, they will set an example that can spread. Individuals have the power of measurable change in thier own small part of the planet.
We will be publishing articles to show precisely what impacts can have. Environmental transformations should start in our own yards. The Urban Rewild Project empowers individuals to see their quarter-acre lots, community gardens, or parkways not as isolated patches, but as vital links in a larger, living urban ecosystem.
Neighborhood Collaboration
(Residential)
- The Community Action -
Helping each other, Street Trees, Community Gardens
Helping each other
As more and more people start their own projects, they can build small but growing networks with neighbors to share ideas and visions for what they plan to do.
Community Gardens
Community gardens are a great way to bring neighbors together and learn what will help them manage their own yards.
Street Trees
Street trees will put the neighborhood on the path of lowering neighborhood temperatures by 10-12 degrees. That will make it more likely to get everyone outside to work on the community garden and their own yards.
Urban Cooling Canopies
- Local Climate Control -
Bridging the gap between hardscapes & softscapes
It’s getting hotter each summer. It’s time to start covering all that concrete with tree canopies! Actively cooling our neighborhoods, communities, and cities by bridging the gap between hardscapes and softscapes reduces and regulates surface temperatures for both hard surfaces and soil. We focus on strategic tree placement to shade streets, sidewalks, homes, and parking surfaces. This disrupts the heat-absorption cycle of concrete and lowers surface temperatures to create comfortable, walkable, and energy-efficient neighborhoods. Shading houses reduces utility bills. Even if shade is created part of the day, it significantly reduces heat build up.