Julia Simon
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862 appearances
78 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 14 Sep
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Yeah, so it's named after Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki, who started doing it in the 1970s.
Basically, it's a way to plant entire forests worth of trees on these tiny plots of land.
Very dense, little forests.
It could be on a neighborhood block.
It could be a few parking spaces even.
Mini forests, or as they're sometimes called, pocket forests.
Now, I've never heard of a pocket forest.
But doesn't it sound adorable?
Oh, Polly Pocket.
Yeah.
They are really small, but they can be great for neighborhoods.
And these pocket forests, they're spreading across the U.S., all across the world, really.
Sometimes an area as big as six parking spaces can fit 350 plants.
And this density makes the trees race towards the sunlight before they can be overshadowed by the others.
So this method essentially fast tracks forest growth.
Well, trees suck up carbon dioxide, but trees don't last forever.
They can burn up in fires or die other ways, and then they can release that carbon dioxide again.
There's a lot of debate about how trees are used to fight climate change.
But as a climate solution, what is clear is that when it comes to adapting to a hotter planet, there's more convincing scientific evidence, Aisha, that planting trees can really help cool people down.
Oh, so this is more of like adaptation than just like mitigation?
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