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Urban Heat

Waypoints For People Walking And Cycling
Imagine the equivalent of a service station for pedestrians. A place where they can break their journey, to rest, recharge, check their directions. It’s…
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Gayle Dallaston
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Urban Heat - Emissions AND Biodiversity
If the answers to climate change and urban heat were simple, we’d have solved them long ago. Instead, we do our best to cope with the consequences.
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Gayle Dallaston
Three things we must do to cool our streets and cities
I was asked this week what we need to do to increase shade in our streets for walkability. Of course we need more trees and more verge gardens. Perhaps…
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Gayle Dallaston
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Heatwaves and Urban Heat Islands
Street trees don't just cool our footpaths. They stop our roads becoming like giant bar heaters making our homes hotter during the day and well into the…
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Gayle Dallaston
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Fake Grass and Urban Heat
In Queensland, we have a very hot summer looming. Increasing tree canopy and planting gardens for shade is one way to mitigate. So why this...
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Gayle Dallaston
Could Verge Gardens be the Leaders in Cooling our Streets?
Street trees are an obvious way to reduce urban heat. I've written about my street tree and how the native verge garden around it increased biodiversity…
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Gayle Dallaston
Why street trees and why native verge gardens
This is based on a presentation for the Banyo Verge Garden Pilot Project in March 2023
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Gayle Dallaston
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