Green Spaces in the Spotlight

For our season 3 finale, we're uncovering all there is to know
about green spaces and green infrastructure for cities! Many
people don't realize the dozens of benefits that trees and green
spaces give us, including in stormwater collection and preventing
flooding. Northwestern PhD Candidate Colleen O'Brien (and member
of our podcast team!) shares a bit more about the fascinating
questions being asked about green spaces in environmental
engineering research and how green infrastructure policy can be
designed with communities in mind. 

If you want to learn more about the topics discussed in this
episode, check out:


"The climate crisis haunts Chicago's future. A battle between
a great city and a great lake" by the New York Times 

"Green infrastructure: how to manage water in a sustainable
way" by the NRDC

"Chicago's Green Space: Inequitable for 100 years" 

Adopt a tree through Openlands' Treekeepers!

"How one Boston neighborhood stopped gentrification in its
tracks" 

Happy City by Charles Montgomery (book)




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