Pamela Templer
Rules of Life in the Urban Biome
Cities are expanding around the world, with unexpected impacts on the non-human organisms that live there. Recently, it was discovered that urban trees grow four times faster than rural trees, despite there being a multitude of environmental stressors in cities and the loss of typical below ground mechanisms for nutrient acquisition, stress tolerance, and pathogen […]
A Comprehensive Regional Framework for Sustainability
Many U.S. cities are simultaneously confronting two interrelated, but tragically siloed issues: environmental impact and access to affordable housing. Central to both is sound land use policy. Where people live, what people build, and what people keep or make green matters not just to a neighborhood, but to the nation. Cities have a responsibility to […]