by Mark Douglas Wessel | Mar 9, 2023 | Stories
Original source: Ontario Home Builders’ Association The Advance of Permeable Surfaces In 2010, flood damage in urban areas, including homes, businesses and public infrastructure in Canada, registered at approximately $3 billion according to the World Resources...
by Mark Douglas Wessel | Mar 9, 2023 | Stories
Original source: Landscape Trades Green spaces play key role in mitigating the urban heat island effect A blistering heat wave killed hundreds of people across the Pacific Northwest in British Columbia, Oregon and Washington state in the summer of 2021. In B.C.,...
by Mark Douglas Wessel | Mar 7, 2023 | Stories
Original source: CityTalk In Montreal, they’re building Canada’s largest urban park. Once complete, the 8,000-hectare nature sanctuary will be eight times as large as New York’s Central Park. In Bonn, green roofs are now mandatory for any surface larger than 200...
by Mark Douglas Wessel | Mar 7, 2023 | Stories
Original source: CityTalk “Humanity’s relationship with nature is broken.” That’s the unsettling observation UN Secretary General António Guterres made in a recent speech that Kobie Brand says helps keep things in perspective for her in her capacity as Global...
by Mark Douglas Wessel | Mar 7, 2023 | Stories
Original source: UrbanNet Quito bears the brunt of climate change, from 100-year storms to mudslides to heat waves – all part of the city’s ‘new normal.’ Urban journalist Mark Douglas Wessel explores how Ecuador’s capital is leveraging the power of Nature-based...
