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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