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Why Every City Should Be Planting Rain Gardens

Why Every City Should Be Planting Rain Gardens | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it
They save lots of money - and that's just their most obvious benefit.

 

"Andy Wible’s backyard in Washington, D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood doesn’t look much like a sewerage drain. But his Bayberry, Bee Balm, Iris and Golden Ragwort plants get the job done – and then some. Dug 30 inches* down and filled with a mixture of sand, topsoil and compost, Wible's rain garden draws raindrops tumbling off the roof deep into the soil, purifying them and recharging the groundwater."


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Rapid and deep emissions reductions may not be easy, but 4°C to 6°C will be much worse”

Rapid and deep emissions reductions may not be easy, but 4°C to 6°C will be much worse” | Vertical Farm - Food Factory | Scoop.it

Could you share with us your analysis of where you think we find ourselves in terms of climate change and what’s our current trajectory if we carry on as we are?

 

Can we for definite, in your opinion, say that this year’s extreme weather can be linked to climate change?

 

But would you say that if we were still at 280 parts per million it would be much less likely that we would have had a summer like this?

 

Sometimes people talk about this idea of ‘a new normal’, that the basic conditions around us have changed. In terms of what’s happening in terms of the climate, how would you characterise the ‘new normal’ that we’re in given the rise we’ve had in emissions so far? ...


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