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Internet Of Nature

Mar 6, 2025

The hidden roots of a dispute

Ground penetrating radar is changing urban forestry by striking a balance between development and tree preservation
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Feb 14, 2025

Trees on top

The Urban Jungle Project offers a blueprint for modern-day rewilding. We just have to look up.
Oct 22, 2024

Sponge city concept helps manage stormwater runoff

In recent years, city planners, landscape architects and green professionals have started to focus on designing urban spaces that work with nature instead of fighting against it.
May 10, 2024

Every landscape has a soundscape

Imagine walking into your neighborhood park. What do you see? What do you smell? What can you touch? And what do you hear? Birds chirping, leaves rustling in the wind and the distant hum of city life. This rich tapestry of sensory experiences, or “soundscape,” forms the backdrop against which Dr. Mike Edwards, co-founder of Sound Matters together with Harry Coade, invites us to reconsider our relationship with sound.
Mar 14, 2024

How satellites and AI ignite hope in Canada's battle against wildfires

A dedicated effort is now underway to unravel the intricate causes of wildfires and institute preventative measures. This involves reflecting on current forestry practices, development in fire-prone areas, and, as I will discuss with you today, the integration of state-of-the-art technologies.
Dec 6, 2023

NatureDose: A game-changer for well-being research

How this emerging technology can influence landscape design for better health
NatureQuant utilizes diverse data inputs to compute NatureScore™ – a measurement of the natural elements that optimize your health within a one-km radius of your location.
Aug 1, 2023

The green factor

How one company is using data to map our proximity to and contact with nature — and why that matters so much to public health.
Apr 27, 2023

Make soil great again

Bowie the Birch makes use of sap-flow sensors to measure his vascular health like a heart monitor, a dendrometer to measure his growth, and relative humidity and temperature sensors to understand his microclimate.
Mar 8, 2023

Meet the plant influencers that are actually plants

Bowie makes use of sap-flow sensors to measure his vascular health like a heart monitor, a dendrometer to measure his growth, and relative humidity and temperature sensors to understand his microclimate.
Dec 4, 2022

Smart new ways to protect wise old trees

Bigger trees have bigger crowns. Bigger crowns expel more oxygen, add more value to your home, provide more shade, filter more air and offer more habitat to wildlife. Human health and well-being are comparatively affected more too.
Nadina is a new columnist for Landscape Trades.
Aug 2, 2022

Trees can talk - Are we listening?

In this new regular column, Nadina will spotlight Internet of Nature (IoN) technologies and practitioners making a difference in how we can optimize soil health, manage urban forests, create liveable cities, and everything in between.

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