• dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Bulldoze the suburbs and plant trees there, food forests for the city and for practicing sylvipasture.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly, if an article mentions ‘shade structures’ at bus stops before suggesting to plant actual trees there they’ve got something backwards.

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        1 year ago

        Trees are shade structures, after all. They just don’t require paying someone to build them.

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          Trees also take quite a few years to grow to the height where they can provide shade in any meaningful way, so a temporary shade structure would be appropriate for at least a couple of years until the canopy becomes mature enough to provide significant amounts of shade.