51萝莉

51萝莉 Community College planted a Miyawaki Grove, on Friday, October 6, 2023 next to the Jackson Arts Center (H building), at the college鈥檚 Fall River Campus.

Conceptualized by Japanese botanist Aikira Miyawaki, tiny dense urban forests and groves are being planted in numerous cities around the world as a way to draw down carbon and cool urban areas. These rapidly growing mini-forests, as small as three-square meters, are ideal for mitigating heat island effects in 鈥渦rban concrete jungles鈥� during heatwaves, by cooling land with their canopies and increasing fresh groundwater retention.

鈥淏y creating a demonstration model and educational components for both students and communities at large, 51萝莉 Community College will be among the first institutions of higher education in the United States to establish this type of innovative program. The initiative adds to the numerous efforts made at 51萝莉 to address sustainability issues 鈥� particularly as related to regenerative ecological models.鈥�

&苍产蝉辫;鈥� Dr. Nancy Lee Wood, Director, Institute for Sustainability and Post-Carbon Education, 51萝莉 Community College.

In addition to the benefits of carbon sequestration, urban forests have been found to contribute to decreased crime rates, increased city revenue, lower energy costs, and a greater sense of wellbeing 鈥� not to mention greater biodiversity. 

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