Christine Thuring
Vancouver
Christine Thuring is a plant ecologist who integrates her love of life into creative collaborations and educational dialogues. While her expertise is expressed particularly in the built environment (green roofs, living walls, habitat gardens), she is passionately practical and enjoys restoring peatlands, mentoring students, leading interpretive walks, and advocating sustainable and healthy lifestyles.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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The 6th Mass Extinction and Cities: A View from Vancouver
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Covid has upended all the normal routines in our lives and work. How do you imagine you might be changed by it, both professionally, but also personally as you negotiate a new post-virus “normal”?
Africa, Awareness, Biodiversity, Climate change, Communities, Conservation, Covid-19, Culture, Disasters/Red zone, Economics, Ecosystem services, Europe, Experiencing Nature, Green Infrastructure, Health, Justice, Livability, North America, Parks, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Pollution, Resilience, South America, Sustainability, Wildlife People Interactions -
Crows of Vancouver: The Middle Way Between Biophobia and Biophilia
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The Sheffield Street Tree Massacre: Notes from a Public-Private Partnership Gone Wrong
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Trees Are More than Just Trees: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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You say po-TAY-to. What ecologists and landscape architects don’t get about each other, but ought to.
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Designing Ecologically Sensitive Green Infrastructure that Serves People and Nature
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Why don’t all public buildings have green roofs? Or all large private buildings (e.g. businesses)? Would this be a good idea? What would it take to make it happen and to make it worthwhile?