ESSAYS | POINTS OF VIEW
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The Youth Advocacy Playbook: How Youth Mobilize Knowledge for a #FossilFreeFuture
Global youth climate movements, such as Fridays for Future (FFF) to climate activists like Greta Thunberg, both center science for climate action. However, science is inadequate for solving ethical problems of systemic inequalities, discrimination, or exploitation—core issues that the youth climate movement highlights since they see climate change as a justice and ethical issue. The…
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Participatory Mapping of Networks of Care and Nature-based Solutions in Detroit
There are many different perspectives and visions for Detroit’s past, present, and future. Some of these perspectives have focused on the idea of emptiness, depicting spaces as lacking connections or relationships. Maps have played a key role in reinforcing this idea of “emptiness” by highlighting areas of low density and vacant land. Detroit has a…
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Great Salt Lake Part III: Finding joy in the smallest of things
Loving All That Remains I sifted through my memories and quickly found her. She was reflecting the sky above as if a mirror, solidifying their bond, widening the laws of spatial recognition, and blurring the separation of above and below. I can see the perfect portraits of her islands in reverse as they rose above…
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Cities and communities that are better for nature and all people, through transdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration.
We combine art, science, and practice in innovative and publicly available engagements for knowledge-driven, imaginative, and just green city making.
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TNOC FESTIVAL 2026
The journey to greener,
more inclusive cities
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SPROUT POETRY JOURNAL
ISSUE 4: CARE
This latest issue includes works that interrogate the modes of engaging with others in (urban and natural) space that can speak to the interrelated dimensions of care.
NBS COMICS: NATURE TO SAVE THE WORLD
26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity
Now a global project with over ONE MILLION readers, we invite comic creators from all over the world to imagine comics about how people and nature might thrive together. Nature-based Solutions (NBS) Comics empowers creators to combine science and storytelling.
STORIES OF TNOC: VOLUME 2
Cheeky monkeys, vertical farms, climate change, and tree tribunals. Our latest collection features 49 short stories from 20 countries that radically re-imagine city life.
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THE NATURE OF GRAFFITI
This is the nature of graffiti. It facilitates speech. It speaks to us. It stakes claims and makes statements. It tells stories.
The Nature of Cities hosts a public gallery about the graffiti and street art that motivates us in public places.
REVERBERATIONS EXHIBITION
Close your eyes. What do you hear?
An exhibition exploring the elements through art, science, and sound, with over 30 contributors from various disciplines in a multimedia experience. Produced by the USDA Forest Service and The Nature of Cities.
THE JUST CITY ESSAYS
