[HN Gopher] Could miniature forests help air-condition cities?
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       Could miniature forests help air-condition cities?
        
       Author : a_w
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-07-02 19:50 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | edoceo wrote:
       | Oh man. When Seattle was removing the Fun Forest from Seattle
       | Center I remember calling the council and asking them to replace
       | with a real forest. Would have been cool (literally and
       | figuratively) to have an acre or two of Cascadia native trees so
       | close to a downtown core.
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       | Got a glass museum and a astro-turf kids park instead.
        
         | darksaints wrote:
         | Not to say that that wouldn't be pretty cool, but we also have
         | Discovery Park and it's only like a couple of miles away from
         | Seattle Center. It's a legitimate Cascadian forest.
        
       | lukas099 wrote:
       | I want to create a miniature forest on my property one day. Does
       | anyone here have experience doing anything like that?
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | https://archive.is/gl6cY
        
       | aliasEli wrote:
       | What I especially like about his approach that he selects local
       | species. This helps other local species like plants and animals.
        
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