Greening cities makes for safer neighbourhoods

J. Morgan Grove and Michelle Kondo (United States Forest Service) explain that when under-served neighbourhoods are made more pleasant, it can result in a healthier sense of community. In turn, it makes those neighbourhoods less hospitable to criminal activity.

Australia’s plantation boom has gone bust, so let’s make them carbon farms

Jason Alexandra (Policy Partners and Charles Darwin University) argues that the boom and bust cycle for Australian plantations', with its focus on using fast money for fast-growing eucalypts, mostly for pulpwood, has obscured other important opportunities.