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#TNOCessay Learning Climate Lessons from My 5-Year-Old — Lindsay Campbell (New York City)
What can a five-year-old teach us about climate change?
Sometimes the most meaningful climate lessons begin with a child’s question.
Read the essay:
www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/03...
#TNOCessay Urban Mini-forests Can Reinvent How Cities Grow, Learn, and Respond to Climate Stress
Rafael Ribeiro & Sheila Ceccon — São Paulo
What if climate resilience started with tiny forests in schoolyards and vacant lots?
www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/02...
#UrbanNature #MiniForests #NbS
#TNOCEssay From living in nature → to living as nature.
A call to step outside, learn with First Nations, and create new urban rituals of care for the more-than-human city. 🌱
Read: www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/02...
#UrbanBiodiversity #MoreThanHumanCities
From alleyway games to play among ruins, this powerful essay reflects on childhood, memory, and the right to safe public space in a city rebuilding itself.
When children can play freely again, a city begins to heal.
Read more: bit.ly/4aN5S98
#TNOCessay #ChildFriendlyCities #PublicSpace #Damascus
@margauxboeraeve.bsky.social
🌿 We’re running a short global survey listening to how civil society organisations work with nature in their communities.
4–12 min • anonymous • multilingual
Part of the EU project #NetworkNature.
Please take part & share 💚 @biodiversa.eu @iclei.org
👉 thenatureofcities.typeform.com/to/iM8zPyV7
🐝✨ A #NBSComic has just landed!
At Sweet-Spot, flower strips are blooming and pollinators buzzing. Reports say the ecosystem is thriving… but is it really?
To Bee or Not to Bee explores the promise — and pitfalls — of NbS like flower strips.
📖 nbscomics.com/2026/02/17/t...
#NetworkNature
You can still participate in this survey! Interesting questions about how we connect with nature and the challenges we face.
🌍 Reminder: Global Survey on Citizen Action for Nature
The last major survey on nature-based solutions was in 2015 — and only in Europe.
This new global survey updates the picture with today’s realities and community voices worldwide.
🗺️ Add your voice by Jan 15
👉 buff.ly/NLzQTxG
🌿🐾 What if wildlife were stakeholders in urban planning?
A new #TNOCroundtable explores cities as shared habitats — and what changes when we design with, not just around, nature.
Join the conversation:
🔗 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/02...
#UrbanNature #MoreThanHumanCities #Biodiversity
#TNOCessay
What if cemeteries could also support biodiversity and community wellbeing?
May East explores how burial grounds are being reimagined as living urban commons.
👉 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/02...
Have you visited a place like this?
🚲 Sparking #ActiveMobility in the Philippines! In Quezon City and Pasig City, the IKI-funded #SPARKproject shows how short-term street pilots can boost walking and cycling, cut emissions, and build strong community ownership.
@iki-germany.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaeh...
If you care about nature in urban areas, you'll want to read this new roundtable at @tnoc.bsky.social on how we can "give wildlife a place as stakeholders in decisions about urban planning", which has essays from 22 contributors (incl me) from 18 cities around the world! Come join the conversation.
🌱 Open Call | We support & invite you to share your story
At TNOC, we support and invite initiatives caring for parks, community gardens, riverbanks & green corridors to join the What’s That Green? Governance Lab.
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Feb
👉 whatisthatgreen.com/open-call-wh...
Nature lover?
Community builder?
Educator, activist, neighbour, volunteer?
Curious how nature can help solve real problems?
✨ This survey is for you.
Your voice helps shape a Citizen Action Roadmap for Nature
👉 thenatureofcities.typeform.com/to/iM8zPyV7
Tag someone who should join @iclei.org
🌍 We’re heading to #UrbanFuture 2026 in Ljubljana!
Bold ideas, real action, better cities.
Check out the programme 👉 urban-future.org/event/uf26-l...
We’ll be there — join us! 🚀
#UF26 #CityChangers #BetterCities
New #TNOCessay
Laura Shillington asks: what happens when students trust AI more than their own senses?
A sharp, honest reflection on education, GenAI, curiosity & being human in a techno-social-natural world. 🌱📱
www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/01...
How Artists Help to Transform Natural Resources Management: Building a Theory of Change
A coral essay by 7 voices across Glasgow, New York & Amsterdam.
Not about linear solutions — but trust, time, imagination, and working with complexity.
Read on The Nature of Cities buff.ly/Ja6QYKo
#TNOCessay
Over the past weeks, people from many different countries, regions, and community contexts worldwide have already shared their experiences, challenges, and ideas for working with nature.
👉 Add your voice and help strengthen a truly global roadmap: buff.ly/dwQLfcv
The Nature of Cities is part of the programme at Urban Future 2026, joining a global community of CityChangers to inspire, challenge & connect.
📍 Ljubljana | 24–27 March 2026
👉 Join the movement & register: buff.ly/7gfLLSl
#PeopleMakeCities #UrbanFuture #UF26 #TheNatureOfCities #CityChangers
@carlyziter.bsky.social
#TNOCEssay
Carly Ziter reflects on returning to her hometown of Windsor and discovering how cities, even those shaped by industrial mythologies, can begin to repair, resist, and re-imagine their relationship with nature.
👉 Read the full essay and join the conversation: buff.ly/zaExP5D
Perhaps “Why not here” is the question we should all be asking as we re-imagine urban nature in the places we love.
New essay from me in @tnoc.bsky.social, reflecting on a recent visit home, and the beauty and potential of an often-overlooked city.
www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/01...
5–10 Oct 2026 | Cali, Colombia 🇨🇴
The The Nature of Cities Festival arrives in Latin America for the first time.
🌿 Theme: TRUEQUE — exchange of knowledge, creativity, trust & care for cities that care for life.
🤝 Sponsors & collaborators welcome
Join us
👉 tnoc-festival.com/wp/#HELP
🌿 We’re running a short global survey listening to how civil society organisations work with nature in their communities.
4–12 min • anonymous • multilingual
Part of the EU project #NetworkNature.
Please take part & share 💚 @biodiversa.eu @iclei.org
👉 thenatureofcities.typeform.com/to/iM8zPyV7
As TNOC enters its 15th year, we’re grateful for this global community that keeps asking good questions, holding complexity, and pushing boundaries with care and hope. 🌱
👉 Revisit the highlights from TNOC 2025:
🔗 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/01...
✨ What does it mean to be a good ancestor?
44 voices come together in this #TNOCRoundtable by The Nature of Cities to reflect on a question that connects us all
Start the year with this reading
Join the conversation & share what resonated
Tag someone who should read it
🔗https://bit.ly/4bjKGJK
#TheNatureOfGraffiti
Cheetah — Cape Town, South Africa
Submitted by: Pippin Anderson
A cheetah painted on a city wall — fast, alert, and impossible to ignore.
🔗 buff.ly/y369MNh
#TheNatureOfGraffiti
When Nature and Art Merge — Bangalore, India
🖋 by David Maddox
Photographed in Cubbon Park, one of Bangalore’s largest green lungs and historic public spaces.
🔗 buff.ly/O6PLLfv
