🌳 #TNOCMostRead — JULY Some essays keep showing up in our archive because the questions they ask won't go away What happens when we conserve urban nature without accounting for the past, and what it might mean to be paying a bill we can't yet see? Join the conversation 📖 buff.ly/2qgKdc0

🌊 New #TNOCessay Istanbul's Northern Watersheds provide drinking water to 16 million people. Yet they are almost entirely absent from Urban Living Lab discussions. Özge Çelik Yılmaz asks why. 🌱 buff.ly/4C6KnnP

🌿 New #TNOCRoundtable What are ways to extend the values and benefits of botanical gardens beyond their walls? 27 voices, 18 cities, 4 continents. 🌱 Curated by Olivia Bina & Eric W. Sanderson. buff.ly/81RPOmh

🌿 Is there a nature-based solution in your city that no one outside your city has heard of? A small project. Something beautiful. Something working. That's the one. ✨ Contribute to our first-ever NbS exhibition: buff.ly/AcClc3b

Three cities. Three ways of noticing what is already here. One question, asked in each place: who else is living here? 🌱 buff.ly/iRVA3F3

Exciting news! This September we kick off HARVEST, our new #HorizonEurope project coordinated by @upf.edu At TNOC, we'll help tell new stories that reconnect farming, landscapes, and society—because thriving cities need thriving rural communities. More soon! 🌱 #HARVESTProject #Agriculture

We are building an exhibition where NbS come alive through visuals, stories, and genuine science. And it's being shaped by the people, places, and projects doing this work everywhere! Contribute here and be part of the first-ever NbS exhibition! → buff.ly/jGyzice #NbSExhibit #NatureWorks

🌳 New #TNOCessay One city. Three communities held together by trees. One of planting. One of harvest. One of healing. By Pickett, Murphy-Dunning & Grove. 🌱 buff.ly/Ibkv6cf

Be part of the first-ever co-created NbS exhibition! 🌍 The Nature of Cities is gathering photos, stories & findings from urban nature projects worldwide. Contribute → buff.ly/jGyzice Deadline: 31 July #NatureBasedSolutions #NbSExhibit #UrbanNature

🔥 #TNOCMostRead As heat waves grip Europe, Asia & the American South, June's most-read essay couldn't be more timely. "The Two Planets of Urban Heat" by Rob McDonald One planet has air conditioning. The other doesn't. 🌳 buff.ly/DcmgIMI

🌿 New #TNOCRoundtable When we talk about greening cities, we usually talk about adding. Trees, wetlands, corridors. Rarely about *what would have to give*. This roundtable insisted we do. 🌱 Join the conversation: buff.ly/ik9oIpf

New #TNOCessay Why Do Humans Need Darkness? by Felipe Camolesi Modesto "A society that cannot tolerate darkness may struggle to coexist with anything it cannot fully control." 🌙 buff.ly/wvxigik

⏰ Reminder — deadline is July 31! 🌿 Be part of the first-ever travelling NbS exhibition across European cities. 👉 Submit by 31 July 2026: buff.ly/EgIQUpE Questions? Reach out to Bettina Wilk at bettina.wilk@thenatureofcities.eu

Earlier this year our founder David Maddox taught at the Master in Urban Resilience at UIC Barcelona. Student Ella Matsdotter just published her reflections — on cities as living systems, creativity as resilience, and justice as non-negotiable in NbS work. So glad she shared it. 🌿 📖 buff.ly/pBPL3aI

🐟 New #TNOCessay They named her Bubbles. An ancient fish — swam alongside dinosaurs, now at 1% of her abundance — raised for nine months by middle schoolers, then released into the Detroit River. By John Hartig 🌿 buff.ly/1V9EZd5

You've heard of Dandora. But not like this A hidden waterfall, a community-led park, and a neighbourhood quietly shaping Nairobi's climate future. We walk through it on June 27 Register: buff.ly/gACufa7 Can't join in person? A virtual fieldtrip drops after — follow #TheNatureOfNairobi. #WalkingTNOC

🌿 New #TNOCessay The World is a Garden of Edges by Loan Diep — NYC A São Paulo favela presses against a luxury tower with private pools curling from its balconies. Loan asks us to look again. "Margins contain. Edges connect." 🌿 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/06...

🌿 #TNOCMostRead — last 30 days Why does a wildflower meadow look "messy" while a mowed lawn looks "cared for"? Not ecology. #Culture. A 2018 essay still pulling readers — Cues to Care by Mark Hostetler, building on Joan Nassauer's foundational work. 🌱 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2018/08...

1/ 🌿 New #TNOCessay Sharing Space: People and Wildlife in Bengaluru's Home Gardens by Varsha Bhaskaran Bengaluru has lost ~90% of its green cover. But behind compound walls and on rooftops, something quiet and remarkable is happening — and the cobra story is unforgettable. 🧵

🌍 New #TNOCRoundtable Whose voices shape — and don't shape — Nature-based Solutions? What could real inclusion look like in practice? 📖 Join the conversation: www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/05... #NatureBasedSolutions #NbS #UrbanNature #EnvironmentalJustice #CoCreation #Biodiversity

1/ New #TNOCessay 🌿 Students and Stewardship: Connecting with Nature in a Peri-urban University Campus by Aswathy Arun, Seema Mundoli & Harini Nagendra — Bengaluru 🇮🇳 The first rule of their campus BioBlitz? Put your phone away. 🧵↓

#TNOCGazette lands in inboxes around the world — bringing essays, roundtables, and stories from the frontier where disciplines meet to re-imagine our cities. Join thousands of readers, thinkers, and doers across the globe. 📩 Subscribe — thenatureofcities.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe/?u...

🌿 BOTANICAL TURN — call open! Int'l competition reimagining botanical gardens as active urban infrastructures. 📍Lisbon · Cagliari · Lima 🏆3 winners · 🖼️exhibition · 📖booklet ✅Free · deadline Sept 18 Brief 👇 www.non-a.com/botanical-tu... #BotanicalTurn #Naturescapes

Sacred groves outlast bulldozers. Funeral trees host migratory birds. Temple ficus reroute highways. Hussain Ebrahim's #TNOCEssay Plant Journal makes the case that ritual and reverence are some of the most resilient urban conservation tools we have. www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/05... 🌳

Who really gets to feel at home in "green space for all"? A new TNOC essay on queer intimacy, biodiversity, and the quiet politics of pruning. 🌿 Read it. Join the conversation. 🔗 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/05... #TNOCessay #QueerEcology #UrbanNature

🌱 Got an idea, project, or vision for a future where people and nature thrive together? The open call "Futures with Nature" is live for #NetworkNature Week at the Nature-based Solutions Congress 2026 in Paris. Join us. Deadline: 30.06. 2026 iucnbrussels.typeform.com/NetworkNature

#TNOCRountableRevisit Science is under siege. So is the ground we stand on. 25+ voices, one question: what now, when autocracy is strangling sustainability science? Join the conversation 🔗 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/03...

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#TNOCEssay What if The Cherry Orchard sparked debate on land use? Or An Enemy of the People became a lesson in environmental whistleblowing? Classic plays are living labs for ecology, power, and civic dialogue. 🔗 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/04... #EnvironmentalCommunication

🌿 What if the way forward is also a way back— to sensing, to listening, to remembering, we are part of the living world? 🔗 Read this 3-part #TNOCessay www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/categor... #NatureOfCities #Ryuiki #RegenerativeFutures