SUGi Life
Discover news, insights, field notes, our pocket forests, and beyond
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Are You Plant Blind?
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Why we need Urban Biodiversity
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Healing Manhattan: Inspiring Community Through NYC’s First Pocket Forest
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Reimagining Education: 62 Forests, 62 Schools, One Community-Led Vision
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Cultivating Connections: Inspiring Belgian Citizens to Reconnect with Nature

Tree Equity: Rehabilitating São Paulo’s Atlantic Forests and Communities
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Reconnecting Roots: Restoring Cape Town’s Diverse Heritage Through Forests
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Film Premiere: Healing Forest
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Trees Are Ecosystems
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Green walls stop floodings
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Pocket forests can power up to 30 lives
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Concrete Jungle to Sponge City
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200-year-old forest in 20 years
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In Search of Light by David Olayide
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Forest Succession: Nature's Path to Resilience
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5 Steps to Create a Pocket Forest
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The Urban Time Warp
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The Urban Green Space Gap
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The Environmental Impact of Suburban Sprawl by Peter Essick
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Where Can You Plant a Pocket Forest?
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What Are Green Deserts?
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SUGi Pocket Forests – Cape Town
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Yvy-Mara Ey (Tierra Sin Mal / Land Without Evil) by Mauricio Holc
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2024 SUGi x NAVA Photography Contest – Winners
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What Are Disaster Proofing Forests?
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What Are Pollinator Pathways?
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Can Miyawaki Forests Store More Carbon?
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The Miyawaki Method for Creating Forests
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London Heat Map
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What Is Urban Acupuncture?
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New York City Gets a Pocket Forest
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What Is Companion Planting?
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2024 SUGi Fellowship | Winners
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Why We Build Biodiversity for Our Pocket Forests to Thrive
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Case Study: Teufelsberg | Berlin, Germany
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New York Native Trees
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Why Do Cities Need to Be More Biodiverse?
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Concrete Outweighs the Carbon Mass of Every Tree, Bush, and Shrub on this Planet
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Are Plants Conscious?
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SUGi Pockets Forests for Nature Deficit Disorder
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Connecting with Nature
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An Oasis for Laughter
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SUGi Tree Guide: Tree Bark
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Don't Look Up!
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Urban Trees Grow Faster
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Why Are Coastal Forests So Important?
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Why Do We Need Plant Diversity?
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Nippon Steel Forest: Transforming Industrial Wastelands
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The Meiji Jingu Shrine
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The Metro Forest Bangkok, Thailand
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SUGi Pocket Forest: Urban Heat Profile
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Winners: SUGi x NAVA Photography Contest - 2023
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Abu Dhabi's Forgotten Planting Project
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SUGi Tree Guide: Tree Shapes
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Urban Acupuncture in London
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Pocket Forests Cool Cities
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Building Immunity Through Biodiversity
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Pocket Forests Prevent Floods

Diverse Forests Absorb More CO2
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What Is the Miyawaki Method?
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The Women of SUGi
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Why We Create Urban Forests
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Why We Plant Densely
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The Chipko Movement
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Trees Can Suffer From Loneliness
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The Tree of Life
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Trees for Bees
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SUGi Impact Report — 2022
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Forest Gardens of North America
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Atlas Mountains Forest
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Hunter Gatherer Ancestors of Mesolithic Europe
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The Ziarat Juniper Forest
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Why Do We Need Biodiverse Forest Ecosystems to Combat Climate Change?
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Winners: SUGi x NAVA Photography Contest 2022
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The Atlantic Hazelwoods
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Maya Forest Gardens
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Church Forest, Ethiopia
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Where Can You Plant a Miyawaki Forest?
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Why Do Urban Trees Grow Faster?
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Ghaf Trees
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What Is Forest Transpiration?
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Cool Caterpillars
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Why Do Diverse Forests Store More Carbon?
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SUGi Fellowship 2022 — Finalist
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Temperate Rainforest
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Urban Tree Cover
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Oak Trees — The Kings of Biodiversity
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Meet the Judges — SUGi X NAVA Photography contest
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What Makes Miyawaki Forests Unique?
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What Is an Ecosystem?
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What Is 'Holon'?
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Why Is Soil Preparation Important in the Miyawaki Method?
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SUGi x NAVA Photography Contest
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The Fanal Forest
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Spring Season Has Sprung
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What Is Biodiversity?
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SUGi Fellowship 2022
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What Is Soil Compaction?
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Celebrating the Women of SUGi
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Children Need Nature to Thrive
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Forests Are Social
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The Sugi Tree ( 杉 )
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Why Do We Need Forest Cover?
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Why We Use the Miyawaki Method
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Why Do We Need Forest Diversity?
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Earthworms Close Up
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SUGi Impact Report — 2021
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SUGi at COP26 - Taking Direct Action
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A New Type of Forestry: Managing Forests as Communities?
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Weeds or Pioneering Plants?
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Urban Forests Can Help Cities Adapt to the Impacts of Climate Change
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The Rare Species Advantage
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