{"id":747,"date":"2007-05-21T22:27:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=747"},"modified":"2007-05-21T22:27:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T20:27:54","slug":"cooling-singapore-with-urban-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/cooling-singapore-with-urban-gardens.html","title":{"rendered":"Cooling Singapore with Urban Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006735.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/postimages\/toparticle\/6735_toparticlephoto.jpg\" alt=\"Article Photo\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A growing culture of urban gardening in Singapore and other major cities in Asia may hold the key to reducing city temperatures, Reuters reports. Apartment dwellers who tire of endless rows of concrete buildings have resorted to planting vegetables in boxes, trees in troughs, and even lawns on concrete yards. Gardeners boast of the visual aesthetics of the gardens, but the vegetation itself has the added benefit of blocking the sun\u2019s rays and lowering temperatures through evapotranspiration, according to experts. The high-rise gardening movement started small but is growing, participants say. \u201cI thought I was the only one\u2014the only odd nut, the only crazy person interested in growing vegetables,\u201d said Wilson Wong, a Singaporean who started a website where fellow urbanites can share advice and arrange nursery shopping trips and plant swaps. Furn Li, who transformed his concrete balcony into a garden featuring aquatic life, giant tropical ferns, and white pebbles, won Singapore\u2019s first \u201capartment gardener of the year\u201d award last year. And Hong Kong resident Arthur Van Langenberg has written the book Urban Gardening, documenting his lush urban garden that showcases hundreds of plants and several tree varieties. The government of Singapore is recognizing the importance of urban gardens&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006735.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Posted by <b>WorldChanging Team<\/b> in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/search\/?category=70&amp;search=Go\">Climate Change<\/a><\/i> at  9:31 AM)<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/worldchanging_fulltext\/~4\/118484092\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing culture of urban gardening in Singapore and other major cities in Asia may hold the key to reducing city temperatures, Reuters reports. Apartment dwellers who tire of endless rows of concrete buildings have resorted to planting vegetables in boxes, trees in troughs, and even lawns on concrete yards. Gardeners boast of the visual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}