You really can plant trees all over a city, to make it cleaner and better

                                      Image: Stefano Boeri Architetti

Picture a Chinese city scene and, chances are, you’re not seeing much green. But the Liuzhou Forest City is set to challenge perceptions about urban living in the country and be a breath of fresh air - literal and metaphorical - for its 30,000 inhabitants.

The new city, being built in southern China’s mountainous Guangxi area, will bring nature to an urban setting, with over 40,000 trees and 1 million plants covering every building.

The green city follows a string of ‘vertical forest’ projects - highrise buildings swathed in green - being built around the world. But Liuzhou Forest City, set to be completed by 2020, takes things to a whole new level.

Image: Stefano Boeri Architetti

Each year the trees will absorb 10,000 tons of CO2 and 57 tons of pollutants. They should produce about 900 tons of oxygen a year, too.

The architects behind the idea, Stefano Boeri Architetti, say the plants will also decrease the average air temperature, create noise barriers and boost biodiversity by creating a habitat for birds, insects and small animals.

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A 21st-century city

The new city will have all the mod cons expected from a new development including fast rail and road links and will be self-sufficient in its energy, with geothermal-powered air conditioning and solar panels on the roofs.

Image: Stefano Boeri Architetti

Urban forests

The concept of blending the green and urban environments has been attracting plenty of interest in recent years. Boeri’s team is also behind the Nanjing ‘vertical forest’ - two skyscrapers covered in trees and greenery in the east of China, due to be completed in 2018. The Bosco Verticale, which can already be seen in Milan and Singapore, has its own supertree buildings.

Boeri has also come up with a prototype for a larger-scale forest city in Shijiazhuang, one of China’s most polluted cities. Smog is a persistent problem in China, with Beijing and a number of its other major cities put on warning late last year as the authorities issued red alerts.

Planners hope that building with vertical forests will also help to reduce urban sprawl, a growing problem as increasing numbers of people migrate from country to town. Over half of the world’s population now lives in towns and cities, and this number is expected to grow by just under 2% a year.

2018 is almost here. Experts say we have three more years to save the planet from the effects of climate changes

A planet devastated by climate change may seem like a distant future. But Earth is already experiencing effects today. (just look out the window)

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''Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.''
''That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.''

By:( Geraldo Rivera / Whoopi Goldberg )

From the “flexible deadlines department” and the World Economic Forum. Prince Charles said back in 2009 that “we have 100 months to save the world”. That deadline looked like it wouldn’t happen so in 2015 he extended the deadline 35 more years. You’d think these people would talk and get their stories straight.

Six scientists and diplomats have published a letter urging governments, businesses and others to address climate issues.

Globally, the mean rate of sea level rise increased 50% in the last two decades. In 2017, temperatures have already reached their highest levels in history in some areas, from California to Vietnam. And the past three years were the hottest on record.

In a new open letter, six prominent scientists and diplomats, including former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres and physicist Stefan Rahmstorf, wrote that the world has approximately three years before the worst effects of climate change take hold. Published June 28, the letter urges governments, businesses, scientists, and citizens to address the world's greenhouse-gas emissions now.

If emissions can be permanently lowered by 2020, global temperatures will likely avoid reaching an irreversible threshold, they wrote. Impacts would include rapid deforestation, floods from rising sea levels, and unpredictable weather shifts that could ravage agriculture and affect life on the coasts, where the vast majority of people live.

Their plan includes six goals for 2020:

Increase renewable energy to 30% of electricity use.

Draft plans for cities and states to ditch fossil fuel energy by 2050, with funding of $300 billion annually.

Ensure 15% of all new vehicles sold are electric.

Cut net emissions from deforestation.

Publish plan for halving emissions from deforestation well before 2050.

Encourage the financial sector to issue more "green bonds" toward climate-mitigation efforts.

The letter's goals are at odds with the priorities of the Trump administration, which has signalled that climate change is not on its agenda. In early June, President Trump announced that, in 2019, the US will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, which sets national benchmarks for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions.

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The authors call for cities and businesses to fight emissions and meet the Paris accord goals, even without the help of the US government.

"We stand at the doorway of being able to bend the emissions curve downwards by 2020, as science demands, in protection of the UN sustainable development goals, and in particular the eradication of extreme poverty," Figures said in a press release.

"This monumental challenge coincides with an unprecedented openness to self-challenge on the part of sub-national governments inside the US, governments at all levels outside the US, and of the private sector in general. The opportunity given to us over the next three years is unique in history."

''The big question can we start making a global Oasis  started in 2018. Or we will destroy it totally. Well to be 100% accurate the world wont die the planet wont die. We will die by are own hands. The end of the world is just for  end for human kind. Think about this.'' 

                                                                               (quote from : H. Arghenon)

If your forgotten how beautiful is this place we live in. 
Then just take a look here: Planet Earth In her full beauty   ( YouTube video By: Robert Revol)