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🌿 Urban Transformation: Medellín's Green Revolution 🌳 In 2016, Medellín, Colombia's second-largest city, launched an ambitious "green corridors" programme to combat air pollution and rising temperatures. The results are nothing short of impressive: ✅ 30+ green corridors connecting: Newly-greened road verges Vertical gardens Streams Parks Nearby hills 📊 Initial planting: 120,000 individual plants 12,500 trees on roads and in parks 🌱 Citywide expansion: 2.5 million new smaller plants 880,000 trees across Medellín This initiative showcases how cities can leverage nature-based solutions to address urban environmental challenges. Medellín's green corridors not only improve air quality and mitigate heat but also enhance biodiversity and create more livable spaces for residents. Also reducing the average temperature by 2,5C #UrbanPlanning #Sustainability #GreenCities #ClimateAction #Medellin

🌱 Medellín's Green Revolution: An Inspiring Transformation! 🌱 I’m always excited to see cities making a real difference in the fight against climate change while also prioritizing their development. 🌍 Medellín, Colombia, has done just that and the results are amazing! In just 3 years, Medellín has managed to lower its temperature by 2°C 🌡️. Officials expect a further decrease of 4° to 5°C 🌡️over the next few decades. How, you ask? Through their visionary "Green Corridors" project! What they achieved with minimal costs and tremendous results is impressive.🌿 ✨ What They Did: ✔ Transformed 30 areas of the city, including busy roads and riversides, into lush, green spaces 🌳. ✔ Created a cooler and more liveable environment for everyone ☀️. ✔ Boosted biodiversity and improved air quality—a win for both people and the planet! 🌎 💸 Curious about the initial costs? ✔ $16.3 million for the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometres of shaded routes. 🥁 Additional numbers? ✔In just one of Medellín’s corridors, the new vegetation growth would absorb 160,787 kg of CO2 per year and that over the next century 2,308,505 kg of CO2 will be taken up ✔ Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people. But this project is about more than just beating the heat— it’s a blueprint for sustainable urban development. 🌆 Medellín’s Green Corridors demonstrate how cities can grow and develop in harmony with nature, ensuring a healthy balance between urban progress and environmental stewardship. 🌿 I look forward to seeing more cities embrace this kind of balanced growth, where urban development and nature go hand in hand, creating healthier environments for people to thrive. 🌸 We can create urban spaces where both people and nature flourish! That’s why I plan to publish a series of posts about Medellín’s Green Corridors, aiming to provide a better understanding and, hopefully, encourage local public authorities in Romanian cities to adopt similar initiatives. 🌼 #UrbanSustainability #SustainableDevelopment #Medellin #GreenCorridors #FutureCities #PublicPolicy

Medellín's Green Corridors: Reducing temperature by up to 4°C at a cost of about $ 6.50 per person and a Breath of Fresh Air for Urban Living! 🌿🏙️ Exciting news from Colombia's second-largest city! Medellín has transformed 30 roads and waterways into green corridors, creating a network of plant life that's changing the urban landscape at a cost of about $ 6.50 per person🌳🛣️ Key achievements: • 36 hectares of new green areas added 🌱 • 8,300 trees and 350,000 shrubs planted 🌳🌺 • Urban heat reduced by up to 4°C 🌡️ • 75 tons of CO2 absorbed annually ♻️ • 75 new gardeners employed 👨🌾 👩🌾This innovative project not only beautifies the city but also improves air quality, reduces urban heat, and creates jobs. It's a great example of how cities can combat climate change while enhancing quality of life for residents. 🌍💚Medellín's success story proves that with vision and commitment, we can create greener, more livable cities. 🤔💡#UrbanGreening #SustainableCities #ClimateAction More here: https://lnkd.in/eqr83WmV

How to reduce the urban heat island effect effectively and in a way that can be sustained? Biophilic design. Medellín, Colombia's 2nd largest city completed a project in which they created 30 green corridors, creating a 20km interconnected network. "Tens of thousands of native trees, tropical plants, bamboo and palms have been planted along sidewalks, riverbanks and busy traffic thoroughfares, as well as in squares and parks." Besides encouraging cycling, creating jobs and improving air quality, the city has seen a difference in temperature. These green corridors are 4-5 degC lower, whilst the city on average is 2 degC lower. The increase in green public spaces also improves community well being and reducing societal ills. #sustainability #infrastructure #futurecities #greeninfrastructure #strategicforesight

Urban Forests - Can benefit all of our cities 🏞 Making everyone's quality of life, amazing 🗺 I have seen firsthand the benefits of living in Green cities. Firstly in Sheffield (UK) which is still 61% green. And in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) which is 41% green. Most recently I have just lived in Medellin, which has done a phenomenal job of rewilding large parts of the city, whilst creating green corridors across its road systems. Urban forests:  🌬 Keep our air cool  🌊 Help produce more running water  🚭 Filter out many air pollutants   🌄Can help tackle climate change   🌡 Helps bring city temperatures down   🦎 Helps increase local biodiversity Best of all, studies have often shown that property prices increase in value, and areas often become more desirable when they have more nature. #forest #health #biodiverse #greencity #greenspaces 

When we first proposed transforming this hotel's wastewater into a Vertical Ecosystem, many people thought we were crazy. Despite the skepticism and the challenges of getting permission, we were confident in our vision. We believed that if we succeeded, we could pave the way for cities to become regenerative with this technology. Today, this once unconventional idea has become a magical reality in the heart of Malaga, now one of the city's most photographed hotels. Before 1890, government regulations worldwide prevented buildings from exceeding 50 meters high. Then, in the 1900s, regulations shifted to allow skyscrapers to exceed 300 meters. Today, buildings can go over one kilometer high. However, building heights didn't rise because of policy change - they rose because dedicated people advanced construction technology. Similarly, my team and I at BIOTONOMY has spent over a decade advancing technologies to regenerate cities. Our goal was to prove to the government and the public that our technology could transform urban wastewater into thriving Vertical Ecosystems. Now, we are honored to have been awarded by the Government of #Spain and to collaborate with the city of Malaga to integrate this technology into their policies. We aim to make #Malaga a regenerative city and an inspiration to cities around the world. Join the transformation by signing up for our waiting list and get invited to participate in our projects and training programs - See link in my bio #Biotonomy #greencities #regenerative

🌍 As yesterday was #WorldHealthDay, we are reflecting on the wealth of benefits that green parks bring for public health and urban resilience. Medellín is a densely populated city, the second largest in Colombia, so maintaining green space is crucial. As green areas diminish, residents are increasingly impacted by flooding, water pollution, heat islands, and air pollution. We worked with C40 Cities Finance Facility and Alcaldía de Medellín to assess the proposed solution: the expansion of an urban park, Parques del Río Norte, to restore green space along the Medellín River, addressing the challenges arising from rapid urbanization and the impacts of climate change. A variety of environmental, economic, and social co-benefits also occur from green spaces, but they are consistently undervalued at critical points of the infrastructure planning process. We developed an integrated cost-benefit analysis to capture and quantify these and demonstrate the societal value of the park. Here are some key benefits of the Parques del Río Norte: 🌳 Green parks play a vital role in mitigating the urban heat island effect by releasing moisture into the atmosphere and providing shade. This helps to lower temperatures, improve air quality, and ultimately enhance human health. 🚴 With projected daily visitors of approximately 45,000 with an additional 5,000 cyclists using dedicated bike paths and trails, the benefits of increased daily exercise for the community are invaluable. 💰 These health benefits alone are estimated to be worth almost USD 500 million, highlighting the immense value that investing in green spaces can bring to a city. ⌛Over the next 30 years, Parques del Río Norte is projected to generate USD 1.67 in benefits for every dollar invested, demonstrating its remarkable return on investment and long-term value to the city of Medellín. Parques del Río Norte is an example of the benefits that re-greening our cities can bring. We can create healthier, more resilient cities for all. 🌿 🔎 Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/eDamGPu2 #HealthyCities #GreenSpaces #UrbanResilience #Medellín #ParquesDelRíoNorte #greeninfrastructure #greencities #climatechange Benjamin Simmons | Liesbeth Casier | David Uzsoki | Andrea M. Bassi | Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder | Ronja Bechauf | Nathalia Niño Giraldo | Marco Guzzetti | Michael Kapetanakis | Edoardo Carlucci | Henri Contor | Sebastian Mateu | Becca Challis | International Institute for Sustainable Development |

When we first proposed transforming this hotel's wastewater into a Vertical Ecosystem, many people thought we were crazy. Despite the skepticism and the challenges of getting permission, we were confident in our vision. We believed that if we succeeded, we could pave the way for cities to become regenerative with this technology. Today, this once unconventional idea has become a magical reality in the heart of Malaga, now one of the city's most photographed hotels. Before 1890, government regulations worldwide prevented buildings from exceeding 50 meters high. Then, in the 1900s, regulations shifted to allow skyscrapers to exceed 300 meters. Today, buildings can go over one kilometer high. However, building heights didn't rise because of policy change - they rose because dedicated people advanced construction technology. Similarly, our team at BIOTONOMY has spent over a decade advancing technologies to regenerate cities. Our goal was to prove to the government and the public that our technology could transform urban wastewater into thriving Vertical Ecosystems. Now, we are honored to have been awarded by the Government of #Spain and to collaborate with the city of Malaga to integrate this technology into their policies. We aim to make #Malaga a regenerative city and an inspiration to cities around the world. Join the transformation by signing up for our waiting list and get invited to participate in our projects and training programs - See link in our bio #Biotonomy #greencities #regenerative

When we first proposed transforming this hotel's wastewater into a Vertical Ecosystem, many people thought we were crazy. Despite the skepticism and the challenges of getting permission, we were confident in our vision. We believed that if we succeeded, we could pave the way for cities to become regenerative with this technology. Today, this once unconventional idea has become a magical reality in the heart of Malaga, now one of the city's most photographed hotels. Before 1890, government regulations worldwide prevented buildings from exceeding 50 meters high. Then, in the 1900s, regulations shifted to allow skyscrapers to exceed 300 meters. Today, buildings can go over one kilometer high. However, building heights didn't rise because of policy change - they rose because dedicated people advanced construction technology. Similarly, my team and I at BIOTONOMY has spent over a decade advancing technologies to regenerate cities. Our goal was to prove to the government and the public that our technology could transform urban wastewater into thriving Vertical Ecosystems. Now, we are honored to have been awarded by the Government of #Spain and to collaborate with the city of Malaga to integrate this technology into their policies. We aim to make #Malaga a regenerative city and an inspiration to cities around the world. Join the transformation by signing up for our waiting list and get invited to participate in our projects and training programs - See link in my bio #Biotonomy #greencities #regenerative

A good example of what investment in nature 🌏 can bring back to local economies and society: 💰 2% yearly steady return (and probably more) over 30 years with multiple non-financial but measurable benefits #naturebasedinfrastructure #biodiversity #livablecities Nature-Based Infrastructure Global Resource Centre