#TNOCessay When Cities Fragment Care: Homeless youth, mental health, substance use, and the spaces between systems by Manasi Kumar and Deborah Padgett Read and join the conversation: bit.ly/3NdBNIg #Cities #UrbanJustice

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#TNOCessay Learning Climate Lessons from My 5-Year-Old — Lindsay Campbell (New York City) What can a five-year-old teach us about climate change? Sometimes the most meaningful climate lessons begin with a child’s question. Read the essay: www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/03...

#TNOCessay Urban Mini-forests Can Reinvent How Cities Grow, Learn, and Respond to Climate Stress Rafael Ribeiro & Sheila Ceccon — São Paulo What if climate resilience started with tiny forests in schoolyards and vacant lots? www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/02... #UrbanNature #MiniForests #NbS

#TNOCEssay From living in nature → to living as nature. A call to step outside, learn with First Nations, and create new urban rituals of care for the more-than-human city. 🌱 Read: www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/02... #UrbanBiodiversity #MoreThanHumanCities

From alleyway games to play among ruins, this powerful essay reflects on childhood, memory, and the right to safe public space in a city rebuilding itself. When children can play freely again, a city begins to heal. Read more: bit.ly/4aN5S98 #TNOCessay #ChildFriendlyCities #PublicSpace #Damascus

🌿 We’re running a short global survey listening to how civil society organisations work with nature in their communities. 4–12 min • anonymous • multilingual Part of the EU project #NetworkNature. Please take part & share 💚 @biodiversa.eu @iclei.org 👉 thenatureofcities.typeform.com/to/iM8zPyV7

🐝✨ A #NBSComic has just landed! At Sweet-Spot, flower strips are blooming and pollinators buzzing. Reports say the ecosystem is thriving… but is it really? To Bee or Not to Bee explores the promise — and pitfalls — of NbS like flower strips. 📖 nbscomics.com/2026/02/17/t... #NetworkNature

You can still participate in this survey! Interesting questions about how we connect with nature and the challenges we face.

🌍 Reminder: Global Survey on Citizen Action for Nature The last major survey on nature-based solutions was in 2015 — and only in Europe. This new global survey updates the picture with today’s realities and community voices worldwide. 🗺️ Add your voice by Jan 15 👉 buff.ly/NLzQTxG

🌿🐾 What if wildlife were stakeholders in urban planning? A new #TNOCroundtable explores cities as shared habitats — and what changes when we design with, not just around, nature. Join the conversation: 🔗 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/02... #UrbanNature #MoreThanHumanCities #Biodiversity

#TNOCessay What if cemeteries could also support biodiversity and community wellbeing? May East explores how burial grounds are being reimagined as living urban commons. 👉 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/02... Have you visited a place like this?

🚲 Sparking #ActiveMobility in the Philippines! In Quezon City and Pasig City, the IKI-funded #SPARKproject shows how short-term street pilots can boost walking and cycling, cut emissions, and build strong community ownership. @iki-germany.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaeh...

If you care about nature in urban areas, you'll want to read this new roundtable at @tnoc.bsky.social on how we can "give wildlife a place as stakeholders in decisions about urban planning", which has essays from 22 contributors (incl me) from 18 cities around the world! Come join the conversation.

🌱 Open Call | We support & invite you to share your story At TNOC, we support and invite initiatives caring for parks, community gardens, riverbanks & green corridors to join the What’s That Green? Governance Lab. 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Feb 👉 whatisthatgreen.com/open-call-wh...

Nature lover? Community builder? Educator, activist, neighbour, volunteer? Curious how nature can help solve real problems? ✨ This survey is for you. Your voice helps shape a Citizen Action Roadmap for Nature 👉 thenatureofcities.typeform.com/to/iM8zPyV7 Tag someone who should join @iclei.org

🌍 We’re heading to #UrbanFuture 2026 in Ljubljana! Bold ideas, real action, better cities. Check out the programme 👉 urban-future.org/event/uf26-l... We’ll be there — join us! 🚀 #UF26 #CityChangers #BetterCities

New #TNOCessay Laura Shillington asks: what happens when students trust AI more than their own senses? A sharp, honest reflection on education, GenAI, curiosity & being human in a techno-social-natural world. 🌱📱 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/01...

How Artists Help to Transform Natural Resources Management: Building a Theory of Change A coral essay by 7 voices across Glasgow, New York & Amsterdam. Not about linear solutions — but trust, time, imagination, and working with complexity. Read on The Nature of Cities buff.ly/Ja6QYKo #TNOCessay

Over the past weeks, people from many different countries, regions, and community contexts worldwide have already shared their experiences, challenges, and ideas for working with nature. 👉 Add your voice and help strengthen a truly global roadmap: buff.ly/dwQLfcv

The Nature of Cities is part of the programme at Urban Future 2026, joining a global community of CityChangers to inspire, challenge & connect. 📍 Ljubljana | 24–27 March 2026 👉 Join the movement & register: buff.ly/7gfLLSl #PeopleMakeCities #UrbanFuture #UF26 #TheNatureOfCities #CityChangers

#TNOCEssay Carly Ziter reflects on returning to her hometown of Windsor and discovering how cities, even those shaped by industrial mythologies, can begin to repair, resist, and re-imagine their relationship with nature. 👉 Read the full essay and join the conversation: buff.ly/zaExP5D

Perhaps “Why not here” is the question we should all be asking as we re-imagine urban nature in the places we love. New essay from me in @tnoc.bsky.social, reflecting on a recent visit home, and the beauty and potential of an often-overlooked city. www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/01...

5–10 Oct 2026 | Cali, Colombia 🇨🇴 The The Nature of Cities Festival arrives in Latin America for the first time. 🌿 Theme: TRUEQUE — exchange of knowledge, creativity, trust & care for cities that care for life. 🤝 Sponsors & collaborators welcome Join us 👉 tnoc-festival.com/wp/#HELP

🌿 We’re running a short global survey listening to how civil society organisations work with nature in their communities. 4–12 min • anonymous • multilingual Part of the EU project #NetworkNature. Please take part & share 💚 @biodiversa.eu @iclei.org 👉 thenatureofcities.typeform.com/to/iM8zPyV7

As TNOC enters its 15th year, we’re grateful for this global community that keeps asking good questions, holding complexity, and pushing boundaries with care and hope. 🌱 👉 Revisit the highlights from TNOC 2025: 🔗 www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2026/01...

✨ What does it mean to be a good ancestor? 44 voices come together in this #TNOCRoundtable by The Nature of Cities to reflect on a question that connects us all Start the year with this reading Join the conversation & share what resonated Tag someone who should read it 🔗https://bit.ly/4bjKGJK

#TheNatureOfGraffiti Cheetah — Cape Town, South Africa Submitted by: Pippin Anderson A cheetah painted on a city wall — fast, alert, and impossible to ignore. 🔗 buff.ly/y369MNh

#TheNatureOfGraffiti When Nature and Art Merge — Bangalore, India 🖋 by David Maddox Photographed in Cubbon Park, one of Bangalore’s largest green lungs and historic public spaces. 🔗 buff.ly/O6PLLfv

TNOC brings together artists, scientists, practitioners & community leaders worldwide to make cities better for nature and all people. Your donation supports: • Free essays, roundtables & exhibitions • TNOC Festival • Open, accessible urban knowledge Support our work.https://buff.ly/kqTfIeA

#TheNatureOfGraffiti Classical Flower — Athens, Greece 🖋 Submitted by Valerie Gwinner There are many examples of graffiti and street art around the world that draw on images and ideas from nature. Have you seen any? 📸 Upload yours to the gallery. buff.ly/uL8BfGO

This is an invitation to humility and courage at once: to act without guarantees, to plant trees whose shade we may never sit under, to repair what we can, to refuse what harms, to build lasting relationships. buff.ly/5fGXsBA

🌍 In October 2026, The Nature of Cities Festival invites the world to Cali, Colombia 🇨🇴 📅 5–10 Oct 2026 A global gathering rooted in exchange, care & reciprocity. Built collectively — in the spirit of TRUEQUE. 🌱 Partner with us 💬 Book a call & explore collaboration 👉 buff.ly/VQJ7y2l #TNOCFestival

🌍 Reminder: Global Survey on Citizen Action for Nature The last major survey on nature-based solutions was in 2015 — and only in Europe. This new global survey updates the picture with today’s realities and community voices worldwide. 🗺️ Add your voice by Jan 15 👉 buff.ly/NLzQTxG

What if restoring nature in cities means more than parks and resilience plans? What if it means decolonizing how we think about land, nature, and power? This #tnocessay traces NY colonial roots to ask a bigger question—how can cities learn again to live with nature, not against it? buff.ly/c1Cipi7

TNOC Festival 2026 is here — and for the first time, it comes to Latin America. 🌎 Cali, Colombia | 5–10 October 2026 Join us for a series of meaningful encounters designed to spark trust, imagination, and collaboration. 👉 Explore the Festival: www.tnoc-festival.com

Urban nature needs all of us. Share your story of collaborative stewardship through the Open Call: Who takes care of the urban green? Selected projects will join a global community, appear on a stewardship map, and may be considered for TNOC’s NbS exhibition under #NetworkNature buff.ly/EWqAjnE

Dec 10 Webinar: Urban Biodiversity Management Hosted by @the_IDB Cities Network. TNatureOfCities will share the TNOC Festival experience — where science, art & community shape more biodiverse, just urban futures. Next edition: Cali 2026. Join us 🗓 Dec 10 • 10–11:30am EST 🔗 buff.ly/IdO4E4A

#TNOCEssay Collserola once framed Barcelona — now it’s a “green island” surrounded by the metropolis. A global paradox emerges: cities depend on forests, yet urban growth threatens them. From California to Nairobi, the challenges are shared. 🌱 Read more: buff.ly/EmybCSr

Global survey: Your perspective can directly shape the Roadmap for Citizen Action on #NbS — a guide that policymakers will use to understand what communities need to restore and protect nature. Take the survey before 15 January. ➡️ thenatureofcities.typeform.com/to/iM8zPyV7

#TNOCEssay What if cities stopped seeing green spaces as a burden and started seeing them as an invitation to nurture life? Read the full essay 👉 buff.ly/YqwKZ1P #urbanecology #greeninfrastructure #cities #biodiversity #stewardship

#throwback #TNOCEssay Revisiting “The Elephant and the Ant” by María Aragão As cities continue to grow, how can seeing the urban environment as an ecosystem — where balance matters — help us build more sustainable futures? Dive into this TNOCEssay and join the discussion! 👉 buff.ly/hf29MWk

Global Survey on Citizen Action & Nature The people who shape the future of nature aren’t only politicians, they’re citizens, neighbours, activists, educators, volunteers… you. This is your chance to tell policymakers what your community really needs. ake the survey before Jan 15: buff.ly/5EGFVUC

#TNOCEssay What happens when public servants walk rivers, dunes, and imagine their city in 2035? Two NbS workshops in Curitiba & Florianópolis show how imagination + lived experience can spark real urban transformation. How would YOU reimagine your city? 🔗 buff.ly/urnqtLL #NbS #UrbanResilience

#TheNatureOfGraffiti Walking through the Mariposa neighborhood above Bogotá, at 9000 feet, one might also get to see the transformation of a butterfly. Painted along a walkway, one can see the metamorphosis of a butterfly through its lifecycle, adding vibrancy to the city. buff.ly/1s4M0ig

#TNOCEssay What happens when you ask people around the world to photograph the outdoor places that keep them healthy? Read the essay and join the conversation: buff.ly/SEdE9TS #UrbanNature #HealthyCities #Photovoice #NatureForHealth #TNOC

#TNOCROUNDTABLERevisit Some questions don’t age — they get more urgent. Back in May 2017, TNOC asked: To whom does a city’s nature belong? Is it a commons, a public good… and who decides? 👉 Revisit the conversation: buff.ly/xqH9tuw

#TNOCRoundtable Murals are everywhere now— on schoolyards and salt boxes, buses and armories, waterfronts and wildlife refuges. 👉 How can murals be catalysts for climate and community action? Read the full roundtable and join the conversation: buff.ly/XXJIUct #TheNatureOfCities #Murals

Science2Story 🌿📚 Can comics help mainstream biodiversity, NbS, and climate science? At NBS Comics, we say yes. With @biodiversa.eu, we turned 21 research projects into 3 engaging, science-based stories—each with QR codes linking to the research behind the plot. Explore the comics 👉 buff.ly/kpyq57L

What Remains? #TNOCEssay Climate grief becomes memory and monument in Ghost Ships and Mourning Doves, the haunting exhibition by Robin Lasser and Sydney Brown at Chung 24 Gallery. What do we carry forward as the planet changes? Read on The Nature of Cities. buff.ly/oAlmJFU