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Discover news, insights, field notes, our pocket forests, and beyond

Future Proofing Our Cities

Spot the difference?

Are You Plant Blind?

Why we need Urban Biodiversity

Healing Manhattan: Inspiring Community Through NYC’s First Pocket Forest

Reimagining Education: 62 Forests, 62 Schools, One Community-Led Vision

Cultivating Connections: Inspiring Belgian Citizens to Reconnect with Nature

Tree Equity: Rehabilitating São Paulo’s Atlantic Forests and Communities

Reconnecting Roots: Restoring Cape Town’s Diverse Heritage Through Forests

Film Premiere: Healing Forest

Trees Are Ecosystems

Green walls stop floodings

Pocket forests can power up to 30 lives

Concrete Jungle to Sponge City

200-year-old forest in 20 years

In Search of Light by David Olayide

Forest Succession: Nature's Path to Resilience

5 Steps to Create a Pocket Forest

The Urban Time Warp

The Urban Green Space Gap

The Environmental Impact of Suburban Sprawl by Peter Essick

Where Can You Plant a Pocket Forest?

What Are Green Deserts?

SUGi Pocket Forests – Cape Town

Yvy-Mara Ey (Tierra Sin Mal / Land Without Evil) by Mauricio Holc

2024 SUGi x NAVA Photography Contest – Winners

What Are Disaster Proofing Forests?

What Are Pollinator Pathways?

Can Miyawaki Forests Store More Carbon?

The Miyawaki Method for Creating Forests

London Heat Map

What Is Urban Acupuncture?

New York City Gets a Pocket Forest

What Is Companion Planting?

2024 SUGi Fellowship | Winners

Why We Build Biodiversity for Our Pocket Forests to Thrive

Case Study: Teufelsberg | Berlin, Germany

New York Native Trees

Why Do Cities Need to Be More Biodiverse?

Concrete Outweighs the Carbon Mass of Every Tree, Bush, and Shrub on this Planet

Are Plants Conscious?

SUGi Pockets Forests for Nature Deficit Disorder

Connecting with Nature

An Oasis for Laughter

SUGi Tree Guide: Tree Bark

Don't Look Up!

Urban Trees Grow Faster

Why Are Coastal Forests So Important?

Why Do We Need Plant Diversity?

Nippon Steel Forest: Transforming Industrial Wastelands

The Meiji Jingu Shrine

The Metro Forest Bangkok, Thailand

SUGi Pocket Forest: Urban Heat Profile

Winners: SUGi x NAVA Photography Contest - 2023

Abu Dhabi's Forgotten Planting Project

SUGi Tree Guide: Tree Shapes

Urban Acupuncture in London

Pocket Forests Cool Cities

Building Immunity Through Biodiversity

Pocket Forests Prevent Floods

Diverse Forests Absorb More CO2

What Is the Miyawaki Method?

The Women of SUGi

Why We Create Urban Forests

Why We Plant Densely

The Chipko Movement

Trees Can Suffer From Loneliness

The Tree of Life

Trees for Bees

SUGi Impact Report — 2022

Forest Gardens of North America

Atlas Mountains Forest

Hunter Gatherer Ancestors of Mesolithic Europe

The Ziarat Juniper Forest

Why Do We Need Biodiverse Forest Ecosystems to Combat Climate Change?

Winners: SUGi x NAVA Photography Contest 2022

The Atlantic Hazelwoods

Maya Forest Gardens

Church Forest, Ethiopia

Where Can You Plant a Miyawaki Forest?

Why Do Urban Trees Grow Faster?

Ghaf Trees

What Is Forest Transpiration?

Cool Caterpillars

Why Do Diverse Forests Store More Carbon?

SUGi Fellowship 2022 — Finalist

Temperate Rainforest

Urban Tree Cover

Oak Trees — The Kings of Biodiversity

Meet the Judges — SUGi X NAVA Photography contest

What Makes Miyawaki Forests Unique?

What Is an Ecosystem?

What Is 'Holon'?

Why Is Soil Preparation Important in the Miyawaki Method?

SUGi x NAVA Photography Contest

The Fanal Forest

Spring Season Has Sprung

What Is Biodiversity?

SUGi Fellowship 2022

What Is Soil Compaction?

Celebrating the Women of SUGi

Children Need Nature to Thrive

Forests Are Social

The Sugi Tree ( 杉 )

Why Do We Need Forest Cover?

Why We Use the Miyawaki Method

Why Do We Need Forest Diversity?

Earthworms Close Up

SUGi Impact Report — 2021

SUGi at COP26 - Taking Direct Action

A New Type of Forestry: Managing Forests as Communities?

Weeds or Pioneering Plants?

Urban Forests Can Help Cities Adapt to the Impacts of Climate Change

The Rare Species Advantage
