"Cooling our cities and communities is more important than ever," writes Pamela Conrad, ASLA, founder of Climate Positive Design and ASLAs inaugural Biodiversity and Climate Action Fellow. "As landscape architects, we constantly hear of the challenges associated with planting enough trees, but some cities have figured out ways to rise above while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions." Read more in ASLA's THE DIRT: https://bit.ly/3WMBKoGImage Credit: 2017-2037 Master Plan for Barcelonas Trees: Trees for Life provides recommendations for increasing tree canopy shade. / Area dEcologia Urbana, Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2017. Attribution-ShareAlike (by) License; The cool transformation of Paris Place de Catalunya includes removing planting and adding vegetation / Guillaume Bontemps, Ville de Paris; Becoming Xerophile demonstration garden at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial in the United Arab Emirates / Cooking Sections, Becoming Xerophile, 2019-2023. Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2019; The Fog Water Farm Park and Gardens in Peru addresses water scarcity by collecting fog. / SQWATER Fog Collection Project, Traction Design