{"id":24283,"date":"2019-01-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/trees-frontline-bulwark-in-combatting-air-pollution\/"},"modified":"2021-10-15T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T08:29:49","slug":"trees-frontline-bulwark-in-combatting-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/gb\/trees-frontline-bulwark-in-combatting-air-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees: &#8220;Frontline&#8221; Bulwark in Combatting Air Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What single thing can you incorporate into a city which increases in value every year it exists?<\/p>\n<p>What item will remind you of seasons, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenblue.com\/maximising-development-through-sustainable-urban-design\/\">enhance property value<\/a>, provide shade, urban cooling and stormwater attenuation whilst simultaneously boosting retail sales, improve social cohesion and reduce crime?\u00a0 Well as it happens, this same entity &#8211; (<strong>it can only be a living and healthy urban tree<\/strong>) is also proving its worth in countless street locations as the first line of defence <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>against air pollution.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9266\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24284 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kidbrooke-Greenwich-Berkley-Homes-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kidbrooke-Greenwich-Berkley-Homes-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kidbrooke-Greenwich-Berkley-Homes-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kidbrooke-Greenwich-Berkley-Homes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kidbrooke-Greenwich-Berkley-Homes-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kidbrooke-Greenwich-Berkley-Homes-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Kidbrooke-Greenwich-Berkley-Homes.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley Homes, ensuring GI is installed at their Kidbrooke development<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trees are well able to clean the air and absorb harmful airborne particles and gaseous pollutants.\u00a0 This includes toxins such as nitrogen oxides, ammonia and sulphur dioxide which are absorbed through their leaves, bark and roots. This improves the air quality in the microclimate around the trees and contributes to a healthier and cleaner environment for everyone.\u00a0 Trees also soak up the harmful carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In one year, an acre of mature trees absorbs the same volume of carbon monoxide as produced from a 226,000 mile car journey!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside from cleaning the air for us, trees supply us with fresh oxygen to breathe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8313\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24463 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Northwood-Hills-1024x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Northwood-Hills-1024x550.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Northwood-Hills-600x322.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Northwood-Hills-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Northwood-Hills-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Northwood-Hills-1200x645.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Northwood-Hills.jpg 1297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northwood Hills Regen is helping to omit Air Pollution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Evidence also demonstrates that trees around a\u00a0building are able to reduce air conditioning costs in hot weather &#8211; a feat they perform via their inherent ability to cool the surrounding air through shade and evapotranspiration. Thus, potential pollution at the energy source is reduced.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8045\" style=\"width: 751px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24502 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sun-Street-Braeem-Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sun-Street-Braeem-Award.jpg 751w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sun-Street-Braeem-Award-600x558.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sun-Street-Braeem-Award-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BREEAM Award winning property at Sun Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition, the small particulates which are a major cause for concern can be filtered out of the air, becoming trapped on the leaves and branches &#8211; truly a living filter. <strong>Siting of these trees is, of course, important<\/strong>, as a continuous dense canopy above a busy road could prevent adequate air circulation to disperse airborne pollutants, but this can be simply overcome by intelligent siting of trees when planting, giving due consideration to species form and growth potential.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9267\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31080 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Aylesbury-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Aylesbury-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Aylesbury-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Aylesbury-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Aylesbury-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Aylesbury-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/greenblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Aylesbury.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Considered planting at Aylesbury Transport Hub<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The catch, of course, is that our modern city tends to be engineered around demands of the built infrastructure and intensive transport with multiple utilities below ground &#8211; which makes finding enough uncompacted healthy soil for trees to grow a challenge.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This is our responsibility &#8211; to invest in appropriately engineered, large volume tree planting pits to ensure long term healthy trees in towns and cities &#8211; a near silent safeguard for the benefit of future generations.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What single thing can you incorporate into a city which increases in value every year it exists? What item will remind you of seasons, enhance property value, provide shade, urban cooling and stormwater attenuation whilst simultaneously boosting retail sales, improve social cohesion and reduce crime?\u00a0 Well as it happens, this same entity &#8211; (it can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3409,"featured_media":24285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[362,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-urban-trees-arboriculture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trees: &quot;Frontline&quot; Bulwark in Combatting Air Pollution - GreenBlue Urban<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/gb\/trees-frontline-bulwark-in-combatting-air-pollution\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trees: &quot;Frontline&quot; Bulwark in Combatting Air Pollution - GreenBlue Urban\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What single thing can you incorporate into a city which increases in value every year it exists? 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