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A Tree Grows in Boston
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11/3/2023
Boston University professor Lucy Hutyra is one scientist trying to figure out how cities can use trees to mitigate climate change while cutting their carbon emissions.
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I see a future where science and policy work together,
00:05
where scientists get out of the lab,
00:08
scientists talk to people, talk to communities,
00:11
and find out where real needs are,
00:14
and work on technical engineering, scientific solutions,
00:19
to help people today and tomorrow.
00:23
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00:26
If you have one tree of the same size in the city
00:38
versus out of the city, it's growing faster.
00:41
So it's taking up more carbon dioxide.
00:45
In the process of photosynthesis,
00:46
that carbon is making it grow into wood.
00:49
That tree is also evaporating water,
00:51
which is mitigating the heat island.
00:53
Those trees taking up carbon is great,
00:57
and we see it in our measurements in the air.
00:59
In the urban case, it had been assumed
01:09
that a tree growing in the city was struggling.
01:13
It's a terrible place to grow, right?
01:15
It's full of air pollution, it has no space,
01:17
all of these challenging natural environment.
01:20
But what we observed when we measured the trees
01:24
is that they were thriving in many cases,
01:27
despite all the challenges.
01:29
If you're a tree growing in the city,
01:32
you are not crammed with other trees
01:34
that are competing for resources.
01:36
You may be crammed into a little box that you're growing in
01:39
that's cut into a sidewalk,
01:41
but you're not competing with other plants for light.
01:44
And so the form that the entire tree takes can be different.
01:48
And more light, which is a fundamental limit
01:51
on photosynthesis and productivity,
01:53
means that trees will grow faster.
01:56
Conceptually, what we were trying to do with VADAP,
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as well as many of the things we've done in the years since,
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is try to not focus on blanket solutions.
02:22
We're talking about cities and heat.
02:40
We know that we need things like trees,
02:43
we need cool roofs,
02:44
we also need some amount of air conditioning in the mix.
02:47
We know what a lot of those will look like,
02:50
but what we don't know
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is what the optimum implementation strategy looks like.
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And that's what, in the last few years,
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I've really been focusing on,
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is thinking about what and where,
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and will things work the same way in different places?
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