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Curitiba’s green initiatives originated in the 1960s with its mayor, Jaime Lerner, who famously said, “This city is not for cars,” well before smart growth principles were adopted in the more affluent countries of North...

As the eyes of the world have turned to Curitiba, Brazil with the opening of the World Cup last week, there is another story that lies in the background of the country’s eighth largest metropolis...

Recently, 12-year-old Olivia Peters and her mother were out for a walk through a small forest in their hometown of Surrey, British Columbia when they discovered many of the trees there, some nearly a century old, had been...