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City Parks: Great Places to Visit and Good for the Environment

by Bill Chameides and Erica Rowell | Oct 09, 2008
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Summer's over, but city parks are still great places to visit. Plus, they provide environmental benefits, such as cutting pollution.

 

Dr. Bill Chameides talks parks in our latest Grok video.

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Posted by mrabb at Oct 21, 2008 09:05 AM
You encourage people who live in places that don't have great city parks to work to getparks, which is great. Not everyone is going to be able to have Central Park, but even much smaller parks can confer some of the same benefits. For a look at the other end of the spectrum I recently saw this posting on "pocket parks".
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/[…]/pocket_parks_rejuvenate_cities.html

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