{"id":61473,"date":"2023-12-04T12:52:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T20:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=61473"},"modified":"2023-12-04T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T20:52:42","slug":"green-cities-a-matter-of-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=61473","title":{"rendered":"Green Cities: A Matter of Life and Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As humankind grows increasingly urban, planting trees and parks \u2014 far from merely beautifying cities \u2014 increasingly becomes a matter of life and death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As humankind grows increasingly urban, planting trees and parks \u2014 far from merely beautifying cities \u2014 increasingly becomes a matter of life and death.<\/p>\n

At a Friday, Dec. 1 Ethnic Media Services briefing, Los Angeles Forestry officials and urban greening experts discussed the city as a case study of the link between green space and human health, and explained how adding nearly a million years of life expectancy in LA County through urban greening could serve as a model for other cities.<\/p>\n

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The more parks and trees there are in a given neighborhood, the higher the area\u2019s life expectancy, said Michael Jerrett, referring to a July 2023\u00a0UCLA study<\/a>\u00a0he co-authored, which found that bringing green space in LA County to median levels could add up to 908,800 years of collective life expectancy to residents in under-resourced communities.<\/p>\n

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