Sitting under the wide canopy of a tree can cool you off on a hot summer day and even lower home-energy costs. If your landscape is treeless, the sooner a new tree grows a shady canopy, the better. A ...

Nick Lodato wanted to do something big to celebrate the100th anniversary of Emerson Elementary School, where he is the principal. As a lover of nature, he decided there could be no better way than to ...

Believe the experts when they tell you gardening is all about the light. Plant sun-lovers where they can bask in hours of direct rays. But put the shade needy in our hot sun, and it’s burn, baby, burn ...

If a child’s health and well-being can be improved with just a couple of trees, imagine what a whole school campus and a neighborhood with extra canopy coverage could do. Heather McMillen of the ...

In the desert metropolis of Dubai, where the summer is one long heat wave, shade is precious as people seek refuge from the sun’s scorching rays. Enter Italian architect and designer Carlo Ratti’s ...