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The Japanese method of creating forests comes to Mexico
The municipality, adjacent to Mexico City and surrounded by concrete, suffers from the heat island effect. The community came to the rescue with this accelerated tree planting method
In English, the Japanese concept satoyama translates as “village” and “mountain.” These are rural environments where communities manage forests and farmland based on a sustainable system, harnessing their resources without harming them, in a kind of sacred pact between humans and nature for living in harmony. After World War II, Japan poured all its efforts into an ambitious economic recovery plan, with one consequence: urbanization and industrial growth broke that pact with nature throughout the country, including the satoyama. And now it has arrived in Nezahualcóyotl, a municipality in the eastern part of the State of Mexico and, in practice, a suburb of the sprawling Mexican capital, which on May 6 welcomed volunteers and professionals to its Technological University to bring this new forest to life on a 600-square-meter unused lot.
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