Recently, we were talking about the depave movement that had started in Portland almost two decades ago. Well, once you have taken out the asphalt of a piece of urban ground, you could plant a tiny forest in it. Other than really really small woods, a tiny forest refers to a dense fast-growing native woodland, based on an established forest management method developed in the 1970s by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki to help restore ecosystems.

Summer is here – one wants (and needs) a refreshing swim. I don’t know if you have ever heard of this classification: there are the sea people, and then the swimming-pool people. The firsts bath in a natural surrounding, while the second ones get a dose of chlorine if they want to swim. Right? In fact, you could also ‘go natural’ in a swimming pool. Particularly, in a sort of ecological bathing space also called a natural pool.

When I started to wear barefoot shoes a few years back, I disliked feeling the hard asphalt under my feet. In addition, my doctor beware me about how barefoot-like walking on pavement was damaging to the spine’s health. My urban itineraries have turned since into a sort of unaware jumping circuit from a grass and soil island to another – if you see me, now you know why.