Frying pans for children?

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Originally uploaded by Noisypond.

While on the LEAF Toronto tour, Todd (the guy in the green T-shirt to the left) took us to a school ground. “Black asphalt, red brick, and tar on the roof – if we wanted to bake our children, we probably wouldn’t have to do anything differently. We might as well just put them in a frying pan” is pretty much word-for-word what he said. He told us that schoolyards are so much hotter than most other places in cities that they are hotspots detectable from space (or so NASA has discovered).

Trees. They’re necessary for many reasons.