{"id":97460,"date":"2019-10-15T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T23:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-city-bench-absorbs-more-air-pollution-than-a-grove-of-trees"},"modified":"2019-10-15T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T23:02:16","slug":"this-city-bench-absorbs-more-air-pollution-than-a-grove-of-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-city-bench-absorbs-more-air-pollution-than-a-grove-of-trees","title":{"rendered":"This City Bench Absorbs More Air Pollution Than A Grove Of Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-city-bench-absorbs-more-air-pollution-than-a-grove-of-trees.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>London is the latest city to gain a city bench with the ability to absorb as much pollution as a small forest. The vertical garden, which doubles as a bench, is <a href=\"https:\/\/greencitysolutions.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/greencitysolutions.de\/en\/\">Green City Solutions<\/a>\u2019 CityTree. Using a vertical installation of moss, the bench can absorb as much pollution as 275 trees in 1 percent of the space.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/news\/releases\/2014\/air-pollution\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/news\/releases\/2014\/air-pollution\/en\/\">World Health Organization estimates<\/a> that 7 million premature deaths occur each year from air pollution, making it one of the largest environmental health risks in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London is the latest city to gain a city bench with the ability to absorb as much pollution as a small forest. The vertical garden, which doubles as a bench, is Green City Solutions\u2019 CityTree. Using a vertical installation of moss, the bench can absorb as much pollution as 275 trees in 1 percent of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}