Green Thinking Review
Edition 82
Nature-Based Solutions
Good Design Works Like Nature
An invitation to treat trees, soils, wetlands, waterways and other living systems as essential infrastructure—not decoration added after the important decisions are made.
Edition cover · web-ready PDF availableWhy this edition matters
A question with consequences.
African cities are confronting heat, flooding, habitat loss and infrastructure pressure at the same time. Treating ecological systems as working infrastructure offers a practical path to resilience that engineered systems alone cannot provide.
Inside GTR 82
A complete conversation, in one focused edition.
Seven nature-based systems for resilient places
Five actions for designing with living systems
The intelligence of living systems
2040: When the city worked like nature
Cover story
When Nature Becomes Infrastructure
Nature Never Sleeps.
Ideas become useful when they meet a real place, a real challenge and the people shaping what comes next.
GTR reflection · Shareable thought
“Good design works like nature when it supports life, strengthens connections and allows places to adapt, recover and flourish.”— Green Thinking Review, Edition 82
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Reference this edition.
Green Thinking Review. “Nature-Based Solutions: Good Design Works Like Nature.” GTR 82, 14 August 2026. https://www.greenthinking.sheltagroup.com/issues/nature-based-solutions
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