GILA words of the week: Emotional farming, Just green enough and environmental gentrification

A few officials in India are calling their new horticultural therapy initiative "emotional farming". A clever term which could stick elsewhere.

Soon after the massively successful first part of the High Line opened there were a few folks who stated, quite accurately, that there were some drawbacks to its popularity. People love the High Line, they want their business and homes near it and so land prices go up and gentrification displaced long term residents. There's a new paper out which advocates greening neighborhoods, but "just enough" to benefit the community, but not enough to displace them. And they point to one example in New York were this has already happened. This is a delicate balancing act indeed!