Eddy's Good News: Plant Moss studies from down under and the world's most liveable cities

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5 Jul 2023, 12:02

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Wednesday 5th July 2023

Good news and bad news, depending on where you live, certainly fascinating news from all over the world as the annual index for the world’s most liveable city is released once more. 

How do they rank cities though…liveability is such a broad, complicated and multi-tiered concept and the Economist Intelligence Unit, who compile the hit (and miss) parade are fully aware and their methodology is pretty robust. They assess each city across six categories which all affect our lives and the lives of our families profoundly: stability, healthcare, culture, environment, education, and infrastructure. With all of these taken into account, here’s the Top Ten most liveable cities in the world today.

1. Vienna, Austria

2. Copenhagen, Denmark

3. Melbourne, Australia

4. Sydney, Australia

5. Vancouver, Canada

6. Zurich, Switzerland

7. Calgary, Canada

=. Geneva, Switzerland

9. Toronto, Canada

10. Osaka, Japan

=. Auckland, New Zealand

If you’re wondering how the UK did, the answer is not good. Edinburgh, Manchester and London were among the world’s biggest fallers in the charts and find themselves in the mid forties way behind places like Wellington, Stuttgart, Perth and Adelaide. It’s not a surprise when you think about all the rail strikes, doctors, nurses, ambulance strikes, all these things affect liveability.

Via: positive.news

Great news from down under and a new study into my favourite plant moss, will gain this amazing stuff more new fans.

There are at least 12,000 species of moss all over the world which makes the eight species I’m cultivating in my garden seem positively stingy! It is the oldest of all plants on planet earth and we must look to it to help save us from the awful mess we’ve made of the planet it has occupied a lot longer than we have.

Over 100 mosses were gathered from all over the world and studied by the University of New South Wales who were (quote) “gobsmacked” by what they found. We already knew that moss holds onto more CO2 than any other plant on land, but they found moss’s amazing regenerative power. It appears to die, but it doesn’t. They took moss which had been in a packet for 100 years, sprayed it with water and it came back to life miraculously. They found that mossy soil accounts for 6.43 billion metric tons of carbon stored and the soil is way healthier when moss is present. If you have moss on it, and mushrooms in it, the soil is at its peak health. Moss is magic stuff, and more of it in your life, on any level, is a good thing :) I recommend a moss nook in your garden for starters!

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org