# Trees as Infrastructure

> Revaluing nature as urban infrastructure

Source: https://darkmatterlabs.org/initiatives/treesai  
Team: Chloe Treger, Sofia Valentini, Eunji Kang, Gurden Batra, Arianna Smaron, Carlotta Conte-Billant  
Partners: Lucidminds, Politics for Tomorrow  
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/  
Attribution: Dark Matter Labs, https://darkmatterlabs.org

Trees As Infrastructure (TreesAI) is establishing nature as a critical part of urban infrastructure, alongside bridges, roads and rail, enabling investment, profitability and sustainability. Urban forests regulate a number of ecosystem processes (e.g. water and air quality) and provide tangible and intangible benefits vital for living environments. Trees produce goods such as food and timber; and are deeply connected to our societies and cultures functioning as powerful symbols. TreesAI accounts and values a number of tangible benefits—relating to carbon, water, health, energy, biodiversity and the economy—while acknowledging social and cultural co-benefits.

## Links

- [Website](https://treesasinfrastructure.com/)
- [Blog Series](https://provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/trees-as-infrastructure-1dd94e1cfedf)