Community • October 12, 2026

‘Like Caring for a Pet’ – the App That Lets You Know if Your Neighborhood Tree Is Thirsty

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‘Like Caring for a Pet’ – the App That Lets You Know if Your Neighborhood Tree Is Thirsty

An open-source app has thousands of Berliners adopting and watering city trees as if they were their pets, helping keep the city green amid repeated summer heatwaves. Gieß den Kiez translates to "water your neighborhood," and offers users a map of the city with each one of the roughly 900,000 street trees of Berlin accessible as

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