Lighting · Projected milestone
Glowing street trees
14% by 2057 · including earlier years
The year is an editorial timing estimate. The percentage applies to occurrence by the stated deadline. These estimates are not calibrated odds.
Trees engineered to glow bright enough to walk by line parks and quiet streets, replacing some streetlights.
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Milestone stage: milestone (legacy definition)
Completion criteria: Legacy milestone: refine the observable threshold before resolving.
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Built on
- GM cropsRecorded · 1996requires
- Synthetic genomesRecorded · 2017enables
- Glowing petuniaRecorded · 2024enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.