Category: ecology
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Garden Ratings Made Easy
There has been a number of posts from landscape blogs in the past two days regarding the NY Times article related to the Sustainable Sites Initiative, the initiative to broaden the scope of site issues related to green building and design. It’s great that the initiative is getting ink, and definitely take the time to…
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2009: A Year in Preview
It’s funny reading the breakdowns of 2008, and the masses of predictions for 2009, (and a great one for 2010) specifically as the economy still reels due to wide-spread mismanagement, and there seems to be a non-stop (yet perhaps slower) parade of amazing, crazy, and just plain wrong projects – as witnessed in 2008. What…
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Again, Time to Get High
I’ll try to keep my fawning at bay as I post some new info from the High Line (although my obsession is well known)… but sometimes I just can’t resist. I recently plugged through some of the recent High Line Blog posts, and particularly appreciate the short lived ‘What will grow here?’ – which aimed…
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PHRWEE Urbanism
Coming from a childhood of tiptoeing through Air Force Bases around the world, I’m actually a big fan of random and overwrought acronyms (which I believe may have switched in my adult years to a new found love of clever portmanteau). In this regard, I am impressed with urb – and the fantastic and thought-provoking…