Category: resources
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Ecotopia Revisited
Another semi-pointless ranking of US cities names Portland greenest amongst the uber green… which begs the real question… why are there no North Dakota cities in these rankings ever? :: image via TreehuggerThe verdict: “If you live in Portland, you might want to think twice before complaining about the 40-plus inches of rain dumped on…
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Earthships to El Monte Sagrado
Back in the summer of 2005, I had the opportunity to travel for a number of days throughout New Mexico on a dual vacation/educational endeavor (what isn’t educational,I ask?) Whilst digging through images to upload to Flickr, I found a hidden trove photos from that trip as well as some notes for an article I…
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Post-Successional Landscapes
This week came to a close with another Park(ing) Day, a phenomenon created by San Fran group REBAR a few years back. It was evidently a success around the world via blog posts, and from the few examples I saw around Portland, it was evident that there was a lot of interest and support… It’s…
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Go Swift-ly into that Goodnight
A local Portland phenomenon that seems to grow exponentially each year is the pilgrimmage to Chapman Elementary School to witness the bedding down of the Swifts… and if it sounds dull, you will be sadly mistaken. A week ago, a small group met up for a birthday pre-celebration, including the finest in boxed wine and…
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Incenting Ecoroofs in Portland
Some previous posts Sustainable Stormwater and Grey to Green alluded to a large push for incentives to promote stormwater management projects in the City of Portland. For ecoroofs, the City is putting up the money to back up the talk, with a recent announcement.:: image via Bureau of Environmental Services Read the text below… excerpted…
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Reading List: The Vertical Garden
The time has come. The fine folks at publisher WW Norton were nice enough to send me a review copy of The Vertical Garden: From Nature to The City, by Patrick Blanc about a month ago, and I’ve finally finished it off – at least for the most part. Suffice it to say – and…
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Salmon-Safe SoWa
I’ve riffed a bit on SoWa previously on Landscape+Urbanism as filled with potential but needing some time… A recent report by Dyland Rivera from the Oregonian and picked up on Jetson Green as well, that the 35-acre area in the South Waterfront area in Portland has acheived Salmon Safe Certification, the first urban neighborhood to…
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This says it all…
Via arcady: playscapes: swissmiss: wireandtwine. Buy a T_shirt to Support the Children and Nature Network… or better yet… go outside and play 🙂 :: image via playscapes
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Missing Something?
A post via anArchitecture… made me think a bit about our fair profession and it’s place in the grand scheme of the world. Via the site and post ‘The Architectural Practice, Part I’ – this graphic: :: image via anArchitecture And the text: “Architectural practices are a project based businesses: Changing teams create unique, tailor-made…
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Sky Vegetables
Have you noticed sometimes how you have to spend a good amount of time squeezing the smallest bits of information out of some sites…? I’m not sure how this is. One example of this is the site for Sky Vegetables, and the companion blog site which seems nigh impossible to extract even the slightest bit…