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- New York City’s Green Real Estate Blog - greenbuildingsNYC
Times Square is about to receive New York City’s first green-powered electronic billboard. Tokyo-based Ricoh Company, Ltd. will install a 47 by 126 foot sign on the Reuters Building (3 Times Square, at the northwestern corner of 42nd Street and 7th Avenue) that will draw power from 45 solar panels and 4 wind turbines. In […]
- Terra Eden Landscaping & Design, Inc. Announces Podcast On OASIS Rainwater Recycling System : published at CarolinaNewswire.com - Stay on top of the day’s business & technology news
Terra Eden Landscaping & Design, a Raleigh landscaping and design firm offering customized and cost-effective solutions to lawn hydration, has announced the release of a podcast on the OASIS Rainwater Recycling System. In this podcast, president Ross Embler explains how the OASIS Rainwater Recycling System works and the differences between OASIS and conventional rain barrels. […]
- Palm Springs Airport: Scrape landscape plan - MyDesert.com - The Desert Sun
For months, I have watched the airport representatives pressure the Architectural Advisory Committee, the Planning Commission and the City Council to give them a green light to start work on their new landscape design for the Palm Springs International Airport.
SOURCE: MyDesert.com – The Desert Sun – Palm Springs Airport: Scrape landscape plan
- Skate park plan draws praise and concerns - Ridgefield
Some highlights include 8,000 extra square feet for the Graham Dickinson Memorial skate park and 30 more parking spaces in the lot that, at present, lies south of it. Yanity Gym is in the bottom left-hand corner, and Prospect Ridge Road cuts across the top left-hand corner.Just one-third of the proposed plan to rejuvenate the […]
- Doghouses get a green roof with plants that cool the inside - Los Angeles Times
GREEN roofs are good. They clean the air, cool the house below, provide rest stops for birds and butterflies. If you work well with wood and want to try a green roof, why not start by building one for your dog?
Landscape architect Stephanie Rubin and her partner, sculptor Chris Isner, sell doghouses with rooftop gardens […]
- JDAVIS Architects announces new Associates.
Jeff Davis, president of JDavis Architects, PLLC (www.jdavisarchitects.com), a full-service architecture, landscape architecture and interior design firm, has announced Theodore B. Clippinger, Joleen Lockhart, Matthew Ansley and K. Daryl Carrington, LEED AP have been named associates at the firm.
SOURCE: PR-USA.net.
- Governor Schwarzenegger Announces July Appointments
Christine Anderson, 43, of Elk Grove, has been appointed to the Landscape Architect Technical Committee. She has served on the committee since 2003. Since 2007, Anderson has owned the Office of Christine A. Anderson, a firm specializing in redevelopment landscape design. Prior to that, she worked for the HLA Group as a senior associate landscape […]
- LandDesign and Audubon Lifestyles Join Forces for Sustainable Development
LandDesign Inc. and Audubon Lifestyles, LLC, today announce a new strategic partnership aimed at helping businesses and municipalities to implement green design and development and build more sustainable communities.
The partnership will offer comprehensive, practical and timely assistance for clients that are committed to environmentally responsible green design and sustainable development, and creating long-term quality of […]
- Overpass project progresses with landscaping, light adjustments
An old approach to landscaping the recently built North Ohio Street railroad overpass would have been green, conservative — nay, a little dull, even — and a heck of a lot more labor-intensive.
The traditional route meant planting the slopes of the overpass with water-sucking fescue grass and mowing once a week.
“The idea here is only […]
- Work on $2 million skate park to begin in the fall
Venice Beach already stakes claim to a famed workout area known as Muscle Beach, art walls for graffiti artists to display their crafty designs and an internationally acclaimed Boardwalk.
A beachfront skate park is now planned to join the group of distinctive attractions that are part of the Venice landscape.
Venice Beach has been a hot spot […]
