Help Please! Advice About My Urban Bird Feeder
Switching gears here for a sec — it being Friday and all — I really need advice about getting birds to come to my window-mounted bird feeder.
Switching gears here for a sec — it being Friday and all — I really need advice about getting birds to come to my window-mounted bird feeder.
By Graham Ray It turns out that getting a blog entry done by me in time to kick off the year is about as likely as getting our family holiday card out in time for, well, the holidays! Something about twin three year olds and the demands of work just keep getting in the way…. More
One of the Silva Cell system’s most powerful selling points from a practical perspective is its modularity. The 2’ x 4’ x 1.5’ cell can be oriented to fit in almost any space, and our details provide guidance for all kinds of standard and non-standard site elements. As a result, the Silva Cell gets used on… More
Root Barrier and irrigation is currently being put in at our Aurora Avenue Silva Cell installation in Shoreline, WA by Out West Landscape. (And later, roasted cauliflower soup.)
Augusta, Georgia (beardenb) It’s raining and about 53 degrees Fahrenheit in San Francisco. Depending on where you are that may sound good or bad. But either way, we’re barely at winter’s halfway mark, and I don’t know about you, but Cheerful Things seem in order right about now. Today, rather than bellyaching over sad, stunted,… More
It’s not exactly news that urban detritus isn’t good for the environment, and a recent BuildingGreen.com newsbrief reviews another recent study demonstrating that urban runoff is bad for steam biodiversity.
At the end of last month, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the launch of the Better Market Street Project. Market Street, one of San Francisco’s largest thoroughfares, is at once both a main artery of the city and one of its biggest messes. Congested traffic and mass transit, confusing pedestrian and bike crossings, pathetic (PATHETIC) street trees… More
I lifted these hypothetical Before/After images of the Embankment and Parliament Square in London from the Trees and Design Action Group, a group of citizens, professionals and public and private businesses in the United Kingdom whose mission is to raise awareness of the importance of urban forests.