Tree Humor, Har Har
It’s simple! A collection of some of my favorite New Yorker cartoons featuring trees.
It’s simple! A collection of some of my favorite New Yorker cartoons featuring trees.
Snowfall seems to have happened very late all across the country this winter, but now that it’s here, most people are trying to find ways to get rid of it. But salt, while effective for deicing roads and streets, can have extremely detrimental effects on trees, causing things such as necrosis, burned tips, or failure… More
This video installation, “Years,” from artist Bartholomäus Traubeck, uses an optical… something… to “read” a thin cross section of a tree (the “record”) and translate it in to piano music.
The specifications for most construction project are filled with seemingly endless phrases of precision such as “not less than 100 percent maximum density,” “no variation greater then ¼,” “shall be at least .005 in thickness,” “minimum strength of 3,000 psi,” etc. Why is this? Buildings, bridges, roadways, utilities, and the like are all intended to… More
Last August I went to one of Jim Urban’s Up By Roots seminars in Davis, CA, and it was one of the best days I’ve spent learning more about trees, soil biology, and urban forestry. Jim is back on the road again this year, and on March 21st he’ll be presenting the Up By Roots… More
Meet Almond the cat, demonstrating both the independent feline spirit and the importance of tending to the trees and/or cats in front of your house.
Through my work with DeepRoot, I’ve come to love and appreciate trees – especially urban trees – in a way that I never anticipated, so much so that I recently became a certified arborist. But my greatest love, since I was very little, was for animals. There is an intersection between these two interests, of… More
Finding influential tree people in any one industry or organisation can be difficult. Finding influential tree people in various disciplines to get around a table at the same time can be like trying to find the Loch Ness Monster or a Sasquatch: we hear about these rare things, but finding them is elusive. Since its… More
This post is now out of date! Please see the updated post here. In the day-to-day, we can become so focused on what isn’t working with the way we design and plant street trees that it can be difficult to focus on the people and places that are actually doing right by them. It’s just so… More
Earlier this year, Silva Cells were installed at the new Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington D.C. This site will commemorate the legacy of Dr. King but is not solely about the past; it is also about the future.
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