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
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
Whoops — one more eensy blog post before we break for the holidays! As part of Deep Root’s end-of-year giving, we’ve donated to the following groups: Healthy Building Network Water 1st International Partners in Health SF Animal Care and Control These organizations reflect a mixture of our professional and our personal interests, and we’re all… More
Welcome to 2011! Last month we added video icons to Silva Cell Featured Projects with accompanying video footage on our website. Now we’ve got another little change that should make searching for projects even easier.
For those of you who were at GreenBuild a couple of weeks ago, I hope it was a successful show and that you had the opportunity to learn and go to a bunch of the interesting sessions. But if you didn’t go, or just didn’t make it to our session, ASLA’s “The Dirt” blog has… More
We try to cover a lot of ground on this blog while keeping the information relevant and informative for all our readers. As far as the Silva Cell is concerned, most recently we’ve had information about using tap-on screws for on-structure projects and shared innovative ideas for construction and design from installations across the globe. Next week… More
We’ve made a little update to the DeepRoot website that we hope will help people searching out site for information about the Silva Cell.
We’ve talked about it before on this blog — the idea of the city as an organism. And now Radiolab has taken on the subject in truly engrossing and wonderful detail. If you don’t already listen to this program, you should. And what better show to start with than “It’s Alive“?
I know CEU requirements vary wildly from state to state wildly, but if you need to fulfill some hours — or just like learnin’! — check out a recent DeepRoot-sponsored course available through McGraw-Hill, Greening the Site: Design Options for Sustainability.
Worldwide we have had more than 150 Silva Cell installations (161, according to our records). You can see them on our regularly updated Google Map!
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