Municipalities With Soil Volume Minimums for Trees
This post is now out of date!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…
This post is now out of date!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…
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…
This is interesting – two studies I’ve read recently emphasize the very real value that the urban forest has for migrating birds. Here are the important takeaways about the value…
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…
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….
I am lucky enough to live within a (long) walk of my job. I often take advantage of this proximity, walking home along an unattractive stretch of San Francisco’s Market…
There’s no arguing that, at first glance, the Silva Cell just looks like a hunk of black plastic. Its humble and basic form definitely doesn’t reflect the extensive design, testing,…
Silva Cells were recently installed at the University of South Carolina as part of a larger multi-use tailgate facility. The site, which is across the street from the school’s stadium,…
There are so many reasons why trees are beneficial in urban areas. This abundance of evidence can have the strange effect of sometimes making the benefits we cite feel like…
Fossils are pretty amazing. These ghostly remains contain incredible detail about the ancient living things that accidentally created them. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal about the discovery…