What To Do When “Climate Change Hits Home”
That headline was a little ominous, wasn’t it? It sounds like those scary preparedness pamphlets you see at a doctor’s office or in the subway. What to do if you…
That headline was a little ominous, wasn’t it? It sounds like those scary preparedness pamphlets you see at a doctor’s office or in the subway. What to do if you…
We recently got an inquiry from a reader in response to our chart, How Much Soil To Grow A Big Tree?, asking whether there is a way to estimate the…
What is the difference between a complete street and a complete road? This is a distinction that I didn’t give too much though to until reading an entry on Strong…
Come visit us next week on June 3rd and 4th in Booth #703 at the FCM Conference and Municipal Expo! Michael James, Director of Deep Root Canada Corp., will be…
Recently I had a chat with an arborist who was convinced that when a street tree dies it is related to root barriers. Try as I might, nothing could dissuade…
Bio char, or terra preta, is one of the best, longest lasting soil amendments known to humans. This pyrolysed carbon is a soil amendment that can include surprising ingredients such…
In Part 1 I talked about the history of Bio Char. In Part 2, I’ll discuss some of the controversy surrounding this soil amendment. I’ve only known about bio char…
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, in collaboration with several partners, recently released PhillyTreeMap, a crowd-sourced tree census project in the 13-county, 3-state Philadelphia region. I interviewed Casey Combs, ISA Certified Municipal…
This week I interviewed Kathy Hamilton, a landscape architect with the Westmoreland Conservation District in Greensburg, PA. Kathy worked on the design of two recent integrated tree-and-stormwater Silva Cell projects,…
Green City, Clean Waters Promo from GreenTreks Network on Vimeo. Big news! On June 1st the City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Water Department [PWD] signed an ambitious agreement to…
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