June 27, 2007 9:04 AM
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Ketzel Levine, National Public Radio senior correspondent (and much more important, a 2007
ASLA Professional Awards jury member), has launched a
new blog on NPR.org. The blog, called "Talking Plants with Ketzel Levine," went live today and already has several posts, a flickr.com photo gallery, and podcasts. I'm sure her self-described "plant nerd" persona will make for great reading.
By the way, ASLA also has an
official flickr photo gallery: visit to see pictures of our green roof through the months, shots from last year's Annual Meeting, and more.
March 13, 2007 12:06 PM
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Suggested Subhead: The Dirt Snubbed by Jury; Thousands to Launch ProtestWe kid! We kid because we love!
Planetizen, a fine website by Urban Insight, has released its
list of the best websites of 2007 in the fields of planning, design, and development. A lot of big names in the field are there, including
Dirt favorites
WorldChanging and
Sustainalane.
The Dirt congratulates all winners, and wants to call out the
Louisiana Speaks site and the work there by
Chad Danos, ASLA, and his firm Brown + Danos. Louisiana Speaks is a storehouse of information on planning the rebuilding of the battered Gulf Coast.
Click through for
the whole list (including [he says grudgingly]
Pruned, the "hottest blog for landscape architecture").
January 13, 2007 4:23 PM
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A candid take on garden design and how it's experienced through various websites is here at
Garden Rant.
Garden Design Magazine gets a rousing shout-out for keeping current on the subject.
Other websites are ranked by a three-category system: crappy, so-so, or wow. The actual garden designs are assessed as well.
In one particularly flowery section of the rant, one designer's work is described as "the marriage of clean design to the love of plants, uniting the English tapestry tradition of intense herbaceous borders with the new naturalistic and eco-friendly movement - think Gertrude Jekyll meet
Oehme, Van Sweden" - referring to
Wolfgang Oehme, FASLA, and
James van Sweden, FASLA, whose firm is based in Washington, D.C.
December 21, 2006 10:18 PM
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While most families recycle their Christmas tree ornaments every year until they disintegrate,
in the event that you might need to replace one,
Treehugger suggests using other recyclable materials. Energy-saving illumination and decorations are also available.
Right back atcha kid!
WorldChanging, an oft-referenced friend of
The Dirt, gives
ASLA a nice little plug as a resource under its shelter section, saying, "While a professional organization with broad interests, the ASLA has increasingly moved to the forefront of the discussion about the role of landscape design and construction in building more sustainable communities."
This is a highly influential site in the green web community, so
The Dirt is psyched about the plug. If you are too, go check them out, and maybe
pick up their book.
The Dirt got a nice e-mail yesterday from the very good folks over at the Urban Land Institute pointing out that the group has gotten into this whole blogging thing with
The Ground Floor, which covers commercial development, infrastructure, finance, and everything going on at ULI itself. ULI has tapped some of its senior resident fellows to write for the blog, so it has some impressive contributors contributing some impressive content. The current front page has articles on overvalued real estate stocks, linking infrastructure and land use, and the growing influence of India and China on the global economy. Pretty heady stuff, but we're betting they've never linked to
America's finest news source.So go check them out!
This is kind of random, but skipping through the blogosphere we stumbled upon
this great marketing piece by Jun von Matt for the landscape architecture firm Tur & Partners--which we think is a German firm. The postcard appears to be embedded with seeds and dirt that grow through holes punched in the plan. According to Advertising for Peanuts, where we found this little gem, it's "the first direct mail piece that needs watering."
The good folks over at
WorldChanging have a new book out,
WorldChanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, that has great information on all things green and environmentally healthy. It even includes chapters on green building and landscape, smart growth, sustainable communities, greening infrastructure, and all sorts of stuff we love and cherish. The group is trying to generate some new-school buzz around the book through bloggers and online bookstore rankings. It peaked at number 12 on
Amazon's top 100 list, but has since fallen to 37--still, pretty impressive numbers given the subject matter. So, if you want to help these guys out--buy the book, get it for your friends and colleagues, and
buy it from Amazon to push those numbers up. Surely, this is a more worthy book than
Culture Warrior by Bill O'Rielly--currently number 14 on the Amazon top seller list.
Don't garden angry!
The Dirt loves discovering new blogs and we were just alerted to one for residential junkies called
GardenRant, which covers everything from
anti-sprawl gardens, to
working with a landscape architect, to
the whole gardening-on-TV thing. We got a note from Susan Harris--one of the Ranters, I guess you'd call them--asking us to check them out, and we liked what we saw. Harris also mentioned that GardenRant would love to have a landscape architect guest write for them, as well. So, if you're into that sort of thing, head on over there and take a look.
September 22, 2006 12:14 PM
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