At the Co-Op School in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy…
So I have written a couple of different summary statements. Which do you like better? “Seeding the City” is a public art project that seeks to plant “seeds” of thought in the urban environment on challenges of climate change and potential for remediation. Social networking will determine the location for installation of individual green roof [...]
As we rapidly approach the launch of Seeding the City (in September, more info on participating), we check in on the growth of the modules on the roof of Covenant House. The grasses are having a hard time, but the sedum have already started to spread. And some local wildcards have taken root… I wonder [...]
Well the NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship is great news! This allows me to not only go after grants that might not normally give to individuals, but it also allows me to reach out to individual donors who can then claim their donations as tax deductible. This also applies to corporate giving. On top of that I [...]
At the fabulous UPROSE in Sunset Park!
I had a great conversation with a local representative of LiveRoof green roof modules yesterday. The headquarters had been very receptive to the project and put me in touch with a local nursery to answer questions about some of the more technical details. They are actually interested in testing out a native seedum that they [...]
the first installations and flags are up! More coming!
Though there are still a lot of things going on with the HighWaterLine project, my mind and focus have moved on to greener pastures (quite literally). I have been working on the Seeding the City Project (or for short g’roofs). I won’t post a whole lot in here in the beginning, just wanted to get [...]
This summer has been a mixed blessing for the little sedum that I brought for the Festival for the New City, but after some care through the worst of the heat waves, they are doing awesome. I have to thin them out a little (I just put all of the leftover sedum in the trays [...]
At the Co-Op School in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy…
The plants are growing now! I was lucky enough to spend part of the last week working with the fabulous staff and kids at Covenant House New York. We were on the roof of their building in midtown Manhattan on two gloroous afternoons mixing the growing medium and planting all of the grasses and [...]
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