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• Join my green pyramid scheme*, part 1

  I am officially announcing a call for first round participants for the Seeding the City green roof module installation. If you are a New York City resident and interested in hosting a 2′x4′ green roof module, here is how you can participate: Contact me. I will provide you with information on urban environmental issues and [...]

• Help me chose a summary statement

  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 [...]

• Test Plot Roof Needed

  I am planning to plant a test site this spring, to test out different types of modular roof systems (sacks & trays) in different configurations (does just 1 do okay or does there need to be 2 or more modules) and different plants (seedum vs. native). In order to do that I will need a [...]

• Modules planted!!

    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 [...]

• Here we go again!

  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 [...]

• Press Release on Seeding the City (please share!)

  For Immediate Release Contact: Eve Mosher October 19, 2009 Patches of green sprouting across New York City October – December, 2009 It may feel like fall in most of the New York, but on rooftops throughout the city, as little patches of green are sprouting, it feels a little more like spring. Seeding the City, [...]

• The plants are growing & thriving

  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 [...]

• Sexy New Video for Festival of Ideas for a New City

  See if you can spot the Seeding the City cameo! Join me at the Festival to build your own green roof module and take home one with a flag and install it on your roof to become a part of the growing network. For more information on the Festival: – Info.: http://www.festivalofideasnyc.com/about – Interactive Map: [...]

• Spring has Sprung!

  With the beautiful weather that has descended upon NYC, we here at Seeding The City have been itching to get our fingers dirty. Over the weekend we planted some test modules with herbs (some that are good in sandy dry shallow soil – cuban oregano anyone?) and some that traditionally don’t do as well (rosemary?) [...]

• All done now…

  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 [...]