Urban Gardens

While in Los Angeles enjoying a respite from New York’s heat wave, I’m attending the Women in Green Forum, interviewing smart people like Doug Busch, founder of ECOtech Design Studio, and visiting some edible vertical gardens and urban farms. In the…

At today’s Women in Green Forum, I had the pleasure of meeting Kathleen de Chadenèdes, Director of the s’Cool Initiative, a project of the Orfalea Foundations, who spoke about her organization’s efforts to make fresh local food available to Santa Barbara…

Lacking floor space or just want to add plants to the upper reaches of your living space while at the same time conserving water and purifying the air you breathe? You may want to consider the Boskke Sky Planter.

Since potted plants…

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Bench spotted on Magazine Street. Photo by Robin Plaskoff Horton.

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