Occurring on the third Friday of September, PARK(ing) Day is an annual event that began with a single parking space in 2005 in San Francisco. Since then, the event has grown as a platform for creative 'guerilla landscaping', as well as a venue for illustrating the need for public green space, civic participation, and thoughtful community development.
Only a couple blocks away from the famed Portland State Farmers Market in Oregon's capital city, the hotel's courtyard is a prime example of a well-implemented green, or 'living', wall.
Visiting the James and Rosemary Nix Nature Center in Laguna Beach...
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For fourteen years, Scott Strazzante, a Pulitzer prize-winning photographer at the Chicago Tribune, tracked the evolution of a typical Illinois family farm through its transformation into a suburban subdivision. With housing sprawl replacing grazing land and big box stores built where crops once grew, this award-winning documentary depicts a phenomenon all too familiar in rural areas.
