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• It’s about potential!

  So the first installations went out today!! The first one went to the amazing people at Georgia’s Place in Crown Heights. I will upload photos asap. My amazing project manager, Amanda, picked up the modules at Covenant House and brought them out to Crown Heights. They looked great – they are quite small but I [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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: [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• What I did this week

  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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• Sunset Park

  At the fabulous UPROSE in Sunset Park!