Posts tagged storm water

Sunday with Green Map, Times-up! and Siempre Verde Garden

The day started with a tour around the edges of the Lower East Side with Green Map and Wendy Brawer and Ben Shepard of Times-up! The tour also was a discussion which looked into potential solutions for future flooding. The water marks basically were close to the original edge from this map of the Lower East […]

March 19th, 2013 | Tags: community garden, Green Map, lower East Side, Permaculture, Place & space design, Public Space, reclaimed space, siempre verde community garden, storm water, sustainability, Times Up, uban gardens, urban planning, volunteer clean up day | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Sunday with Green Map, Times-up! and Siempre Verde Garden

Biogeochemical Cap At El Jardin

ABOUT EL JARDIN del PARAISO El Jardin plan: GaiaInstituteNY.org We visited El Jardin during permaculture certification with the wetlands expert, Bill Young. Paul Mankeiwicz explains this process at the garden at the annual MoS Mud Ball Ball and Oyster Shuck. This property is believed to be the first biogeochemical cap and storm water capture parkland in the […]

July 14th, 2011 | Tags: biogeochemical cap, Commons, community garden, community gardens, empty lots, storm water, urban rubble | Category: 3. Resources, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Biogeochemical Cap At El Jardin