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Marc Lefkowitz | 04/05/19 @ 2:00pm | Posted in Clean water, Home landscaping
Ten years ago, we succeeded in convincing the city to let us replace a broken asphalt driveway—broken because it was growing over the tree root of a 75 to 100 foot tall white oak tree—with a new, well-constructed gravel driveway.
Marc Lefkowitz | 03/31/17 @ 12:00pm | Posted in Home landscaping, Connecting to nature, Land
2017 was the year Cleveland turned its attention to “vibrant green space.” Since 2009, when the city launched a ten-year plan called Sustainable Cleveland 2019 (SC2019), the city’s Office of Sustainability has organized events and activities around a major sustainability theme. Cleveland can lay claim to one of the more longstanding commitments to sustainability. SC2019‘s big event is the annual sustainability...
Marc Lefkowitz | 08/18/16 @ 1:00pm | Posted in Home landscaping
We all want a yard that's healthy for our families, wildlife, and the larger environment.
Marc Lefkowitz | 09/02/15 @ 4:00pm | Posted in Home landscaping
The story of how I convinced the City of Cleveland Heights to grant us a variance to replace an old, ugly, asphalt driveway with a beautiful, sustainable, gravel drive-and why we bothered-has its share of twists and turns and ultimately, an acquiescence. One thing is for certain, without six years of knowledge gained while working at EcoCity Cleveland and now...more
Marc Lefkowitz | 08/04/14 @ 10:00am | Posted in Clean water, Home landscaping, Water
National Public Radio reported this morning about the woes of Toledo, a city of 284,012 people who’ve had no drinking water for three days because of a toxin known as microcystis which comes from algea growing in Lake Erie. The algae is a by-product of synthetic fertilizer (and animal waste) from farms and from grass-filled yards where is being spread in...
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