Marc Lefkowitz | 04/23/19 @ 10:45am | Posted in Land, Water
Trees are the centerpiece of Cuyahoga County’s new plan to rejuvenate a county that is at a crossroad. Adding a couple of strategic goals, and using County resources to do it, would make an already good idea even better.
Marc Lefkowitz | 04/12/19 @ 3:00pm | Posted in Recycle
Doreen Schreiber is one of six “ladies in waste” at the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District. Her role as Business Recycling Specialist is to help companies walk through the often-complicated business of reducing waste, and that includes recycling, composting, donating and strategizing how to reduce what’s going into a landfill.
Marc Lefkowitz | 04/09/19 @ 4:00pm | Posted in Clean water
The 2015 book Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland looms large in 2019, the 50th anniversary of the last fire on the Cuyahoga River.
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 | 04/04/19 @ 10:00am | Posted in Plants & animals, Natural Cleveland
When Timothy Beatley launched Green Urbanism in his eponymous 2000 book and 2010 Biophilic Cities program, he deftly tied together examples of cities where nature appears to be linked to health and happiness. Green Urbanism holds that “as a species we have an innate connection to nature. That we are happier, healthier and able to lead more meaningful lives when nature...
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