Most designers are now well aware of the movement toward sustainability in landscape design. And many, I’m sure, are familiar with the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SSI), a collaborative effort to bring the landscape design process into the same discussion of sustainability that has produced the LEED certification for buildings. Here is a blurb from the SSI web site which explains their mission:
The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an effort underway to develop guidelines and performance benchmarks for
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Well, I’ve (along with my wife Carol) been relocating. Not far, but that doesn’t matter all that much. I discovered several years ago, when we moved from one side of the street to another that distance isn’t the important thing in moving, it’s, well, moving… packing and all that good stuff. Which brings me to another thing you never want to do when moving, and that is break your wrist, severely to boot. Thank God
Where to begin? Well, most importantly, for the sake of this blog, I’m a newly minted landscape designer, having just completed my studies last May (2007) at The Landscape Institute of The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University (We all love to throw in the Harvard University thing!). Also, my wife Carol and I moved to Maine this past spring and are renting a lovely cabin on the Medomak River in Waldoboro, a small town in the midcoast area.
While waiting for the client calls to come flooding in, I thought it would be a nice idea to combine my skills as a landscape designer and those of my former life as a librarian, to try and produce something useful for the landscape design community, namely a blog as a sort of portal, listing the best of the web in the area of landscape design and related disciplines. Sound like a good idea? Me too. But the seed needs good earth and sun and enough water to thrive. Here’s hoping I have enough of all three to make this worthwhile for those checking in.