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		<title>The Mandarin Project – Green Roof Garden on a Parking Garage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tobias Wolf
Boston&#8217;s Prudential Center has been transformed in recent decades with the construction of new buildings, shopping arcades, and landscapes. 
The most recent addition, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, includes a public garden built in 2008 on the roof of a 1964 parking garage. 
The half-acre garden stands in deliberate contrast to the buildings around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=892</link>
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		<title>Vertical Gardens ~ Living Walls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Trevor Smith
The concept of a garden is rising to new heights, literally, as we look up rather than down for new gardening opportunities. Referred to by many different names &#8212; vertical gardens, living walls, or green walls &#8212; this relatively new form of gardening is taking root in many locations across the globe. 
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=906</link>
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		<title>A Green Roof in North Central Vermont</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sarah Holland
When thinking of green roof technology and its advantages, one thinks of reducing storm water runoff, mitigating the heat island effect in the inner city, seeing a small green-growing paradise in the middle of an urban jungle, doing one&#8217;s part contributing oxygen and eating up CO2 at the top of a high-rise. Living [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=980</link>
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		<title>Manchester, NH City Hall Green Roof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by UNH Cooperative Extension
Natural resources play a huge and often unrecognized role in our communities. Many people living or working in cities believe that natural resources lie outside of the city, and that they have to go into rural areas to experience the natural world.
The work of urban and community forestry educators help people to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=899</link>
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		<title>UNH Green Roof at James Hall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Doug Bencks
In June, the University of New Hampshire’s James Hall received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for its renovation and expansion of the original 1929 academic building. James Hall houses the Department of Earth Science, Natural Resources, and the Environment.
As part of the University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=891</link>
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		<title>Living, Edible Wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Ted Chapman
In a residential neighborhood outside of Boston, Ted Chapman has created his own version of &#8220;living walls&#8221; that are both ornamental and edible.
The south-facing wall of windows provides passive heat for the house in winter.  The two-story living wall provides shading in the summer and fall as the low sun angle increases [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=902</link>
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		<title>Gleanings&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Urban and Suburban Meadows Author Interviewed for Today Show
Catherine Zimmerman, author of Urban and Suburban Meadows featured in ELA&#8217;s July newsletter, will be a guest on the NBC Today Show on September 13.  Catherine will be the focus of Jane Pauley’s “Your Life Calling” series. The series profiles Americans 50 years or older, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=909</link>
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		<title>Getting Real With Meadows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Nick Novick
A successful project requires careful consideration of design issues, keeping expectations in check, and an understanding of the ecological principles at play.  Meadows can be an attractive and ecological landscape component on both large and small scales. They have the potential to displace at least some of the more mundane landscaping that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=839</link>
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		<title>Urban &amp; Suburban Meadows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by The Meadows Project
Urban &#038; Suburban Meadows, Bringing Meadowscaping to Big and Small Spaces, addresses the problems caused by the extensive planting of non-native grass lawns across America. In ignoring the environmental consequences of such landscape planning, ecosystems are being destroyed and replaced with chemically maintained monocultures.
Author and photographer, Catherine Zimmerman combines her expertise in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=872</link>
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		<title>Asian Longhorn Beetle found in Boston area</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A small infestation of Asian longhorned beetle was found in Jamaica Plain (Boston). The site is at Faulkner Hospital, just across from the Arnold Arboretum. Six infested maple trees were found so far, in close proximity to each other, and have already been removed by USDA/DCR. Surveys will continue this summer.

It is extremely important that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ecolandscaping.org/news/?p=868</link>
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