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What Opportunities Are There For Eco-

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Design Multi-Use Planter Boxes

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How Beauty is Making Scientists...

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Specify the native plants that...

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How South Miami Changed to Organic...

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Woodland CP Pilot

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Incredible Wind-Powered Sculptures

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Turning the Space Under the A...

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Menu for Woodland

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Some Amazing Bamboo Buildings

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Creating a Food Incubator in...

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Sail Trade Network in Long Island

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Fungus- and Yeast-Produced Textiles

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Could We Live in Greenhouses?

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Building Parks that Can Transform...

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Natural formations as new...

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Sculptures to Collect Beach Trash

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Create Pop Ups in Derelict Spaces

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Specify the native plants that...

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Forest Skating Ideal Winter...

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Creating Alternatives to Lawns

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How To Create a Community-Owned...

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Seaweed Could Be a Super Food

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Creating Swamp Forests on Long...

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Make Parks on Old Infrastructure

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Design a functional backyard

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Living Break Waters: Staten Island

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How South Miami Changed to Organic...

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Color Urban Design for Ft....

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The Art of Building with Bamboo

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Plant Native Pollinators on Your...

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The Potential of Hempcrete

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Form Wastewater Strategy for...

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Turning Underpass Pillars into...

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Designing Cities Like Terraced...

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Research regional edible foods

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We Should Cross Promote More Local...

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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Earth...

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Using Beer Waste to Make Glass

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Making Surfing More Sustainable

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Minneapolis's 37-Block...

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Create Bird Houses in Public Spaces

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Can Piping Plovers and Humans...

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How the Riviera Maya Became an...

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Seeing Another Side of Congo

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Biking/Hiking Jamaica Bay Greenway

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How Could We Improve Bike Sharing...

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Could We Transition to Using...

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What Opportunities Are There For...

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Make Parks on Old Infrastructure

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Can Piping Plovers and Humans...

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Butcher Shop/Restaurants Rising in...

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Sculptures to Collect Beach Trash

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Imagining 2100 NYC

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Fungus- and Yeast-Produced Textiles

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Fighting for the Right to Grow Food

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How Could We Foster Distinct...

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Growing Mushrooms Under Solar...

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Embedded Fungi Self-Heal Concrete

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Menu for Woodland

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Using Beer Waste to Make Glass

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How Could We Continue to Foster...

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Incredible Wind-Powered Sculptures

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Seeing Another Side of Congo

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Sailing Europes Rivers on Homemade...

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Making Beer Without Hops

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Could Space-Based Solar Be a...

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How To Do Agroforestry in Northern...

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I am not sure what bike lanes are like for the area we are discussing, is there a map somewhere? But I really like this article showing planters used to protect bike lanes. It's been pretty...

Design Multi-Use Planter Boxes

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Sure. Plants that require less resources would be ideal (size at maturity, maintenance, and water are a big considerations). Also plants that can provide homes for insects is really cool. I...

Design Multi-Use Planter Boxes

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I would be willing to donate time to help some days implementing the planters/holders.

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And the types of plants can obviously be chosen to have minimal care requirements.

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Which streets? It might be useful to look at specific stretches of sidewalk and know how much space there is to work with. Plus, there are rain gardens built to handle stormwater in some parts of...

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This is such an important post. We live 3hrs from Michoacan where all the Monarchs migrate every year. For years and years the populations have been declining and I can't tell you how sad it is to...

Plant Native Pollinators on Your Property!

it could be like the beach boardwalk path on South Beach in Miami

Integrate plans for greenway into Waterfront Access Plan for mixed use rezoning on BCD ferry to tribute park

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Maybe make it into an: Escape the room scenarios?

Turning the Space Under the A Train into a Pedestrian-Friendly Cooridor

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This certainly sounds good in theory. I'd certainly be open to exploring additional add ons. My concern with gardens is the birds this will attract which could cause ground "messes" thus making...

Turning Underpass Pillars into Gardens

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I really think this has potential!! With such a vast area with nothing but snow and trees; a simple ice trail running from point A to B with pop up cafe's along route could bring in tourists and...

Forest Skating Ideal Winter Activity