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Tag: Living Walls

  • Wednesday, April 1, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Green Roofs and Living Walls

    Living roofs and walls are popping up everywhere, in social media, magazines, and in our cities. What are they? How do they work? Can you have one? Landscape designer Trevor Smith will explain it all: the pros and cons of the different systems on the market, his successes and failures, and the steps you must follow to take your garden to new heights. The lecture takes place at Garden in the Woods, Hemenway Road in Framingham, on Wednesday, April 1, from 6:30 – 7:30 and is co-sponsored by the New England Wild Flower Society and the Ecological Landscape Alliance. $20 for members of sponsoring organizations, $25 for nonmembers. Register online at http://www.newenglandwild.org/learn/our-programs/green-roofs-and-living-walls.  Image from www.houzz.com.

  • Wednesday, April 4, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Living Walls: Verticulture ™ Life Off the Wall

    Though the idea of living walls and green facades is not new, the modern day applications and the infinite design and business possibilities are.  Explore the benefits of living wall technology, the opportunities it presents, and learn how to incorporate the artfulness of living walls into your landscape or home.   Learn about the environmental value of living walls and see how they can serve as an innovative way to overcome landscape challenges in confined spaces with dynamic results, and learn to take Urban Farming to new heights.  This Ecological Landscaping Association seminar is co-sponsored by the New England Wild Flower Society, and will take place Wednesday, A;pril 4, from 6:30 – 8:30 at Garden in the Woods in Framingham.  Your instructor Trevor Smith is a landscape designer and LEED Green Associate with Land Escapes.  Fee is $24 for ELA and NEWFS members, $29 for nonmembers.  Register on line at www.newfs.org.

  • Friday and Saturday, August 21 & 22 – Boston GreenFest 2009

    Boston GreenFest 2009 will be held on Friday and Saturday, August 21 and 22, at Boston City Hall Plaza.  Global warming affects not only our planet, but our personal lives.  What does this mean for us?  How can we work together in our neighborhoods to change the future now?  Come have fun!  Learn and share new technologies and ideas that can immediately change our daily lives and help our planet at the same time.  Bring the family, friends and neighbors to the FREE Boston GreenFest 2009.  Wear green.

    There will be the One Gallon Challenge – a race from Greenfield to GreenFest.  On display will be a group of cars you’ve never seen before.  On Thursday, August 20, they will have “raced” 100 miles from Greenfield, MA to the festival on the energy of one gallon of gas.  The Museum of Science is offering reduced rates to visit the Museum for everyone who attends Boston GreenFest.  There will be Solar Energy Workshops, kids activities, the Boston Community Choir, the Nathan Hale Elementary School Choir, Ruff Ruffman from WGBH’s FETCH, Project Recycled Runway featuring Sam Mendoza and Sparklle (sic) Thames.  Meet Miss Earth Massachusetts (and not the former Miss California!), hear Jeff Wolfe, groSolar talk about the future of solar energy, and see a Kung Fu and Tai Chi demo by Yang’s Martial Arts Academy of Boston.  Walk through the amazing Time Tunnel, join a community greentable discussion, attend a Green Business Breakfast, attend Green Training Seminars, and see the Inconvenient Truth Slideshow Presentations in Spanish and English.  Play GEO (Green Earth Olympics), and enjoy Valet Bike Parking.  There will be Green Roofs and Living Walls, Organic Gardens, retrofit seminars, community initiative information, compost lessons, and much, much more.  For additional information log on to www.bostongreenfest.org.