Reporting on Sustainably Built Environments from Bricks to Cities
What are the distinctive elements that bring you back to a place, that spark your imagination, and help you remember place? A landscaped retaining wall can sometimes be a thing of remarkable beauty, as seen by this example of a gabion wall.
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About Glenn MeyersA writer, producer and director, Meyers is editor and site director of Green Building Elements, a contributor to Clean Technica, and founder of Green Streets MediaTrain, a communications connection and eLearning hub. As an independent producer, he's been involved in the development, production and distribution of television and distance learning programs for both the education industry and corporate sector. He also is an avid gardener and loves sustainable innovation.
Things that that bring you back to a place… a time back in ’69 when the builder of a new home on rolling Kansas terrain told my mom the dutch elm trees would have to go in order to raise/lower the landscape grade to our newly poured basement foundation. Mom’s answer, “You build the house Jake… we’ll handle the trees”. … and so that summer taking large rock from a nearby commercial construction digging we built both root preserving wells and walls as needed and they are still in place today. In fact most every tree we planted at early living sites in Missouri and Kansas are still standing even though we have been gone 40 or more years. In our family when some one died, we planted a tree.
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