I had no idea. It appears it's often called the "road verge". And it goes my many other names, tree belt, utility strip, out lawn. Well whatever you call it in Los Angeles it's city owned and you can now plant on it for free. Question...do you want to, if it's in a high traffic area? Maybe that's why it goes by another name: the devil's strip.
-San Jose, California seems very serious about offering tax breaks to owners of undeveloped land. The purpose? Agree to a 5 year lease for urban agriculture.
-Want to bulid your own multi-story worm hotel but not pay a dime? These munificent souls have posted some open source design. Download the blueprints and tweak to your satisfaction.
-Chulalongkorn University has invested about $180,000 USD in a 17,000 square foot green roof on a nearby mall. This is the biggest green roof I know of in Thailand and they got very good bang for their buck!
-It's always great to have more scientific evidence detailing the efficiency of green roofs. Here's a study of some green roofs in Italy which has determined "incoming heat into the building through the roof is 60% lower than the incoming heat without vegetation."
-Two professors point out something which seems obvious in retrospect, holding 20% of the Earth's fresh water, how climate change affects the coastlines of the Great Lakes is something we should pay attention to!
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