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Still Need 10 Volunteers @ Austin Oyster on Sunday
Posted by: austinparks on October 10, 2009
Austin Oyster Race is this Sunday
Posted by: austinparks on October 6, 2009
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- Some news from around…. December 15, 2009Agreement on role of conservancy in Buffalo’s parks reached. (WNED) Bicycle Highways considered in the Year in Ideas. (NYT) The debate over Seattle Alaskan Way Viaduct… will a tunnel be built? (WSJ) Former NYC Parks Commissioner Paul Hoving passes away and is remembered by a former journalist. (City Room)
- Baltimore’s Green Giant: Druid Hill Park December 13, 2009We just finished reading a new book about Baltimore’s first large public park, Druid Hill Park. Many may not have heard of this 745-acre greensward just north of the city’s downtown. In Druid Hill Park: the heart of historic Baltimore, authors Eden Unger Bowditch and Anne Draddy give great insight into how cities and their political [...]
- Connecting City Parks to Global Warming December 10, 2009With the Copenhagen summit taking place this week in Denmark, it’s a good time to highlight the merits of urban parks in combating global climate change. In fact, in a session this week there on reducing carbon through public transit, an official from Portland’s Tri-Met spoke of how cities need to be “places where people [...]
