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Growing Power – Workshop in Review

This is Power! This is real power! Worms! Worms make soil, the best, most fertile soil imaginable. WORMS + COMPOST = SOIL. That’s the truth. Compost = Waste. Take some waste, add some worms and produce soil that will grow virtually anything.

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Reservoir Through History

by Alex Kiley, reference material provided by Frank Alioto Since its construction in 1873 the Kilbourn Park Reservoir has provided a lot of color to the neighborhood. After all, it went uncovered for a good 100 years, which to some seemed an open invitation for swimming. Measuring 310 feet east to west and 515 feet […]

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Our Award Winning Neighbor

What makes the Urban Ecology Center deserving of a Mayor’s 2004 Urban Design Award? Well, a lot of things. The Award recognizes efforts “above and beyond to create public spaces or street friendly buildings that are warm, welcoming, innovative, creative, urban, sophisticated and fun,” and a visitor to the Center will see all of that and more. Driving down Park Avenue for the first time, one just has to wonder, “What is that?”