Ecosphere

Georgia Planning Association will host their spring conference in my hometown of Macon, Georgia during the Annual Cherry Blossom Festival – billed as the “Pinkest Party on Earth.”  It has been a privilege to serve on the host committee for this event – I can’t think of a better time to visit Macon than Cherry [...]

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ECOS was recently selected to present at the Georgia Planning Spring Conference March 25 & 26 to be held in Macon, Georgia. Sarah Linden (a recent addition to Team Ecos) will present the ease and benefits of the use of ArcHydro in combination with LIDAR data on any planning project. ArcHydro (and other tools like TAUDEM) allow [...]

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Interesting article in the City Farmer News blog – the folks in Seattle, WA are growing vegetables in the no-mans land of parking strips and the Seattle Department of Transportation relaxed its rules to encourage the practice! Read more about it here.
Seattle has also declared 2010 the Year of Urban Agriculture.

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In yesterday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution there was an article about Home Depot identifying portions of parking lots at 100s of their stores that are under utilized and can be sold off for redevelopment.  I say ‘good work’ Home Depot, granted you are doing it for financial reasons, but we all know that these parking lots are [...]

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The 2009 Georgia Downtown Conference, hosted by the Georgia Downtown Association, is being held October 7-9th in Roswell, Georgia. 
This year’s theme, Finding it all Downtown, will focus on the attractions of historic downtown districts.  Shannon Kettering, ASLA, AICP, Vice President, at Ecos will co-present with Lakey Boyd, AICP, CEcD, Principal, Market + Main, Inc on [...]

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