Greenspace Design and Contracting

06/03/2024

One of my favorite examples of artistic and repurposed use in recycling. Aspirations for cleaning the garage 🤔🧐😳😎

He’s creating an entire zoo of metallic animals from 100% reclaimed materials.

02/18/2023

Air Vent "Ask the Expert" Seminar Tinley Park, IL Results...

Question of the Day: "What if an ice dam forms and covers The Edge Vent intake vent on the roof?" If the vent is covered by an ice dam it will not leak but it also is not allowing air to pass into the attic. Hopefully by following the ice dam fighting steps in the illustration, the ice dam will not be a prolonged event, and the intake airflow can then work as designed.

Thank you to the 78 roofing pros who attended our Seminar this morning in Tinley Park. The Q & A again went into overtime. THANK YOU!

Next week the Seminar heads to Greenville, SC; Atlanta, GA; Columbia, SC; and Raleigh, NC. Use the link to sign up. Sessions continue across North America through mid-April 2023. They're FREE.

https://www.airvent.com/2023-schedule-and-registration

02/18/2023

Screened porch with room for humans and cats. With dry creek, beds for water retention and erosion control.

02/18/2023

The finishing touches on a two tier deck, patio and landscaping

02/18/2023

Looking for a screened porch added to the backside of your house?

06/15/2021

Please read and beware when outside enjoying Mother Nature.

A dangerous invasive plant has spread across Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, posing a hazard to anyone who encounters it unknowingly on roadsides, trails, public parks and other areas where mowin…

05/03/2021

A garden shed for tools and wood storage. Made from reclaimed materials. With a patio of salvaged brick and concrete.

05/03/2021

And a garden shed for tools and wood storage. From reclaimed materials.

05/03/2021

Privacy from the street without building a wall

10/14/2020

From Pantheras Puma Project: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
“By now many of you may have seen the viral video of a trail runner's encounter with a mother mountain lion in Utah. If you haven't, we've put the link below.
Dramatic headlines like "Mountain Lion Stalks Man" and this person's own video title "Cougar Attack in Utah Mountain Lion Stalks Me For Six Minutes" can be very misleading. This was obviously an intense and scary encounter, and we would have been pretty terrified by such an interaction (to say the least).

However, context is important. If you watch the video, you can see at least two "cubs" or "kittens" before momma comes towards the runner. This is a case of a mother doing what most mothers do: defending her young. She was trying to get the man to leave the area.

Stalking behavior is very different; if the man were seen as prey, the lion would probably have stayed stealthily out of sight and directly attacked, likely leading to a much different outcome.

Dramatic headlines do nothing to help us coexist with our human neighbors. As our friend Beth Pratt, mountain lion advocate and Regional Executive Director at the Wildlife Federation in California says: "We should have a healthy respect for mountain lions, but not demonize them- they are not waiting in the woods ready to pounce on us at any moment. For the most part, they want to avoid us."

Anytime we enter habitat shared with large predators it's important to know what they mean by their actions. Overt, but more often subtle ways of communicating telegraph their intent and consequently, how we should reciprocate with our behavior. The very fact that we don't see the grizzly bear that is in our neighborhood right now, or never find the lion's kill near our normal walking routes until well after it's left, is by design.

These creatures and so many others are profoundly scared of US. WE are most threatening species on earth and every top carnivore shies from our company whether we are playing the role of the hunter or not.”

06/20/2020

Reposting

02/27/2020

Adaptive reuse and art: a fusion of imagination
What’s in your garage or workshop?
Kitchen or . . . Studio.

He’s creating an entire zoo of metallic animals from 100% reclaimed materials.

10/12/2019

Ingenuity

10/01/2019

05/05/2019

Thinking about a rain garden to solve flooding issues?

05/05/2019

35 year deck with a new rail cap and fresh paint and stain. Looks ready for entertaining.

03/04/2019

What do you think? Spring is around the corner. Or is it here now?

Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation's success by its productivity -- instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy life doesn't have to cost the earth). Which coun...

02/28/2018

Be alert and smart in not transporting wood.

First encountered in the United States in Pennsylvania in 2014, the spotted lanternfly had spread to New York, Delaware, and Virginia by early 2018. The invasive insect threatens Tree of Heaven as well as grapes, hops, and fruit trees, and it has a penchant for hitchhiking. Anyone sighting spotted l...