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Urban autumn: when a single favored tree like the gingko provides all the leaf-peeping a city needs.

September 30, 2021 5 Comments

The introduction of landscaping into densely populated urban settings has always been a thorny issue, pun fully intended. Steeped in emissions and incarcerated by impervious surfaces, plant life across urban environments typically only thrives against the odds. Certain flora that can flourish in a suburban front yard are scarce in downtown settings, for obvious reasons:

Cycle tracks in small towns: North Beach, Maryland has one, but does it really work?

September 26, 2021 12 Comments

Do you remember the good old days of bicycle advocacy, back when the prevailing ambition was the introduction of bike lanes, buy applying solid stripes on the pavement? If you’re older than twenty, you probably should remember those days; they weren’t that long ago. As recently as the mid-2000s, the standard for bike-friendliness was bike

The oversized rabbits of Valdez, Alaska: from invasive specie to unofficial mascot.

September 18, 2021 5 Comments

Verdant and breathtaking as much of Alaska might be, the Last Frontier is no great shakes when it comes to biodiversity. Such is the nature of boreal forests in general: they typically host few varieties of tree species, although the ones that thrive are as abundant as one might expect in a mostly uninhabited, vast

Roadside vegetable market update: still sexy produce. But less subtle.

September 13, 2021 3 Comments

Keeping my tradition of singling out particularly smart business models, I’ll shift my focus away from the previous article’s burgeoning ice cream chain Kilwin’s and, this time, return my camera’s lens to an old standby: a roadside produce stand off State Route 1 (Coastal Highway) in southern Delaware. I say “return” because I visited this

Fro-yo free fall: how a once surging business model can stabilize, by marginalizing itself.

September 8, 2021 6 Comments

Singling out an apparently unsuccessful business is even too cruel for a cad like me—especially when the business is still functional. (I have no problem conducting an entrepreneurial post-mortem though.) That said, since the business in question here not only is still operating but was in operation while I shot these pics, I have to

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