we can fight city hall

“urban green spaces are fundamental components of a city’s infrastructure - green spaces enrich the lives of city dwellers in many ways, offering places to watch wildlife, to renew from the stresses of daily life, and to provide many environmental functions (i.e., minimize flooding) - evidence shows that urban green spaces reduce anxiety and stress, even help to lower crime and violence - however, many people only equate green spaces with public parks and other publicly accessible spaces - citizens forget about green spaces in their own backyards, the street right-of-ways and other public, private and semi-public places - urban green spaces are all around us and if we look hard enough we will be amazed at what they have to offer - unfortunately, many of these hidden green spaces are under threat of disappearing…….” - - the seattle audubon society

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emerald city vs the big apple

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in the emerald city, we are hacking green in our public spaces - by contrast, in the big apple, mayor bloomberg launches the plant a million tree in nyc initiative on october 9, by planting the first tree with bette midler in brooklyn perhaps when mayor bloomberg comes to seattle with president clinton and nobel peace laureate al gore on november 1st as part of the mayors’ climate protection summit, mayor bloomberg can bring one of those nyc trees for seattle - I know just where he can plant - we’re missing a few….new york, new york … king of the hill / top of the heap

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