Natural Resources Design

So excited for my friend and colleague Nancy Striniste new book!!!! Come see her speak about her new book on Nature Play Spaces. She is a national leader on nature play.

Countdown:
2 days to book release! Join the official launch celebration in one week! Tickets: bit.ly/NaturePlayAtHomeApril7

We are excited to announce a new project with Evergreen Montessori School, Silver Spring MD! We will be working together to design a natural play space where their students will connect with nature, build cooperative play skills, and improve their environmental literacy. We strongly believe every school landscape is as imbued with learning potential as the classrooms indoors!

Check out another natural play space we designed for Constitution Gardens in Gaithersburg, MD. This featured a log scramble, "insect hotel", climbing snag, and lots of native plant life.

In honor of International Women’s Day this year, we are shining a spotlight on Wangari Maathai Maathai.
Wangari founded The Green Belt Movement, an environmental organization in Kenya that empowers communities, women in particular, to conserve the environment and improve each other’s livelihoods. The organization encourages the women to work together to grow and plant trees that will prevent erosion, store rainwater, and provide food and firewood. These women also receive a small monetary gift for their work.

Check out the organization’s website, to see how you can gift a tree and learn more about this extraordinary woman and her impactful, life-changing work.

Support Our Work | The Green Belt Movement The ongoing support of individuals, like you, makes it possible for the Green Belt Movement to continue its core work of engaging women in planting trees, protecting critical forests & watersheds, and empowering communities. Your support helps to conserve soil and ensure food security, to sustain ru...

Astounding to see hard evidence that a rich, green landscape around a school can improve students' performance in class. We found this 2016 study by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign while researching for an upcoming DC Public School design project.

A green view through a classroom window can improve students’ performance, study finds The News Bureau, part of Public Affairs, generates and coordinates news coverage of the Urbana-Champaign campus