We are excited to announce that Parkman Triangle in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, will be featured at the Venice Biennale later this year.

My latest article for the UNEP blogging competition that hopefully launch me to Brazil to cover Rio+20: Can grassroots green design with a dose of ancient Asian medicine save our world’s cities?

Parkman Triangle, an example of urban acupuncture in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, is thriving one year after LA City Council President Eric Garcetti anchored the ribbon cutting in August last year.

Parkman Triangle, our example of how urban acupuncture can work, received a mention yesterday in the online edition of Time Magazine. With only four “pocket parks” mentioned, those of us who worked on this park in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles are happy for the exposure.

In my latest article on The Guardian Sustainable Business, I make the case that “urban acupuncture” is one way to make cities more sustainable and livable. Read my interview with LA architect John Southern.

For several months, the gigantic Tinker Toy project gone wrong has vexed neighbors, torn between dumping it or shrugging their shoulders as they walk or drive by it.

It has been a year since work on Parkman Triangle was completed, and now the micro-park is thriving. Last October, NBC 4 interviewed Ara Babaian about the work that went into this Silver Lake street corner, and this morning it make NBC 4’s segment on cool local neighborhoods.

About a year ago we started work on Parkman Triangle, a thin strip of land on Parkman Avenue and Silver Lake Boulevard south of Sunset Boulevard. The micro-park, once a dreary patch of asphalt, now thrives.  We had some hits and misses with some plants, but now the space is lush–all those Christmastime rains sure [...]