Tag: going green

Business

City rethinks policy that quadruples landscaping costs

Landscaping companies’ in Claremont, California are reluctant to bid work due to the city’s new request that landscapers not use any chemicals or leaf blowers.

March 7, 2016

Design-Build

49ers’ Rooftop Goes Deep into ‘Going Green’

Media outlets are taking pictures at the 49ers’ stadium, but they’re not taking pictures of football players. In fact, the news doesn’t even have to do with anything inside the stadium – it’s all about what’s on the outside.

July 30, 2014

Design-Build

Are you really being ‘green’?

Everyone knows how to be sustainable and what “going green” means, but are you actually following through?

March 28, 2014

Business

Landscaper Sets Example For Customers To ‘Go Green’

Heads Up Landscape Contractors is helping customers go green by starting with its headquarters first. The company has recycled 7 million pounds of green waste and has captured 120,000 gallons of rainwater and snow each year to irrigate the landscape at its headquarters.

July 26, 2013

Business

Tips to Help Clients Go Green to Save Green

The Treeline Design Group has shared an infographic to help professionals and homeowners save money when it comes to landscaping. Follow these tips and learn how to keep a few extra dollars.

July 11, 2013

Business

How to make your business eco-friendly

Grass may be green, but the practices and techniques to get a lawn to look lush, green and healthy are often anything but. With more and more people taking on a more sustainable lifestyle, eco-friendly lawn care is a service that many consumers are clamoring for.

May 2, 2013

Design-Build

‘Going Green’ More Than a Fad

Buzz words like “going green” and “sustainable” are flying around companies as big as Microsoft all the way down to the mom-and-pop store down the street. But what does it all mean?

April 19, 2013

Business

Urban grass might be greener, but is it ‘greener’?

New research from the University of Cincinnati shows how some things you do to make your lawn green might not be conducive to “going green.” Amy Townsend-Small, a UC assistant professor of geology and geography, will present her research, “Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Urban Ecosystems,” at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting to be held April 9-13 in Los Angeles. The interdisciplinary forum is attended by more than 7,000 scientists from around the world and features an array of geography-related presentations, workshops and field trips.

April 17, 2013

Design-Build

Springdale, AR Serves as Great Host to Try Kubota Kommander

After a trip to Springdale, Arkansas, I got to witness first hand the new “Kubota Kommander” series. Springdale is home to one of the largest Kubota dealers in the country that hosted our group for a couple of days allowing us to drive, ride and experience the Kommander series.

April 11, 2013

Business

Modern Outdoor Power Products Mean Cleaner Air

Lawn mowers, chainsaws, weed trimmers and leaf blowers operate more cleanly and efficiently than they did even 10 years ago, and that’s a good thing.

March 12, 2013

Business

Belknap Landscape Achieves Concrete Paver Certification

Belknap Landscape Company has completed its Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute Certification.

March 7, 2013