Meg Whitmer Landscape Architect LLC

Every day has been Earth Day for me for the last 40+ years!

How to Ditch the Earth Day Lip Service A psychotherapist shares how to move from inertia to action with an eye to climate justice.

Bravo to my friend Xavier Cortada, for his TED talk about engaging community in climate action through ecoart. I had the pleasure of working with him in 2009 on the Treasure Coast Reclamation Project. I helped coordinate community engagement events in three coastal communities, recruiting students and volunteers to collect and install grids of mangroves at public facilities. That yearlong ecoart project inspired me to focus on coastal ecosystem design for climate resilience. Since then I have had the pleasure of working with Xavier on two botanical garden projects. His work is immersive, performative, inclusive and inspiring.

A creative approach to community climate action When he learned of the threat that rising sea levels posed to his coastal hometown of Miami, Florida, eco-artist Xavier Cortada founded a movement around beautifully designed elevation markers highlighting the risk of flood damage. The collaborative art project quickly mobilized action -- and excite...

My way of cultivating inspiration to live in today's world is guided by living a regenerative footprint, an open heart for community, and the passion to build resilience everywhere.

The Upside of COVID - The Return to Outdoor Living After more than two years of incredible losses and ongoing upheaval of the COVID pandemic, there have been some gifts in the radical changes we are going through. How has the way we live, learn, work and seek healing in our daily lives transformed us for the better?

To all my friends in the Triangle, be sure to check out the upcoming farm tour at Haw River Mushrooms. I went on a tour in Sept and now I’m part of their farmers market team! Shrooms are the best meat substitute. Learning how they are grown at the farm is fascinating and worth the tour.

We're opening the barn doors Tuesday, 11/15 at 5:30 PM for a farm tour. Come see how we grow, from sawdust to compost, and how we've GROWN from a pile of inoculated logs in the woods to an indoor facility that produces 1,000lbs of mushrooms each week. Tickets at www.hawrivermushrooms.com/events

H. Drew Lanham is one of my favorite nature writers, and a fellow southerner from Georgia. His perspective on his backyard wilderness is beautiful and totally present, a state of mind I try to adopt wherever I am.

My Wild-Like Refuge – J. Drew Lanham During the pandemic lockdown, J. Drew Lanham’s backyard, a newly sanctioned “wild-like refuge,” comes to life as he notices the wildlife that inhabits the nearby faraway.

Big thanks to my friend Edie Widder and the ORCA team for their work educating citizens about ways to restore and protect marine ecosystems and coastal water quality.
Living shorelines are vital to our estuaries and coastal habitats. Not only do they improve water quality, but they also act as a natural barrier for erosion control.

The ORCA Minute: Let's talk about buffered shorelines Buffered shorelines, or buffer zones, help to lessen the adverse affects of human activity on water quality.A vegetative zone consisting of native plants hel...

Finally some leadership to care for the next generation!

Heinrich Introduces Living Schoolyards Act To Create Unique, Healthy Learning Opportunities | U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) introduced the Living Schoolyards Act that will...

If only everyone was this kind….

Jacqueline Nyetipei Kiplimo did something that stunned the world during the 2010 Zheng-Kai Marathon when she witnessed a disabled competitor struggling to drink water who was a double amputee. Instead of seeing her moment to run ahead of this struggling athelete, she ran along side of him from the 6.2 mile mark to the 23 mile mark (10km mark to the 38km mark), helping him drink water at all of the watering stations. The aide that she so compassionately provided her fellow competitor slowed her run time down and caused her to lose her first place position and place 2nd in the race — costing her the win and the $10,000 cash prize.

Jacqueline Nyetipei Kiplimo showed the world that day that to her, being compassionate and helping one another was more important than winning a race that she had been preparing for her entire life. Now this is what a true leader looks like, one that never leaves someone disadvantaged behind.

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Bravo to my dear friend Elizabeth (Beth) Miller, project director for . Each concept addresses important changes to this significant multi-functional transportation corridor. Truly a complete street!

Comments Due: Shape the Future of Pennsylvania Avenue After several years of intensive study and community planning, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) along with federal and local partners released its new vision for Pennsylvania Avenue …

"Part of my mission is beauty, and part is to create sculpture that rises above politics and social power to become a touchstone for everyone who happens by." Patrick Dougherty.

Patrick Dougherty is one of my favorite sculptors. I've experienced several of his stickwork sculptures and each one is a uniquely memorable experience. In Jan 2020 I had the pleasure of volunteering at McKee Botanical Garden in Vero Beach FL for the installation of 'Grand Central', a stickwork sculpture weaving through a grove of ginormous Royal Palms. It was an amazing experience. If you're fortunate to live anywhere near where his work has been commissioned, I highly recommend volunteering during the installation process. All of his sculptures are intended to be constructed by and with volunteers. His installation process is well organized, relaxing, and meditative. As you weave saplings into a unique, whimsical structure that emerges over a 5-7 day period, you will come to appreciate playing with sticks in a whole new way. truly is a participatory art experience that engages the community.

Orion Magazine - Beautiful Impermanence: An Interview with Sculptor Patrick Dougherty Unlike most sculptors, Patrick Dougherty makes things that are meant not to last. And yet, a tremendous amount of work, hard physical work, careful

I owe my 40-year career as a landscape architect to Beatrix Farrand, for laying the groundwork for women landscape architects. She and Ellen Biddle Shipman were my role models as professional garden designers and horticulturists within the broader profession of landscape architecture. Great work, long-time clients, leaving a wonderful legacy of work for us all to learn from.

Meet the unsung heroine of the nation’s most celebrated gardens Beatrix Farrand’s life is like a story line from HBO’s ‘The Gilded Age.’

Vertical Harvest was in its capital campaign phase when I lived in Jackson Hole WY (2009-2012) and I was an early donor. This amazing project has not only surpassed all expectations but has also gained national attention as a great model for social impact businesses. I urge all business owners take a few minutes to read this and consider a new business approach: 'cultivating' good employees.

Reuniting Humanity & Work — the Solve for the Labor Shortage Amid a national labor shortage, how do we reestablish dignity in employment?