On May 26, 2011 Cityscapes welcomed members of Boston Green Tourism to our lush greenhouses and living wall showroom in the heart of the Back Bay.  Boston Green Tourism is an organization that strives to encourage and educate visitor-industry professionals to make their businesses greener.  Janice Goodman, President and Owner of Cityscapes, spoke about Living Walls and the many benefits they can provide to make your building cleaner and greener.  Annette Rinaldi of Wedding Flowers By Annette provided gorgeous flower arrangements to brighten up the atmosphere. Take a look at some pictures from the event provided by Dave LaChappelle of Amore Photography.

Janice Goodman of Cityscapes

Left: Alyce Crowley of Cityscapes

Left: Executive Director of Boston Green Tourism Dan Ruben

Janice Goodman and Annette Rinaldi of Wedding Flowers by Annette

Beautiful Arrangement provided by Annette Rinaldi

Bright Pink Peony Arrangement

For more information regarding:

Boston Green Tourism click here  http://www.bostongreentourism.org/

Wedding Flowers by Annette click here http://www.weddingflowersbyannette.com/

Amore Photography click here  http://www.amorephotography.com/

From November 17th -19th, 2010 Cityscapes Living Walls were on display at the Seaport World Trade Center for Build Boston’s 1st Annual Innovation Pavilion.  Our Living walls were chosen as one of Boston’s most cutting edge innovative building products.  Each of the products that were selected have only been in the market for 3 years or less. Build Boston is the Northeast’s largest regional convention and tradeshow for engineers, architects, contractors, interior designers, and other industry professionals with an annual 15,000 attendees each year. Below are some images of our living walls that were on display at the event.

For more information about Build Boston: www.buildboston.com

Janice Goodman of Cityscapes recently donated an array of fall plants to Ms. Pforr’s kindergarden class at North Pembroke Elementary School.  Janice taught the children about roots, stems, leaves, and how plants grow.  She also helped them plant the foliage for their day of gardening.  Check out the pictures from this fun event below!

September 28th, 2010 - Janice Goodman helped teach students from Cambridgeport School in Cambridge, MA how to plant a 7 foot Edible Living Wall.  The children used swiss chard, peppers, cabbages and rosemary as their choices for the edible plants for the wall.  Cityscapes loaned the 7 foot frame to the school for a week so they could use it to display at the CitySprouts School Garden Celebration at the Tobin School this past Saturday.  Please read the article from Cambridge Day by Monica Velgos and click on the posted article links below for more information and some images from the event.

More Links:

http://cportgarden.blogspot.com/

http://www.cambridgeportpto.org/

On April 27 ^th at the Bronx County Court House in New York, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. together with Janice Goodman, President of Cityscapes in Boston, George Irwin, CEO of Green Living Technologies in New York, and Steve Ritz, teacher at Discovery High School in the Bronx, NY, presented Discovery High School students with their Nationally Recognized Employment Certifications in a ceremony highlighting the youngest citizens in America to have completed an extensive green roof and wall certification program.

From the Left: Presentors Steve Ritz, Ruben Diaz Jr., George Irwin, and Janice Goodman at the ceremony.

Janice Goodman, had contracted Green Living Technologies to train and certify her key staff members as green wall and green roof installers. While working out the details of the training, George Irwin and Jan Goodman had decided to fund this training and certification (via scholarships) to several outstanding horticulture students – two from Silver Lake Regional in Kingston and ten from the Discovery High School in the Bronx. Thirteen Cityscapes’ employees also earned their certifications.  The training took place on February 26th and 27th at Cityscapes’ office and greenhouses.

The certification will give these students a chance to get ahead and employed anywhere in the green industry having completed a rigorous academic training session and completing a professional installation to the satisfaction of the leader to the industry who also has college programs, workforce development, and other training initiatives.

The concept of growing good food, good jobs and good citizens by tapping into one of our greatest wasted resources – urban youth – came from Steve Ritz, a teacher with an impressive dedication to his students and a track record of achievement. At his current teaching position at the Discovery High School in the Bronx, he is working with students in one of the most challenging environments in New York City. Ritz just oversaw the installation of a living, edible green wall that was donated by Green Living Technologies.  He was also the sole recipient of the 2010 US EPA Award, the highest award given to a citizen from the EPA. 

The students from Discovery High School and Silverlake High School along with Jan Goodman, Steve Ritz and George Irwin.

To celebrate the 40th Birthday of Earth Day, Cityscapes provided Boston Properties with a state of the art, stainless steel, vertical Living Wall.  It was showcased in the Center Court of the Boston Prudential Center from April 12th through April 22nd.

Cityscapes Inc teamed up with EZ Care Technologies of Saugus, MA to create this stunning living wall using EZ Care’s unique labor saving Water Grip Growing Media which increases plant stability and water retention. 

Janice Goodman of Cityscapes and George Irwin of Green Living Technologies teamed up on February 26th – 27th to provide ten students from Discovery High School in the Bronx, NY, two students from Silver Lake High School in Kingston, MA, and Cityscapes employees with an extensive two day training session to become Green Roof and Green Wall Certified.  The training was led by George Irwin (below) and the venue was provided by Cityscapes up in our gorgeous Greenhouse.

Together we designed and built a beautiful 6′ x 8′ green wall with the Cityscapes leaf logo incorporated into it!  We chose 4″ schefflera arboricola, philodendron brazil and philodendron neon as the foliage to use in our wall.  Please take a look at the following images of the wall-in-progress during the: planting, installation, and the stunning final result.

To see more of Green Living Technology’s work go to www.agreenroof.com.