by James MacAdam, Green Streets - Green Neighborhoods Program Manager
There’s a lot going on at WMG right now—I wanted to tell you about it because we’re often so busy that we forget to tell people what we’re up to, and because right now you have a rare opportunity to have a big effect on our work through a matching campaign. So here’s a personal view from my perspective in WMG’s Green Streets program, and a personal call for your support:
Here’s what I’m excited about these days: we just held a volunteer workshop to totally makeover a Tucson family’s front yard. 15 volunteers transformed it from a sterile, black-plastic and rock-laden heat island into a runoff-capturing garden of native plants, organic mulch, and (soon) living soil.