Doyle Park Block Day
The Doyle Park Block Party & Pop-up park was a great success! We’re excited about our partnership with the Southwest Boston CDC, the Solomon Foundation, and DCR to design a new low maintenance park for the Hyde Park community. Thank you to Hyde Park Community for...
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Offshoots is Looking for a Lead Gardener!
Lead Gardener, Maintenance Manager Offshoots Inc. is landscape architecture and installation firm looking for a full-time Lead Gardener to take over management and care of our maintenance accounts. Candidate must be an experienced gardener, horticulturalist or...
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CASE STUDY: Chlorinated Solvents Project Name: Travis Air Force Base (Klein, 2011) (Doucette et al 2013) (Parsons, 2010) Caption: Gaseous TCE releases from trees and soil surface into the atmosphere were measured on this site to determine the significance of...
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PHYTO – Case Study – Ford Motor Company Factory
Project Name: Ford Motor Company Factory (Barac et al 1999) Location: Genk, Belgium Scientists: Tanja Barac (a); Nele Weyens (a); Licy Oeyen (a); Safiyh Taghavi (b); Daniel van der Lelie (b); Dirk Dubin (c); Marco Spliet (d); Jaco Vangronsveld (a)...
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Prepping Site for a Phytobuffer
Offshoots, Inc is preparing a phytobuffer site. At a family-owned natural stone supplier, Offshoots's team is taking down a small set of Spruce to clear the way for poplars to protect the site and groundwater from a petroleum leak that occurred on the site. High...
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Testing Heavy Metal Remediation Possibilities of Biomass Production Crops
Article from the European Commission Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS). E.U. has funded Phyto2Energy Initiative studies potential of using plants grown for biomass to also remediate pollutants from the soil. Chelators (soil additives) may...
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