Trees

Louisville Downtown Partnership experiments with porous rubber tree wells

In cities like Louisville where much of the urban area is covered in paving, dealing with stormwater runoff can be a major challenge that,...

All in a day’s work: Smoketown’s Preston Streetscape to be improved...

You can’t build Rome in a day, but you can certainly change a community. On Friday, October 17, South Preston Street will be closed from...

On The Agenda Of Tomorrow’s Metro Council

Metro Council will be meeting tomorrow, Thursday, February 25 at 6:00p.m. Here are a few items on the agenda. They might not all be...

Video: What A Green Metropolis Could Look Like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-5PyDIzY0 Check out this video titled Infrastructure In An Ecological Age of a theoretical Manchester, England after it has undergone a sustainability overhaul. The video was...

Trees Behaving Badly: Wind & Ice Edition

Louisville's urban forests are one of its greatest assets, but as we all know from the past 6 months of storms, they can also...

Ice Storm 2009: A Tour In Photos: Part V

Here's our last installment of photos from last week's ice storm. This time we're rounding out the set with icy details and close-ups and...

Tree Massacre At The National City Tower

Today and yesterday at the National City Tower (soon to be the PNC II?), crews massacred the many bradford pear trees one by one...

Windstorm Left Giant Lizards In Its Wake

In a classic Keep Louisville Weird moment, a tree stump we are guessing was left from the wreckage of Hurricane Ike has been carved...

Urban Trees: The Stench of Ginkgo Biloba

Butchertown has been known for the wafting smell of slaughtered pigs, unbearable on a hot summer day (thanks Swift!), but lurking on Washington Street...