Amy Verel

Leidsche Rijn in the Netherlands is an entirely new addition to the city of Utrecht that’s still under construction – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidsche_Rijn
I did a case study on it in grad school (self plug 🙂 http://courses.umass.edu/greenurb/2006/averel/index.html

With two years of professional work, I’d stick with that. If you have one or two really outstanding pieces from your student portfolio that would really add something new (demonstrate technical abilities/project work areas distinct from your professional projects, or a design area you’re really passionate about), you can always put those in at the…[Read more]

Thanks Steve and Kerri – just started messing with it but this might be my favorite app EVER – exactly what I need a smartphone to do too!

Will do. Just found this tree app from Audubon – little pricey but no doubt worth it! Think I’ll see how I like the two Mark suggested below (just downloaded) before coughing up 10 bucks though.
 
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/books_and_reference/audubon-trees_lbhz.html

Thanks Mark – those look like great finds!

Thanks – I’ll try those! Dirr app would be AWESOME – hopefully someday! Wonder if there are other good tree/plant apps in the interim?

For productivity, I found Rehearsal Assistant voice recorder so that I don’t lose all of the ‘mental notes’ I find myself making during my traffic-y, 30 to 60 minutes each way car commute to work.  It’s a nice way to (sort of) recover some of the productivity I lost when I gave up a train commute, and it lets you make little voice memos without…[Read more]

Thanks Leni – great pictures! Love to see more if you have them on Flickr or something. Really wish I could have made it – hate it when job gets in the way of career! 😀

Haha good point Jason – personally I could use some 4-wheel drive landscape these days, but that might incur the standard jokes about plowing snow in the winter…
 
Can’t wait to dig into the guidelines myself, especially since I was originally under the impression that they were $35, but that was just for the hard copy – the free pdf download…[Read more]

Ditto on the congratulations! I’m very surprised to hear that about your bosses; every RLA I’ve ever known or worked with/for has used it in their title on their correspondence.  I really can’t think of a good reason NOT to use it, particularly when you’re using other, lesser certifications (no offense to LEED and AICP, I’m just drawing a…[Read more]

My thoughts exactly on HuffPo, Noah, so much so that I don’t read it at all unless a particular article (usually commentary like this,written by someone I follow through other sources) comes to my attention.  For that reason I wondered about the potential drawbacks of TCLF using HuffPo, which has a credibility problem with many people, as a…[Read more]

Congrats on the interview! One question I like (and one that has worked for me in the past) is to ask ‘what are the main projects in the pipeline that I could expect to be working on?,’ which is a polite, wholly acceptable way of asking ‘why are you bringing on a new person?’  This simultaneously invites the interviewer to expand on a topic they…[Read more]

Looking at all of the recent discussions, technology is well represented but not overwhelming other topics. Obviously it plays an extremely important role in our profession, particularly to young professionals on the job market, but I don’t agree that it’s dominating us or that we’re losing what’s important. We’re simply acclimating to the…[Read more]

Like! 😛

Actually the one thing I would say about the trees is that they could actually be a little bit more regular in form, especially the ginkgo and redbud. Obviously getting some irregularity to the form is necessary to achieve more realism, but the twigs sticking furthest out (mostly on the ginkgo) look a little too sparse and maybe a little…[Read more]

Uh oh, does this mean all ISA arborists would automatically have to get the Utility Worker Certification? 😛

yikes! someone needs a snack to get the blood sugar up! Even if it *WAS* simply a selective harvest of Craigslist (which it isn’t), that would be still be a useful service since CL is a pain to search through. But jeez dude, have a fig newton or something…