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Portland Wall Gardens
The Oregonian

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The Oregonian gives us this piece on a few of Portland's urban wall gardens, and makes a good point in the process: wall gardens are like green roofs that you can see and enjoy. Besides being beautiful, they help keep heat in in the winter, insulate walls to keep interiors cool in the summer, and provide "evaporative cooling" if you just happen to be strolling by. Nice.

 
 

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Adding to the list of benefits are insulation from noise, absorbing heat and storm-water runoff, and of course, view improvement.

Check out the rest of the article here.

Images: Motoya Nakamura (top) and Mike Davis for The Oregonian

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I like that!

posted by Lizzykewl on June 11th 2009 at 3:08pm
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Through the years I've seen the most beautiful pictures of Oregon yard landscapes. Must be a great place to live.

posted by baileyb on June 11th 2009 at 3:17pm
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Interesting, funky, colorful, creative...everything I love about Portland.

posted by terrafaith on June 11th 2009 at 3:20pm
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