Month: December 2017
New Year brings new direction and new executive director at the TKF Foundation
Some exciting changes are afoot here at the TKF Foundation – ones that will see us shifting our focus and digging deeply into the network of Open Spaces we have worked to help cultivate over the past two-plus decades. A central part of these changes is our welcoming of Erin Robertson as our new executive…
At National League of Cities Conference, a budding interest in urban greenspaces
We were on the ground—and the agenda—at one of the largest conferences for city leaders in the US. Following, some soundbites on what we learned. Recently, Jay Graham, FASLA and long-time TKF advisor, traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, where more than 4000 municipal leaders from throughout the country had convened for the 2017 City…
New Year brings new direction and new executive director at the TKF Foundation
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Dec. 11, 2017 —The TKF Foundation, which supports and advocates for the creation of meaningful urban greenspaces, has appointed Erin Robertson as its new Executive Director. Robertson will take over for Mary Wyatt, who is retiring after more than two decades with the Foundation. “We’re thrilled to have Erin taking on the executive…
What do we mean by “open”?
Quite a few things, really—good things. At Nature Sacred, we’ve honed a unique formula to infuse greenspaces into urban communities in the name of improved health, wellbeing and unity. At its core lies an ethos centered around being “open”. And let’s face it, the term open is a bit, well, open. Let’s put a finer point…