New York Times – November 5, 2008
By Anne Raver

Two gardens completed in the last month by the New York Restoration Project  -- one in Queens, by Walter Hood, a California landscape architect; the other in Harlem, by Sean Conway, a Rhode Island garden designer – demonstrate how sustainable technologies like rainwater collection and solar and wind power can be incorporated into landscapes that are varied enough to fill many needs.

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NY Observer – October 20, 2008
By Jillian Blume

Even in his childhood, Drew Becher, Executive Director of the New York Restoration Project (NYRP), loved the outdoors. When other kids joined the Little League, he cut the grass, weeded the flowerbeds, and trimmed the bushes.

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New York Magazine – October 20, 2008
By Wendy Goodman

Local Heroes. There are over 600 community green spaces in the city, from tidy little squares with one sole keeper to sprawling vegetable gardens tended by whole communities.

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Metropolitan Home – June 2008
By Susan Morgan

Curb Your Global Warming – Please! The partners in this broad-based collaborative effort in Los Angeles and New York City range from parks departments and corporate sponsors to teams of well-organized tree-huggers and backyard gardeners. The plan is simple, visionary and ambitious: Transform, beautify and green our cities by planting one million new trees.

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Manhattan Times – September 18, 2008
By Sarah Morgan

It was a brilliantly sunny afternoon; perfect for wading in the Harlem River. Surrounded by kids in wetsuits that looked like overalls attached to galumping brown galoshes, Akiima Price, head of Education and Programs for New York Restoration Project, was in her element.

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