Going Green on Park(ing) Day

Lilliana Dones and myself are working on Park(ing) Day, which is yearly event, being held on Friday, September 17 this year. From the Park(ing) Day website, it's described as "an annual, worldwide event that inspires city dwellers everywhere to transform metered parking spots into temporary parks for the public good."


So far we have the Miami Parking Authority (MPA), the NET office and Commissioner Marc Sarnoff's office in on it. We aren't sure of all the details yet, but we'll keep you posted as we get closer to the event.

We don't know yet if the MPA is donating spaces or if people will have to feed the meters.

As many of us arrived yesterday morning at Grove Isle for the Bed Race press conference, people were talking about how beautiful the surroundings were -- how the bay just comes up to greet you and how lovely the grounds are and I said, "Well, listen to our next project. Forget about all these beautiful surroundings, we want you to lay in the street for our next event! We want you to actually set up camp in the gutter!" And then I explained Park(ing) Day.

The photos you see here are from Park(ing) Days around the country.