EDENS LOST & FOUND, a four-hour PBS series, crosses America to showcase extraordinary stories of environmental rebirth in very different American cities and the visionary leaders transforming the urban landscape.

Featured in one program will be Greensgrow.org, a nationally recongnized leader in urban farming that is right in our back yard.

Greensgrow is a pro-bono client of Ampersand Design

More information about the series can be found on www.edenslostandfound.org and at you local PBS station.

Each one-hour program examines the environmental, economic and social issues that confront one of the country’s great cities and the innovative solutions developed there that can help solve problems that all America’s cities face. Stories and interviews with citizen activists, politicians, urban planners, and just plain folks who have labored long and hard to contribute to their city’s urban renaissance reveal how passion combined with innovative strategies can address the widespread problems facing many of America’s urban environments today.

EDENS LOST & FOUND begins with Chicago: City of the Big Shoulders hosted by NPR’s Scott Simon and continues the following week with Philadelphia: The Holy Experiment hosted by actor David Morse on May 25.th Airtimes do vary, so please check your local public television listings or www.edenslostandfound.org The series will resume in Fall 2006 with programs that feature Los Angeles and Seattle.

The companion book Edens Lost & Found: How Ordinary Citizens are Restoring Our Great American Cities from Chelsea Green Publishing Company offers readers in-depth stories or urban rebirth and resources for community activism.

Produced by award-winning television producers Harry Wiland and Dale Bell, Edens Lost & Found is the centerpiece of a extensive public campaign to target decision makers in industry and government, engage citizens in the challenge of urban sustainability, and share ideas that have proven effective and can be readily replicated.

“Currently 80 percent of the population in the United States lives in urban environments that have been built with little understanding of their natural environment and insufficient consideration of the need for open space, public parks, clean air and clean water,” says Harry Wiland.

“Fortunately, the tide is turning through the leadership of citizens who have activated tens of thousands of volunteers as well as the ingenuity of forward-thinking professionals in many different fields from architects to engineers and urban planners. Our goal in producing this documentary is to share creative solutions that can serve as inspiring models for cities and communities of all sizes across the country and to offer hope that dramatic changes can be achieved.”