Letter to
all our friends, clients, supporters and fellow planners (February 13, 2009)
Our Mission Statement
“Environova is committed to sound planning principles that contribute
to quality communities for its citizens and to the preservation and enhancement
of their living environment”.
Stan Kochanoff of Falmouth, NS and John Morley of Truro, NS originally established Environova Planning Group Inc. under the name of “Horticultural & Recreational Consultants Ltd.” in 1973. Since its beginning, the company has been involved with providing landscape architectural services, recreation planning and arboricultural consulting services throughout the Maritime Provinces. The firm also provides consulting and landscape design services to MARITIME LANDSCAPE SERVICES LIMITED, an associated full service landscape company.
In 1994, the firm widened its range of expertise to accommodate a variety of Urban and Rural planning projects.
READ FULL HISTORY & BACKGROUND
What’s
New at Environova
Stan in the News
Saturday, Augst 14
Arborist: not enough attention paid to trees
Recent Environova Planning Projects (2009)
| • | Port Williams Community Park. Port Williams, NS |
| • | Cricket Park Renovation Design Weymouth, NS |
| • | Fanning Education Centre Outdoor Recreation Facility |
Major Tree Preservation and Large Tree Transplanting Projects MLS (2009-10)
| • | Moncton Zoo, Moncton, NB |
| • | Nova Scotia Community College, Leeds St. Campus, Halifax, NS |
| • | Nova Construction, Antigonish, NS |
| • | Luthi Project, Martins Point, NS |
| • | Codesco Consolidated Design and Construction Ltd. Halifax, NS |
| • | Coastal Woodlands and Tree Services Inc., Halifax, NS |
| • | Memorial Park, Town of Kentville, NS |
| • | University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB |
| • | St Martha’s Regional Hospital/ Nova Construction Antigonish, NS |
—Winter-Spring 2010—
| • | Stan spent 5 weeks working as a volunteer at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. He was selected as Dalhousie University’s alumnus of the month and featured in the spring newsletter. See Stan’s 2010 Vancouver Olympics Journey |
| • | Stan in now working as a volunteer for the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax |
| • | Environova sponsored the Atlantic Region’s first Tree Risk Assessor’s Certification course at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro in mid-April 2010 |
| • | Environova is working as a member of the Fenwick Tower Design Team as Landscape Consultants with Michael Napier MNA Architecture for Templeton Properties, Halifax, NS |
—Summer 2010—
| • | Stan completed his two year term as president of the ISA-Atlantic Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture and recently returned from Chicago where he delivered a paper “Planning a New Approach for Street Tree Planting” at the ISA international world tree conference. |
| • | Peggy Kochanoff’s fourth book; “You Can Be A Nature Detective” published by Mountain Press is being reprinted and a sequel to the book will be published soon. |
—NEWSLETTERS—
• Environova December 2009
• Maritime Landscape Services December 2009
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