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City Agriculture – July 31, 2022

July 31, 2022 By gmoke

The French Parliament recently approved a new law requiring all new commercial buildings to partially have their roofs covered with plants or solar panels.
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/05/new-law-in-france-green-roofs-on-new-commercial-buildings/

Villa M – living walled building in Paris
https://triptyque.com/en/project/villa-m-en/
https://www.v2com-newswire.com/en/newsroom/categories/commercial-architecture/press-kits/2001-01/villa-m-takes-amazon-to-paris-with-tropical-building
https://www.treehugger.com/villa-m-paris-triptyque-architecture-5271129
https://inhabitat.com/green-building-design-was-inspired-by-the-amazon-rainforest/

Foundational Agrivoltaic Research for Megawatt Scale [FARMS] – US DOE funding large scale combined farm and solar projects
https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/05/funding-notice-foundational-agrivoltaic-research-for-megawatt-scale-farms/

USDA now has an Office of Urban Agriculture
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2022/5/10/5-focus-points-for-the-usdas-new-office-of-urban-agriculture
email for more information or to comment: UrbanAgricultureFederalAdvisoryCommittee@usda.gov

Another vertical forest finished, this one in Huanggang, China
https://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/project/easyhome-huanggang-vertical-forest-city-complex/
https://inhabitat.com/vertical-forest-apartment-has-an-astonishing-404-trees/

Rotterdam’s roofscape – greening 10 million square feet of rooftops
https://www.c40.org/case-studies/cities100-rotterdam-mitigation-meets-adaptation-on-rotterdam-s-rooftops/
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f082078d610926644d22e00/t/621e3b2a1ee23c373149cac0/1646148404157/URBANISTEN_Rotterdam_Rooftop_Potential_EN.pdf
https://www.fastcompany.com/90755913/inside-rotterdams-quest-to-green-10-million-square-feet-of-rooftops

Green walls for air purification
https://www.naava.io/en/
https://inhabitat.com/clean-the-air-in-your-home-with-green-walls-from-naava/

NYC AgTech Week 2022 will take place September 26 to October 1st 2022
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2022/6/23/nyc-agriculture-collective-thought-for-food-partner-for-nyc-agtech-week-2022

Bringing food production back to cities
https://www.meed.com/bringing-food-production-back-to-cities

Roof garden for an automobile factory in Turin, Italy – flowers and a test track
https://www.treehugger.com/biodiverse-roof-garden-added-to-iconic-lingotto-factory-in-turin-5496690

Australian food insecurity
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/28/australia-ill-prepared-for-food-insecurity-driven-by-war-and-climate-crisis-former-defence-leaders-say
Editorial Comment: The war in Ukraine and Russia has made an already precarious world food supply even worse. The Russsian invasion in February 2022 is causing death by starvation around the world at the end of June. Even an “advanced nation” like Australia now may not be able to feed itself.

Creativity breaking out on European rooftops
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/european-creative-rooftop-network-designs-public-spaces-for-roofs/
European Creative Rooftop Network
https://ecrn.city
Rooftopedia – compendium of projects
https://www.rooftopedia.ecrn.city

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