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City Agriculture – May 17, 2019

May 17, 2019 By gmoke

Singapore Airlines reinventing airplane food with produce from a vertical farm https://www.newsweek.com/singapore-airlines-aerofarm-1376378 Agritech … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: agriculture, ecology, environment, food, gardening, green, sustainability, urbanplanning

MIT Solve Coastal Communities Challenge

June 7, 2018 By gmoke

How can coastal communities mitigate and adapt to climate change while developing and prospering? https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/coastal-communities Challenge deadline July 1, 2018 Challenge Overview Over 30% of humanity lives near … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: agriculture, beaches, coastal development, ecology, environment, fisheries, landscaping, mit, oceans, urban design

City Agriculture – April 21, 2017

April 21, 2017 By gmoke

An apartment filled with plants http://modernfarmer.com/2016/07/summer-rayne-oakes/ Daytonian in Manhattan - "The stories behind the buildings, statues and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating.” Can’t have a viable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, city, design, ecology, energy, environment, gardens, planning

City Agriculture – December 15, 2016

December 16, 2016 By gmoke

Guizhou – Mountain Forest Hotel: a vertical forest hotel so green that it may also purify the surrounding air http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/portfolios/guizhou-10-thousand-peaks-valley-project/ Paris “Mille Arbres” or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, cities, ecology, environment, gardening

City Agriculture – May 23, 2016

May 24, 2016 By gmoke

Skyfarm - modular vertical grow structure http://www.rsh-p.com/projects/skyfarm/ http://inhabitat.com/wind-powered-vertical-skyfarms-look-to-a-more-sustainable-future-for-farming/ AccorHotels, which includes Sofitel, Novotel and Motel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, ecology, environment, food, gardening, urban planning

City Agriculture – December 24, 2015 – Happy Merry New and Bah Humbug Edition

December 24, 2015 By gmoke

Homefarm - a conceptual proposal for the next generation of urban retirement housing. It presents a living and farming typology for Singapore (or elsewhere) that combines apartments and facilities for seniors with vertical urban … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, cities, design, ecology, environment, gardens, sustainability

MA Food Plan

October 28, 2015 By gmoke

Massachusetts has released its food plan, only the third in the last 40 years. You can see it at http://www.mafoodplan.org http://www.mapc.org/sites/default/files/MAFoodPlanGoals.pdf Public comment is invited, email wpitcoff@mapc.org … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, environment, farms, fishery, food, gardens, massachusetts, solar-energy

UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program

July 2, 2015 By gmoke

We currently have 600 students registered in our UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program. If you are interested in this 15 credit UMass degree, see: https://stockbridge.cns.umass.edu/SFF-Certificate AND..... Our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, business, education, farming, food, industry, umass

Recycled Solar: Double-Glazed Solar Hot Cap Cloche

April 29, 2015 By gmoke

I was cleaning out my storeroom the other day and came across another recycled solar device that I was fooling with a few years ago. A one liter clear plastic bottle makes a good hot cap or cloche when you cut the bottom off it. Plant a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, ecology, environment, gardening, solar

Urban Agriculture

March 9, 2015 By gmoke

Here's the text of a presentation I did March 4, 2015 at Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's Building Energy conference in Boston, MA. This was the first time the conference addressed urban agriculture. Everybody eats and it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, architecture, boston, cities, design, environment, food, gardening, Milan

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