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City Agriculture – May 5, 2022

May 5, 2022 By gmoke

Zero emissions cherry orchard in New Zealand https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/20/100-zero-emissions-cherry-orchard/ Follow the Food series from the BBC and Corteva Agriscience How we might build a food utopia … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, cities, city planning, ecology, environment, food, gardening, sustainability

City Agriculture – September 8, 2019

September 8, 2019 By gmoke

How urban farms could solve future food problems https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2019/6/21/how-urban-farms-could-solve-future-food-problems Tenth of an acre permaculture … [Read more...]

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

Zero Net Energy – January 2016 edition

January 9, 2016 By gmoke

Greenbuild Unity Home - prefab, affordable net-zero home can be built in less than three days to LEED v4 Platinum and net zero-energy standards and with the largest collection of Cradle to Cradle (C2C) certified building products ever used … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: buildings, cities, ecology, energy, energy efficiency, engineering, environment, exergy, solar

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

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

Cities Scale: Boston Living with Water

February 25, 2015 By gmoke

Cities scale is where real climate change adaptation is taking place, now, whether or not we have national or international agreements on greenhouse gases. Cities and regions have to deal with weather emergencies and, it turns out, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, boston, cambridge, cities, climate-change, design, ecology, environment, mit, sea-level-rise, urban planning

Boston Can Learn Much from Other Cities in Transition – Even Belfast and Srebrenica

December 12, 2014 By andytarsy

  This fall, as a Senior Fellow in the McCormack Graduate School at UMASS Boston, I had the privilege of being an observer at an annual gathering of the Forum for Cities in Transition. The four day conclave was in Belfast, Northern … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: belfast, boston, cities, leadership, umass, umass-boston

Net Zero and Beyond

November 19, 2013 By gmoke

Cambridge, MA has been debating a net zero energy and/or emissions standard (http://www.netzerocambridge.org) for new buildings over 25,000 square feet since the Spring of 2013, partially because of an ecodistrict plan with MIT and others … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cities, climate-change, district heating, ecology, electricity, energy, environment, net zero, planning, renewables, solar

Reprogramming the City

September 22, 2013 By gmoke

There's a great exhibition at the Boston Society of Architects down by South Station called "Reprogramming the City" (http://bsaspace.org/exhibitions/reprogramming-the-city/). It is all about small but significant design tweaks for urban … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, boston, cities, design, ecology, environment

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