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City Agriculture – January 21, 2021, the Happy Inauguration Issue

January 21, 2021 By gmoke Leave a Comment

A rooftop forest for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: agriculture, cityplanning, ecology, energy, environment, farming, food, gardening, logistics, sustainability

City Agriculture – October 15, 2020

October 15, 2020 By gmoke 3 Comments

Map of the public access fruit trees of Toronto http://www.mapto.ca/maps/the-fruit-trees-of-toronto Green transformation for a railway yard in St Petersburg, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: agriculture, community, cooking, ecology, energy, environment, food, gardening, gardens, sustainability

City Agriculture – May 30, 2020

May 30, 2020 By gmoke 3 Comments

“Tree-like” vertical farms for Brooklyn? https://www.framlab.com/glasir https://www.core77.com/posts/94000/Could-These-Tree-Like-Vertical-Farms-Be-the-Future-of-Urban-Farming Underground parking lot to organic mushroom farm in Paris … [Read more...]

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

City Agriculture – November 7, 2019

November 7, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

Net Zero plant-filled Singapore pavilion for Dubai’s 2020 World … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: agriculture, city planning, ecology, energy, environment, farming, food, gardening, green, sustainability

City Agriculture – September 8, 2019

September 8, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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 – May 17, 2019

May 17, 2019 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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

City Agriculture – December 15, 2016

December 16, 2016 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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 Leave a Comment

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

Recycled Solar: Double-Glazed Solar Hot Cap Cloche

April 29, 2015 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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 3 Comments

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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Sydney Rachael Levin-Epstein@SYDNEYRACHAEL_

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“Utter breakdown ... *it’s just not okay*” [emphasis original]

Cindy Friedman@CindyFriedmanMA

Earlier, I spoke at the #MACOVIDOversight hearing and voiced my concerns & the concerns of my colleagues and constituents. I then asked @MassGovernor what I believe was a straightforward question...and received a not-so-straightforward response.

Read my full statement below: 2

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In 2014, I was a clerk for the ME legislature's enviro committee and I'm flabbergasted by the arguments by progressive Reps (many of whom I respect) against making committee votes and testimony public. /1 #mapoli @act_on_mass @byChrisVan @statehousenews
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What conditions accounts for this?

H/T @carboncounts

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These process-oriented votes do indeed have a profound effect on the substance.

If your rep isn’t progressive on transparency and process, then they’re not that progressive.

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36 reps voted in favor of transparency today, with 122 reps opposed. Roll call below:

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