“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...]
City Agriculture – November 7, 2019
Net Zero plant-filled Singapore pavilion for Dubai’s 2020 World … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – September 8, 2019
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...]
City Agriculture – May 17, 2019
Singapore Airlines reinventing airplane food with produce from a vertical farm https://www.newsweek.com/singapore-airlines-aerofarm-1376378 Agritech … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – December 15, 2016
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...]
City Agriculture – May 23, 2016
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...]
Recycled Solar: Double-Glazed Solar Hot Cap Cloche
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...]
Urban Agriculture
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...]
MyCityGardens: Networking Greater Boston Gardening
MyCityGardens.com is up and running for the season. We're a local yard sharing website that connects gardeners, mentors, and people with access to space, to neighbors who want to roll up their sleeves and dig in. If you have extra space … [Read more...]
Eating the City and Town: Todmorden and Beyond
http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2012S/Blank/PamWarhurst_2012S-320k.mp4 A few months ago, some people in Cambridge, MA were inspired by the example of Todmorden in the UK between Leeds and Manchester, a town that decided to grow as much … [Read more...]