Urban Gardens

When I shot these photos of Patrick Blanc’s green walls, or  vertical gardens, of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, I didn’t realize then that, in addition to their beauty, green walls offered significant ecological benefits similar to, but not the…

In this day of IMs and Twitter, who says you can’t communicate with your plants? Take note of this ceramic planter with a chalkboard area for writing, well, whatever you feel like. I would probably use the area to remind…

Urban gardeners can join a new network of green-minded city dwellers experimenting in the creation of vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield, edible window gardens right in their own apartments.

Window Farms, the community-based, crowdsourced environmental design project of Britta Riley and Rebecca…

British designers, Adrian Allen and Tobias Wong, of the firm Suck UK, have cooked up a bit’o humor for the summer outdoor season with a witty barbeque made from a fire bucket and solar lights housed in a traditional mason jar.

The…

St. Mary’s Lots to Gardens, a Lewiston, Maine organization that uses sustainable urban agriculture to create access to fresh food, will co-host the 11th Annual Rooted in Community National Summer Conference with other food justice organizations, Cultivating Community in Portland and the Food…

Diagram courtesy of Green Home Huddle

Lawn and garden watering make up nearly 40% of total household water use during the summer months. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, a rain barrel can potentially save most homeowners about 1,300 gallons of water…

Three young German architects have created a new area of  architecture: arbo-architecture.

Ferdinand Ludwig and fellow architects, Oliver Storz and Hannes Schwertfeger, call their new specialty “building botany.” As part of this, the three men are building structures made from plants as…

For Sywawa, Dutch designer, Jan Melis, conceived this umbrella base that does double duty as a bucket to hold your Champagne on a bed of ice, as a container for your favorite plant, or maybe even a fruit bowl.

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Hungry Garden is a free new “geosocial” web resource for building and supporting local farm-to-fork food networks worldwide so consumers, restaurants, schools and institutions can find and purchase fresh local products and produce from local food sources within 50 miles…

Artist, Lisa Cheung, with one of her mobile allotment planting stations

A collective of UK artists and curators is maintaining the cutting-edge of environmental awareness and having fun in the process. 

They are members of Avant-Gardening, an arts and environment project aimed…