Urban Gardens

I love Swiss designer Dino Salvatico’s novel minimalist bird feeder, Spuntino, for its simplicity and wit. Constructed of two pieces of steel sheeting, a single piece of plastic, and a spoon. Available from the designer.

Get some green by going green. The United States government is offering tax incentives and credits to people who renovate their homes with energy-saving technologies and/or buy hybrid vehicles. These technologies usually save money, and with an added tax break, you’ll be raking in…

Seed, whose design is based on a water drop and a wheat seed, is a remote control centrifugal water pump designed to simplify and automate garden irrigation. Through the remote control one can set the watering time and duration, the amount of…

Woolly Pockets are flexible, breathable, and modular gardening containers available in two styles: those designed to be placed on horizontal surfaces, and those designed to be hung on walls for vertical gardening. Woolly Pockets can be used both indoors and out; they…

PNC (NYSE: PNC) has successfully installed a 2,380 square-foot living wall with 602 modular panels on the exterior of their Pittsburgh headquarters building, One PNC Plaza..  Each 2′x2′ panel has roughly 24 plants, so there’s approximately 14,448 plants covering the wall…

Using green roof technology on the streets of Brooklyn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis are growing tomatoes, broccoli, arugula, and parsley inside the bed of a 1986 Dodge half-ton pick-up. Undeterred by having no land of their own, the men created this…

Not too late to sign up for the annual Vancouver Green Roof Action Workshop, today, Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 2 – 5 pm at the BCIT Green Roof Research Facility, 555 Great Northern Way, Vancouver.

The 2009 Green Roof Action Workshop…

When planting a vegetable garden, here are five important “s” elements you’ll want to consider:

Sun
Fruiting vegetables (e.g., beans, tomatoes, peppers, squash, eggplant, cucumbers, etc.) need at least 6 hours of direct sun a day. All others can make do with…

Cayuga Medical Center, Restorative Garden

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced a new series of comprehensive online resource guides on sustainable design and planning. Created for national and local policymakers, government agencies, design professionals, planners and students, the guides include hundreds of project…

100 billion individual disposable pieces of plastic cutlery, according to some sources, are used and disposed of each year around the globe. In a landfill, these plastic utensils can take an estimated 500-1000 years to break down into smaller components.

Finnish Artist Lea…