Urban Gardens

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Monday, November 9th at 7pm, The Theater for the New City, will present Raising the Roof, a benefit for its Green Roof Project.

Actress and singer Tammy Grimes and actress Betsy von Furstenberg, both longtime friends of … Read More...

photo courtesy Southern Living

Out of the patch and onto city steps, patios, and terraces. It’s almost scary to see the carving creativity unleashed on these pumpkins. What have you done with yours? Send us your photos!

You can chisel … Read More...

The National Resources Defense Council, NRDC,  has announced its second annual Growing Green Awards to honor farmers, business leaders and promoters of sustainable food. A $10,000 cash prize will be awarded for extraordinary contributions that advance ecologically integrated farming practices, … Read More...

Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton

Gardening in Fall is entirely dependent on the weather. If there’s an Indian Summer, there is no better time of year to be out in the garden. While gardeners in warm areas will have more to … Read More...

The Ecopod en route to the ever after.

I wrote a while back about the ecological funeral trend in my post Going Green: A Sustainable Product to Die For, wherein I showcased a few green burial options, including … Read More...

Toronto street artist, provocateur, and now guerrilla gardener, Posterchild, created this planted flyer box:

“I create public installations (or ‘street art” pieces) that are both playful and political,” commented the artist on his blog. “I create my art to … Read More...

With a sod covered tabletop and a children’s seed project, Urban Gardens exhibited last month on the Green Block at the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce Green Business Committee’s Third Avenue Street Fair. The block consisted of vendors who provide green … Read More...

The UrbanGoGreen Expo takes place tomorrow, Saturday, October 24, from 10am-5pm at the 369th Harlem Armory, 40 W. 143rd Street at Lenox Avenue in New York City.

The green culture, business, career fair, and symposium promotes renewable energy, energy efficiency, … Read More...

The 36th edition of FIAC, brings together 180 modern and contemporary art galleries in Paris from October 22-25 at the Grand Palais, the Cour Carrée of the Louvre Museum, and in the Tuileries Garden.

For the fourth consecutive year, … Read More...

The world is experiencing the largest wave of urban growth in history. For the first time in history, more than half the world’s population is living in cities. By 2050, according to a United Nations estimate, the world’s cities will … Read More...