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May 31, 2011
The rooftop garden of the Boldiston apartment in Melbourne, Australia, is an urban oasis filled with the homeowners’s collective finds, including an outdoor lamp sourced from Stockroom in Kyneton, “a birthday present from my lovely wife,”says Mark Boldiston.
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Category: Experiencing, Rooftop Gardens
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Tel Aviv-based product designer, Meirav Peled Barzilay, combines both light, nature, and sustainable design with her Photosynthesis Lamp, a customized hanging light fixture and “grow light” constructed of a metal grid with a vine at its base.
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Category: Containers and Pots, Finding, Lighting
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May 30, 2011
93 year-old Robert Horton, Jr., on his downtown Greenwich, CT patio.
My 93 year-old father-in-law is a dumpster diver. During one of his recent expeditions into the trash at his neighboring elementary school, he found metal file cabinets whose perfectly … Read More…
Category: Edible Landscaping, Greening, Raised Beds, Reclaimed & Recycled, Urban Agriculture
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May 27, 2011
Looking for a living wall or vertical garden system to screen your balcony while you grow veggies, fresh aromatic herbs, or flowers either indoors or out? The modular system is great for creating a small green wall or larger vertical … Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Edible Landscaping, Finding, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Green Walls, No-Dig Gardening, Rooftop Gardens, Vertical Gardens
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May 23, 2011
Photo by Robin Plaskoff Horton
Although I’m not a Feng Shui practitioner like my friend and fellow blogger, Ann Bingley Gallops of Open Spaces Feng Shui, I hear that water is the universal sign of abundance and anything that … Read More…
Category: Finding, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Reclaimed & Recycled, Water
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May 19, 2011
Diallo Design’s Segou Rocker weaves beautiful color into outdoor seating.
What’s drawing people outdoors these days? Perhaps it’s rise of the “staycation,” originally driven by the economic down turn, or the increasing number of individuals telecommuting from home, that has … Read More…
Category: Containers and Pots, Decks, Patios, & Paths, Finding, Furniture, Lighting, Reclaimed & Recycled
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May 16, 2011
Urban chicken raising has not only piqued the interest of many urban dwellers, it has arrived bearing some caché. While exploring this weekend’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair, I stumbled upon Raad’s modernist solar chicken coop for urban hens. This … Read More…
Category: Finding, Green & Sustainable, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture
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May 12, 2011
Intimate covered outdoor dining cabana beside pool at Brockington residence.
Not many marriages are truly sustainable these days. But the kind that P. Allen Smith creates are. The award-winning garden and lifestyle design specialist aims to “blur the lines between … Read More…
Category: Experiencing, Garden Design
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May 9, 2011
Mr. Green Bean greets customers at Little Rock’s River Market. He gave his number to one of my friends!
Travels have kept me away lately as you may have noticed, but I’m back and getting into the groove again. I … Read More…
Category: Finding
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