July 2, 2010
Designed by Nicholas Groves-Raines of Groves-Raines Architects as an extension to the garden at Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh, this sensually curving composting shed includes both a composting area and garden store.
The structure is constructed entirely from industrial concrete reinforcing bar … Read More…
Category: Composting, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Greening, Reclaimed & Recycled
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June 28, 2010
Welcome the itinerant gardener, not the one who travels from plot to plot, but the one whose community gardens travel from spot to spot. We’ve written about mobile gardens before, but these self-contained gardens go beyond being simply plant-growing mobile … Read More…
Category: Community Gardens, Container Gardening, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Greening, Hydroponics, Raised Beds, Reclaimed & Recycled, Rooftop Gardens, Urban Agriculture
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May 28, 2010
Fancy feathering your nest with a pet chicken inside your co-op instead of her coop? You can, well, put the lady in diapers.
Yes, that’s right, there are diapers for chickens. I learned this and and many other practical … Read More…
Category: Community Gardens, Creating, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Urban Agriculture
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May 19, 2010
Scheduled to break ground in early 2011, Forwarding Dallas, the product of a collaboration between Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov, will run “off the grid,” acting as a working model of sustainability for cities around the globe.… Read More…
Category: Community Gardens, Composting, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Green Walls, Greening, Hydroponics, Irrigation, Permaculture, Rain Gardens, Rooftop Gardens, Sky Planters, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
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March 9, 2010
As its designers describe it, this skyscraper “is a vertical park that rises into the sky, a peaceful place where, in the middle of the hectic city, on the 22nd floor there is room for birds chirping, rustling of leaves, … Read More…
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Community Gardens, Edible Landscaping, Green & Sustainable, Green Roofs, Green Walls, Greening, Irrigation, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
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