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Green Development Does Dallas

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:03:54 +0000

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. The design was…

NYC Urban Garden Event Today

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:37:09 +0000

Today, April 25, from 10 am to 4 pm, New York Restoration Project (NYRP) and the NYC Parks Department, along with presenting sponsor Organic Gardening magazine, invite New Yorkers to this annual, FREE outdoor festival that promotes community gardening, tree planting…

Sitting on the Garden Throne

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:39:33 +0000

“I’d like to garden, but I don’t have any space for one.” Or, I’d like a garden, but I don’t have time to water it.” Like many people who have “aha” moments in the bathroom, Charles McCarthy conceived of this one and didn’t…

Getting High in Self-Sufficient Green Skyscrapers

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:03:22 +0000

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,…

Seeing the Forest Through the Living Room

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:00:58 +0000

Green walls enclose living area of Elot House

The owner of this urban garden house expressed his dream about living in a “forest” setting amidst the urbanized city of Singapore and his architect, Chang Yong Ter of Chang Architects, interpreted the dream. In…

Vision for Edible City Gaining Ground

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:42:03 +0000

The soon to be released film, Edible City, tells the story of real people making real change right in their urban backyards. The film aims to provoke critical thought, further the dialogue surrounding food and our food system, and ultimately inspire…

Urban Gardens Will Be Needed in Haiti

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:43:09 +0000

Prior to last Tuesday’s devastating earthquake, Haitians were busy at work building flood protections and establishing urban gardens. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) had 23 programs for growing food in the region most affected by the quake, including areas in…

Capturing Rain Elegantly

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:00:33 +0000

A Drop of Water is a rain barrel that makes saving water very easy by providing a built-in watering can that fills automatically when it rains. This way, the user doesn’t have to fill the can with tap water, but instead uses ‘free’…

Call for Creating Productive Urban Green Space

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:15:21 +0000

Terreform One, a non-profit design group that promotes green design in cities, is launching the One Prize Award–Mowing to Growing: Rethinking the American Lawn: an international design competition for creating productive green space in cities.

Through their creative projects and outreach efforts,…

Echos of Eco in Mexico City’s Vertical Park

Robin Plaskoff Horton — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:10:38 +0000

They paved paradise then put up a…vertical park.

Mexican architect Jorge Hernandez de la Garcia has designed a modular, highly structural and flexible vertical park intended to help reduce pollution and deal with overpopulation issues. The tower utilizes vertically stacked solar panels…