August 15, 2010
Do you love gardening on auto-pilot? The Aussies have a cool product that has made its way Stateside. The CLEV-A 9 Pot garden is a sustainable, vertical growing system which uses a solar powered, gravity fed, automated watering system to … Read More…
Category: Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Edible Landscaping, Finding, Great Finds, Herb Gardens, Solar Energy
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July 1, 2010
Designed to be installed on every street corner like any bottle recycling depository, the Ecobox would reward responsible citizens by offering them a plant in exchange for depositing all kinds of recyclable objects, from glass bottles to aluminium cans.
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Category: Green & Sustainable, Greening, Reclaimed & Recycled, Solar Energy
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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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April 1, 2010
Designed by Paola Navone for Italian manufacturer EMU, this luminescent pouf, part of the Ivy line, is constructed of ironed metal sheet metal and fitted with a photovoltaic device which enables it to collect and store solar energy. At … Read More…
Category: Finding, Furniture, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Lighting, Solar Energy
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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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