Urban Gardens

In the refrain from one her most famous songs, Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell sang:

Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking … Read More…

The folks at Berkeley, California’s Boost Labs came up with the concept of do-it-yourself water and energy savings solutions when they were looking for easy to install, simple to use products for their own homes. Their search resulted in some … Read More…

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Illustration: Guillermo Munro for the China Daily.

In response to its growing urbanization, China is reinventing the “garden city” concept in order to create space for both its urban and its displaced rural citizens. Every year, more than 15 million … Read More…

Along Brooklyn, New York’s polluted Gowanus Canal, there’s a garden that merges horticulture, permaculture, and heritage craft making. Last Spring, two environmentally engaged Brooklyn artists planted a terraced broomcorn garden along the canal. Funded by a regrant from the … Read More…