SeedTabs Get You Growing With Your Morning Coffee

May 16, 2013

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Grab your morning cup of coffee, then toss some seeds on your way to work. San Francisco company SeedTabs is collaborating with local java spots to sell little folded packets of organic seeds they hope will inspire people to spread … Read More…

Guerrilla Gardener Plants Human Rights Statements

April 1, 2013

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On Fairfield Road, London, for Dallas.

In the past week while the US Supreme Court debated the future of same-sex marriage, 2.7 million Facebook users exchanged their profile avatars for the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) pink-on-red equal sign. This morning Read More…

Urban Hacktivism Reinventing Public Spaces

January 14, 2013

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Florian Rivière, Wheelbench, Vienna, September 2012

You might call Florian Rivière a guerrilla urbanist. Much in the way guerrilla gardeners take possession of underutilized, sometimes offbeat, public spaces to plant gardens, Rivière–a self-proclained “urban hacktivist”– reinvents and diverts public spaces … Read More…

Growing Your Own Seed Money

January 11, 2013

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Money may not grow on trees, but you can grow money. They look almost like real pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters…but this money actually grows into something when you spend it.

Seed Money are hand-illustrated and letterpress printed ”coins” embedded … Read More…

Pothole Gardener Commits Illicit Acts of Gardening

May 10, 2012

UK pothole gardener extraordinaire, Steve Wheen, recently touched ground in Milan to plant 14 of his ubiquitous small-scale gardens during Milan Design Week. Italian auto manufacturer Lancia, who recently launched a new range of eco cars and was … Read More…

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