For Your Bottom Line: Living Seating

April 4, 2010

Now that we’ve experienced living roofs–aka green roofs–and living walls–aka green walls–aka vertical gardens, all which grow something living over an otherwise concrete or plain surface, it’s time to for living furniture, not to be confused with green furniture which … Read More…

Vertical Gardens Direct From Your Grocery Aisle

March 26, 2010

With 110 transparent plastic food containers filled with leaves, branches, and a lighting source, “Packaged Vertical Gardens” climb the walls in Madrid, an urban vertical garden installation as commentary on the scarcity of available public green space.

In seeking to … Read More…

Holland’s Green Light District

February 14, 2010

Things are looking up in this green Dutch town. In a mainly pedestrian street adjacent to a shopping mall in Eindhoven, one of the greenest cities in the Netherlands, design firm BYTR suggested that public space be cleared of lampposts … Read More…

Edible Urban Landscapes Replace Front Lawns

November 4, 2009

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The Lenape Edible Estate in front of the Hudson Guild in Manhattan was created by Fritz Haeg to provide a view back into the lives of the native Lenape people–how they lived off the land from the native edible plants … Read More…

Up on a Green Roof in Panorama

November 3, 2009

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Chicago freelance photographer Victor Zaveduk shot this panorama photo of the green roof atop Chicago’s City Hall. I spotted the image on a Virtual Reality Photography (VR Photography) site, http://www.panoramas,dk, created by Danish photographer Hans Nyberg.  Zaveduk has … Read More…

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