An Eco-Friendly Solution For Small Space Gardening: The City Garden

August 17, 2016

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Looking for an easy way to grow a garden on a balcony, deck, or in any sunny spot you’ve got? Scroll down to enter our contest for a chance to win “The City Read More...

Fiskars Grant Feeds Starvin’ Marvin in Alaska

August 13, 2016

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The Fiskars Project Orange Thumb 
community garden initiative provides groups across the U.S. and Canada with the tools, materials, and resources they need to bring their garden plans to life.

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One of this year’s recipients, The Takshanuk Watershed Council in Read More...

Functional and Fashionable Lamp Doubles as a Planter

August 12, 2016

lamp doubles as a planter

I love double duty and multi-functional designs, and a lamp doubling as planter is kind of a no-brainer since plants need light. Lighting and plants are a symbiotic pairing that can be both fashionable and functional, stylish and sustainable.

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A Lego Up on 3D-Printed Bird House

August 11, 2016

3D-Printed Bird House

Is 3D-printed architecture for the birds? It is now. The organic branch-like facade of Bird House is based on Cairo pentagonal tiling, a pattern that appears in many Islamic decorative designs and on the streets of Cairo.

3D-Printed Bird House

Bird House combines … Read More...

Pavilion of Roses That Bloom With Light

August 10, 2016

Pavilion of RosesAnimated GIF by David Simon from architect’s images.

Monaco-based Russian designer, architect, futuristic designer, and writer, Vasily Klyukin dreams up some spectacular “out-there” concepts. It’s no wonder that he once wrote a sci-fi novel about a society ruled by artificial Read More...

Holy Cow! The World’s First Floating Urban Dairy Farm

August 9, 2016

Floating Urban Dairy Farm

The Netherlands is reinventing urban dairy farming. By January 2017, the port city Rotterdam will be home to the world’s first Floating Dairy Farm

Floating Urban Dairy Farm

With the rapidly rising world population and land scarcity in mind, the Dutch companies behind … Read More...

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