Urban Gardens

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-proclaimed “urban hacktivist”– reinvents and diverts public spaces … Read More...

The Greenhouse on the roof of Public School 333 in Manhattan. Photo: Ari Burling

A 1400-square-foot smart and sustainable hydroponic urban farm sits on the third-floor rooftop of a New York City public school. It’s home to The Greenhouse Project, … Read More...

I noticed when I was last in Paris that most, if not all, public parks and urban gardens in that city offer free wifi. Kyle Daevel’s inflatable PVC Nomadic Knowledge Worker Environment and Chair, according the the Chicago designer,”questions the … Read More...

Organizer, Sean Martindale’s intervention.

Within a 24-hour period between Saturday May 20th and Sunday May 21st, 2011, a group of 17 Toronto based artists, designers, gardeners and urbanites collaborated to create unique planter “interventions” of throughout the city in a … Read More...

Say you just happen to have a couple of extra old Magnavox and other old record player “horns” lying around. Why not transform them into planters like these? That’s what the folks at Fine Garden Art have done with them … Read More...

Brooklyn Grange believes roofs are ideal urban farm sites with potential to feed, employ, educate and unite communities

Take a group of local food enthusiasts, mix in some serious fundraising, add over 45 pounds of donated pork from Brooklyn-based Heritage … Read More...

Take a virtual spin through this urban environmental art installation, to be experienced, not just viewed and admired. With LEDs embedded in the cobbled surface below that bathe a steel plate suspended eight meters high by thin poles, the glow … Read More...

Among the many handmade treasures currently on view at The One of a Kind Show in New York, Nature’s Creations natural jewelry and art spoke to me not just for is beauty, but for the way it captures genuine organic … Read More...

Solar One, New York City’s first solar-powered “Green Energy, Arts, and Education Center” that inspires New Yorkers to become environmentally responsible city dwellers, presents SOLAR 2: The First Carbon-Neutral, Net-Zero Energy Building in New York City. Construction is set to … Read More...

100 billion individual disposable pieces of plastic cutlery, according to some sources, are used and disposed of each year around the globe. In a landfill, these plastic utensils can take an estimated 500-1000 years to break down into smaller components.… Read More...